1. Day 21: Dream Cast (with pictures)

    Remember in the last question how we were like uhhhhh welllllll there’s sort of a lot of logistical issues with this whole potential film adaptation thing

    Yeah that hasn’t gone away

    Initially we were like no, this is uncastable

    But then we found a few solutions to our problem:

    Doctorow is this guy

    not Mads Mikkelsen, but specifically Mads Mikkelsen in that movie, plus eyepatch


    Maria is Louise Brooks


    this picture of Paul Dano as Ireneo


    this particular picture of Rupert Graves

    would sort of look like Herr Inspektor if he were blond and German and had less intense eyes


    Rainer is definitely not Tom Hiddleston, sorry to our one reader who really wants him to be Tom Hiddleston but he is just not the right guy

    Rainer could possibly be Tilda Swinton


    Jemand would also have to be Tilda Swinton


    we would accept a large, German George Sanders as Althausen


    Farley Granger could be Alma in the genderbent version maybe


    Kyoya from Ouran High School Host Club is the only person we would accept for Klein


    obviously Conrad Veidt is Cesare


    and Gwyn too, actually


    actually nevermind, Starring Conrad Veidt as Everyone


    with Peter Lorre as Himself

    oh and Ibsen is this cat right here



    Yeah, so, maybe this film adaptation idea isn’t so impossible after all??? oh wait

     
  2. Plays: 40

    From a live performance of Addicted to Bad Ideas, World/Inferno’s genius of a frontman Jack Terricloth does the best impression of Peter Lorre ever. The recording is a little jumpy sometimes, but it’s well-worth listening to. Unfortunately tumblr made us trim the whole ending off because the file was too large, and we lost a beautiful segment where he recites a poem by Brecht. If anyone wants to hear the full version, e-mail us and we’ll send it to you.

     
  3. M (1931), dir. Fritz Lang. The role that set Peter Lorre on the deserved path to fame. Our story predates it a little, but we wanted to include it here as evidence that Peter Lorre is the shit and obviously had to have a cameo.

     
  4. Plays: 0

    Opening number from The World/Inferno Friendship Society’s Peter Lorre themed circus punk opera, Addicted to Bad Ideas.

     
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    Peter Lorre als Barkassy in Karl Kraus’ Die Unüberwindlichen
dir. Karl Heinz MartinPremiere auf Volksbühne, Theater am Bülowplatz, 20 Oct 1929

    Peter Lorre als Barkassy in Karl KrausDie Unüberwindlichen

    dir. Karl Heinz Martin
    Premiere auf Volksbühne, Theater am Bülowplatz, 20 Oct 1929

     
  6. Peter Lorre und Lotte Lenya als Moritz und Ilsein Frank Wedekind’s Frühlings Erwachen
dir. Karl Heinz MartinPremiere auf Volksbühne, Theater am Bülowplatz, 14 Oct 1929

    Peter Lorre und Lotte Lenya als Moritz und Ilse
    in Frank Wedekind’s Frühlings Erwachen

    dir. Karl Heinz Martin
    Premiere auf Volksbühne, Theater am Bülowplatz, 14 Oct 1929