#Crack-Up

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1950s promo card for telecast of "Crack-Up" (a 1936 film).

[gracefuldisasters]

Peter Lorre

My new favorite actor ヽ (°◇° )ノ

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[angelamontoo]

Which Peter Lorre characters do you think are most likely to bite people and under what circumstances? Rn I think the best contenders for biters are The general, Gimpy and maybe Cairo

•THM ofc would bite someone mostly for fun and just as part of his general(heh heh) weirdness. I think if he's in a fight, he's too capable with weapons and possibly some kind of raw cunning to need to rely on biting to defend himself, although I also wouldn't be surprised to learn that hes bitten off someone's nose, face, fingers and/or other extremities in the past

•The Barron doesn't take as much joy in it, but I think he definitely would bite someone while he was putting on the Gimpy act. Usually only if they bothered him, but if he doesn't like someone, he'd probably use the act as an excuse to walk up to them out of nowhere and bite them(Ace Martin has definitely been nipped a few times). I dont think he'd be likely to bite someone in a fight. Again, he's typically too capable with weapons to need to rely on his teeth and even if he was unarmed I feel like he might see biting as a rather undignified strategy, at least in a fight with someone who knew his true identity

•Cairo is the most self conscious about how quick he'd be to bite someone. He finds it just as undignified as The Barron, but he's also a criminal who's pretty physically weak and not that much better with weapons so he's definitely bitten people in self defence before(if he hasn't bitten o Shaughnessy at least twice I'd be shocked). I also think if he was close enough with someone and they were OK with it, he'd bite someone playfully in a RAWR kind of way, but he'd never admit he does it to anyone else

[the-light-is-dim]

LITERALLY who was going to tell me that “if you need to, keep time on me” is about the 2016 election and how am i just learning that now

[kooldewd123]

i saw a sub/dub comparison of this scene on youtube years ago and it has refused to leave my mind ever since so i'm recreating it here since i can't find the original video anymore

[hinamie]

mentor

[rae-arachne]

equal and opposite reactions to watching saw for the first time

[sandushengshou]

Interview with the Vampire | 2x08 “And That's The End of It. There's Nothing Else”

[arkangelo-7]

Lex Luthor hates Superman, Lex Luthor hates the Justice League, bla bla bla… You know who Lex must really hate? Bruce Wayne.

Because he knows that bitch is Batman. He’d worked it through that big brain of his and he’s without a doubt certain that the same idiot who spilled champagne on him last New Year’s Eve moonlights as the Batman.

But he can’t fucking prove it. So he’s resigned to a lifetime of having to make stilted conversation filled with double meaning while Brucie just flutters his eyelashes and pretends to be a ditz. And Lex just has to sit there and take it, because Bruce knows that Lex knows and absolutely uses that knowledge to fuck with Alex at every opportunity—he says the absolute shittest, godawful pickup lines and flirts to his heart’s content, knowing full well that he helped Superman kick Lex’s ass last week and that Lex knows it was him.

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Such an adorable capture of Peter Lorre as Colonel Gimby in "Crack-Up" (1936).

Below: Just a lil guy brushing his hair, what could be wrong with that?

[hinata-boke]

why is his smile so radiant

[payasita]

being a manager sucks balls half the time but the cashier kids im in charge of trust me enough to dick around in front of me so ive been keeping a running list of the shit they say that makes me laugh randomly: -"guys, is it cheating if you play fortnite with your ex" [4 seperate others, immediately]: "YES" -"there must be like… infinite sentences" -"bro what bro what the fuck bro what's that mean bro why'd you say that bro what" <distraught response to a girl randomly greeting him with 'hey there big boy' in an old timey transatlantic news reporter accent

[principiumindividuationis777]

There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that this film influenced The Usual Suspects (1995).

[angelamontoo]

Crack-up(1936) Directed by Malcolm St Clair

One of Peter Lorres most underrated films and characters. He gets top billing, which I find pretty cool, especially since he's billed quite low on some of the others I've talked about so far despite his characters having equal or greater importance to their respective films plot

Of the movies I've talked about today, it probably has the least noteworthy cast other than Lorre to me personally, but by no means a bad one.

A lot of people seem to strongly dislike Brian Donlevy as Ace Martin, but I enjoy him in the role and think he has a pretty fun dynamic with Peter Lorre. Ralph Morgan also gives a wonderful, understated performance as John R. Fleming, who keeps up his state of sorrow throughout the film, even in scenes where John is both silent and sharing the screen with a character played by known scene stealer, Peter Lorre