A screenshot from Casablanca showing Humphrey Bogart and Helmut Dantine. It's been 80 years since the Hollywood classic Casablanca opened nationwide. Set at Rick's Cafe, a nightclub in the Moroccan ...

Time now for a home viewing recommendation from NPR's movie critic, Bob Mondello. He's found himself swept up this week by the 70th Anniversary edition boxed set ofCasablanca . Even if you don't know ...

Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet and the black bird. It's a fun water-cooler question, and Warner Home Video has chosen shrewdly: "The Treasure of Sierra Madre" (1948) and ...

“You must remember this…” Calling Casablanca a classic is something of an understatement. It’s the machinery of Hollywood in the 40’s at its pinnacle. It’s got great direction from Michael Curtiz, a ...

Peter Lorre, 59, Hungarian-born actor whose deceptively mild manner and low-pitched voice made him one of motion pictures’ favorite villains, died in Hollywod March 23 of a stroke. Lorre has recently ...

Peter Lorre could simultaneously creep you out and inspire sympathy. Boris Karloff remained a movie star when he was pushing 80 and could barely walk. Island of Doomed Men $17.95 (DVD), Sony Pictures ...

A product of Berlin's post World War I experimental theatre scene, Peter Lorre honed his craft in plays by Shakespeare, Goethe and Shaw, but achieved international fame as a child killer in Fritz Lang ...