#ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

[poinsettiapavilion]

I wish the guy next door would just jerk off loudly at 5am instead of yapping

[frogmuse]

"All through the night"

[queenmabcreates]

Today is my 2nd anniversary of posting on AO3! To celebrate my never ending love of David & Patrick, here’s my first ever attempt at creative writing.

[peterlorrefanpage]

Peter Lorre in "All Through the Night"

I could not resist making this set (even though there's a sharper gif out there via @peterlorrelove) because -

Darling man Peter Lorre ❤❤❤

The way he looks down at his cigarette in the second one is as alluring as that little nod and finger curl he does in the first one

I am perfectly normal about all this

It's perfectly reasonable to want to be what he's holding

[likeslatwrry]

Love this look from All Through The Night

[faustiandevil]

So I watched All Through the Night (1942) again, because it’s someone’s birthday, and also because it’s been a while and the most I remember from that movie was that it was gangsters vs. nazis (and yes Peter played a nazi, but I still stand by that my dick could fix him, I could fix Pepi, jot that down), which did actually happen in real life, except there was a small teensy little thing that the movie doesn’t seem to really mention or even hint at. The gangsters that attacked the American Volksbund members were Jewish.

Now I’m currently reading Michael Benson’s “Gangsters vs. Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in WW2 Era America”, which is another reason why I wanted to rewatch the movie, and while I’m only halfway through the book, the only instance I’ve read about non-Jewish people taking part in the attacks was in Newark and even then it was poor working class men, who got laid off from the factories and sympathized with their Jewish neighbors knowing very well that they were also living in the slums and not controlling the banks from behind the scenes as the right-wingers likes to claim. It’s even more baffling considering that in Minnesota for instance the banks even refused to hire Jewish people. Kind of hard to control something from the inside when you can’t even work there.

The movie also takes place in New York, where Meyer Lansky with the blessings of Judge Perlman and Rabbi Stephen Wise (I would like to mention that Wise was born in Budapest, but as he was a Zionist I refuse to acknowledge him as a Hungarian) was literally beating the shit out of the nazis. Lansky also refused to take outsider help, and to quote the man himself: "I am a Jew, and I feel for the Jews in Europe who are suffering. They are my brothers.", so why the movie couldn’t have hinted at that. I feel like the argument can be made that they are just “gamblers” and not gangsters, but come on man, we all know who were behind the gambling joints, these guys needed something else to bring in the money after Prohibition ended. Or that they are Jewish, you just gotta squint real hard… But why cast Mr. Hardboiled Detective Bogus in the main role then, when you actually have people who have had to run from the nazi threat. There are Jews and queers in the cast fucking use them. I feel it’s a missed opportunity not to have had a switcheroo with the casting list and have Conrad Veidt and Peter Lorre in the good guy gangster/gambler roles. Imagine how ecstatic they’ve would been to beat up nazis even if acting is just making faces and play pretend.

Anyway this is my galaxy-brain hot take on the movie.

[soapkaars]

Some agenda doodles of Peter Lorre as Bugsy Siegel during the time he was recruited by Judge Perlman to go fight Nazis with other gangsters in their own territories while thinking about how All Through the Night could be remade

[raurquiz]

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[noirgasmweetheart]

Lorre's Cat Café: Pepi

A breathtakingly beautiful sociopath, Pepi hunts for sport. He neither eats his prey nor delivers it as a present to anyone; he just leaves mutilated mice, pigeons and bunnies where he kills them.

He will rub against your leg purring loudly, then abruptly bite or scratch for no reason at all. He attacks the other cats in much the same manner. He enjoys picking on the smalker cats like Polo, Leyen and Einstein, and making Ugarte freak out.

It goes without saying that he knocks breakables off shelves and steals food from the other cats while they're in the middle of eating. He wreaks havoc and destruction all through the night.

He's a completely irredeemable monster. We keep him because he's so elegantly beautiful, and so funny to watch when eating popcorn (his favorite food).

[frogmuse]

Photo de promotion pour le film All through the night

[lavaa-baby]

[technicolorfamiliar]

Technicolor Familiar Watches Too Many Conrad Veidt Movies Part 3 of ?

