Oklahoma Film Critics Circle

James Vance: Think Fast Mr. Moto

In the movies, no one has ever personified The Outsider better than Peter Lorre. His baby-faced murderer (and perhaps worse) of children in M, his flamboyantly insane surgeon in Mad Love, his alternately melancholy and ruthless burn victim forced into a life of crime in The Face Behind the Mask, his sinister effeminate soldier of fortune in The Maltese Falcon … It’s hard to name another actor of his day (or since) capable of equaling those performances in such a variety of outre roles; it’s utterly impossible to name anyone who could have done them better.

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