a Sydney Greenstreet marathon ON TCN Tuesday

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kind of a Sydney Greenstreet marathon on Turner Classic Movies Tuesday December 17th. Sydney is one of my all time favorite "menacing villains" in films from the 1940&#x27;s. worked quite often with  Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor and Peter Lorre. I&#x27;ve got the old VCR ready because there are three of his films I have NEVER seen (all start times are pacific)@ 3:00am / Across the Pacific (1942) WWII spy thriller with Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor 6:00pm / The Conspirators (1944} another spy thriller with Hedy Lamarrm, Paul Henreid and Peter Lorre (my first viewing)10:00am / Passage to Marseille (1944) WWII war movie with Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains and  Peter Lorre (my first viewing)12:00pm / Background to Danger (1943) another WWII spy thriller with George Raft and Peter Lorre (my first viewing)1:30pm / Casablanca (1942) does this classic REALLY need an introduction ??? Sydney in the small but interesting roll of Signor Ferrari featuring Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid with the great German actor Conrad Veidt AND (of course) Peter Lorre3:30pm / The Maltese Falcon (1941) this "film noir" classic was Sydney&#x27;s film debut as the scheming Kasper Gutman for which he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. features Humphrey Bogart,  Mary Astor and (once again) Peter LorreENJOY

LeRinkRat · Answer

kind of a Sydney Greenstreet marathon on Turner Classic Movies Tuesday December 17th. Sydney is one of my all time favorite "menacing villains" in films from the 1940&#x27;s. worked quite often with  Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor and Peter Lorre. I&#x27;ve got the old VCR ready because there are three of his films I have NEVER seen (all start times are pacific)@ 3:00am / Across the Pacific (1942) WWII spy thriller with Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor 6:00pm / The Conspirators (1944} another spy thriller with Hedy Lamarrm, Paul Henreid and Peter Lorre (my first viewing)10:00am / Passage to Marseille (1944) WWII war movie with Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains and  Peter Lorre (my first viewing)12:00pm / Background to Danger (1943) another WWII spy thriller with George Raft and Peter Lorre (my first viewing)1:30pm / Casablanca (1942) does this classic REALLY need an introduction ??? Sydney in the small but interesting roll of Signor Ferrari featuring Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid with the great German actor Conrad Veidt AND (of course) Peter Lorre3:30pm / The Maltese Falcon (1941) this "film noir" classic was Sydney&#x27;s film debut as the scheming Kasper Gutman for which he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. features Humphrey Bogart,  Mary Astor and (once again) Peter LorreENJOY

The Hawk · Answer

"Gutman" and he&#x27;s fat as he**...............Oldest nominated in his first picture, I believe....

LeRinkRat · Answer

of the three I had never seen before I liked Background to Danger (1943) the best because it was "spy stuff" with Greenstreet as British turncoat Colonel Robinson working for the Nazis to try and undermine Turkish neutrality. George Raft plays Joe Barton an American agent posing as an oil equipment salesman trying to undo the scheme along with Russian agents Nikolai Zaleshoff played by Peter Lorre and his sister Tamara played by Brenda Marshall. Sydney at his "menacing" best. had excellent suspense and good action most of the way thru

Passage to Marseille (1944) the more famous of the three I never viewed before was kind of a "cookie cutter" WWII drama where Greenstreet plays a pompous azz of a French major with his usual nastiness. I thought the plot was rather convoluted with all it's "flash backs" BUT at least now I know where the basic idea for the escape from Devil's Island Steve McQueen movie Papillon (1973) came from

The Conspirators (1944) a pretty good "escape from the Nazi's" movie with Greenstreet in a very different roll for him as an underground resistance leader in Lisbon, Portugal trying to uncover the traitor in their group. pretty well acted by all involved with good suspense and Hedy Lamarr was one of the great beauties of 1940's film

a Sydney Greenstreet marathon ON TCN Tuesday

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