Part 1 // Part 2

Anders als die Andern (Different From the Others), 1919 Dir. Richard Oswald ⭐4/5 Watched Nov 15, Archive.org It really breaks my heart that so much of this film was lost and destroyed, and that the story is unfortunately still relevant 100+ years later. Maybe I don't have as much to say about this one because it's so chopped up, and because it's already been written and talked about so much. I am glad it seems to have found its proper place in literature/content about LGBTQ+ history, getting the acknowledgement it deserves. Despite already knowing so much about the movie from various books, podcasts, and documentaries, I was still very affected by the story and performances, especially towards the end. It really hit a nerve, surprisingly so. Connie's Paul is really lovely, tragic, and so sweet with Kurt.

Jew Süss, 1934 Dir. Lothar Mendes ⭐3.5/4 Watched Nov 26, Youtube There's something about the structure and the hazy, dreamy quality of the film itself that makes this seem like a fable. There are parts that are deeply upsetting and chilling despite the mediocre supporting cast. It's imperfect, but definitely did a lot more than other films to create complex and sympathetic Jewish characters in the 1930s (even if still playing on stereotypes). I'm a total sucker for 18th century opulence and fashion so I can’t complain much. And oh boy, does the 18th century suit Connie. He knows how to work the lace and silk to great affect. Some of the things he's doing as Josef are really fascinating and gut-wrenching. He's doing so much vocally, too. He's in an entirely other class compared to many actors of that era. P.S. The scenes with Josef and his mother and daughter were, uh, interesting. I have… mixed feelings.

Rome Express, 1932 Dir. Walter Forde ⭐3/5 Watched Nov 26, Youtube My expectations were pretty low for this one based on some things I'd read online, but it's a cute if slightly baffling train thriller with an ok-ish ensemble. I'm a little biased, my inner child fuckin loves trains so any train movie is at least going to be semi-enjoyable. I was so stressed the whole time about how everyone was handling that apparently very expensive painting. Connie is so extra, though. Why is Zurta eating a banana as soon as he jumps onto a moving train? Why does he hold a gun like ~that~? Why are his fingernails so long?? It's so funny seeing him next to all these tiny British actors. It may partly be how they dressed him for the role, but he makes everyone else look positively shrimpy.

All Through the Night, 1942 Dir. Vincent Sherman ⭐3/5 Watched Nov 27, Vudu Once I finally leaned into how silly this movie was, it was pretty entertaining. The dialogue alone is so stupid, but self aware of how stupid it is. And it features one of my favorite gags of all time: making up gibberish words for technical terms with complete confidence. There's a dog. (Question: Is the dog a nazi like the monkey in Raiders of the Lost Ark? Does the dog know it's complicit in war crimes??) Peter Lorre looks like he'd rather be anywhere else. Mrs. Danvers is there. Some of the visual comedy is actually pretty great -- the dog in the boat at the end when Connie is being totally deadpan serious? Hysterical. (DID THEY BLOW UP THAT DOG?) I think this was the first time I've heard Connie speak German, too.

The Spy in Black, 1939 Dir. Michael Powell ⭐3.5/5 Watched Nov 27, Youtube Interesting that the main character, the person carrying this British movie in the late 1930s, is a German U-boat captain. But wow. I'm obsessed. Hardt's entrance into the hotel? Baa-ing at the sheep? The delicious gluttony with food? Dragging the stupid motorbike up the stairs to his room? "It is evening. And I am grown up."?? We love a sexy, honor driven character like Captain Hardt. Therefore, Valerie Hobson going for the British officer seems totally unlikely and unbelievable. I think I like this movie marginally better than Dark Journey, as far as espionage films go. It's slightly more engaging (but that may be Connie and Valerie Hobson's chemistry) and the story is a little better.

[peterlorrefanpage]

Peter Lorre & Stairs

Stranger on the Third Floor (1940):

Mr. District Attorney (1941):

All Through the Night (1942):

(Dying on steps like a crumpled cat still counts.)

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944):

Black Angel (1946):

Obliquely, I suddenly recalled a line from The Bishop's Mantle (by Agnes Sligh Turnbull, 1947 - read it here) where Lexa, the young bishop's firecracker of a wife, refers to one of the parishioners as being in a very fast crowd - "it really steps!"

So now I'm conflating Peter Lorre on stairsteps as symptomatic of him really steppin'.

We'll close with just one more (because I Arsenic and Old Laced myself out of space) -

Columbia photoshoot (1935):