The Junkyard

Sometimes actors are so good, people actually believe they are the characters that the play. This photo is from the movie M directed by Fritz Lang - pretty suspenseful! Peter Lorre is widely known for portraying his roles as villains in Classical Hollywood Films.

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Peter Lorre in M (1931, dir. Fritz Lang) Entire film can be seen on Internet Archive here.

“My trouble is that I try to cover a part entirely. When you do there’s the danger that the patron will leave the theatre feeling that you are so perfectly suited to the character he has just seen that he can’t imagine you in any other part. Mothers with children ran from me in the street. Terrible letters came to me. Letters came from strange people; people who I never believed lived in the world; depraved and disturbed minds, thinking they saw in me the perfect companion, a fellow psychopathic. A success can be too great, I tell you.”

-Lorre, on playing the role of compulsive child murderer, Hans Becker, in M