Another journey into the realm of the strange and terrifying.

I hope you will enjoy the trip, that it will thrill you a little and chill you a little.

So settle back. Get a good grip on your nerves.

Where are we going? You'll find out when we get there.

What is up, everybody. Welcome back to the podcast. So glad that you are here. All right. So being the Christmas season that it is,

and seeing as Christmas is really sneaking up on us, I wanted to air two or three plays that have

a sort of Christmas theme to them. And so the one that I'm going to air today is a play called Back for Christmas.

And this was adapted from the short story of the same name by John Collier.

Now, both suspense and escape did this play.

And so the version of the play that we are going to be looking at today

is one from suspense starring Mr. Peter Lorry.

Peter Lorry was born in Hungary. He was educated in elementary and secondary schools in Vienna, Austria. As a youth, he ran away from home, worked as a bank clerk,

and after stage training in Vienna, made his acting debut in Zurich.

He remained unknown traveling for several years in acting in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, until Fritz Long cast him as the psychopathic child killer in M of 1931.

After several more films in Germany, Peter Lorry left as the Nazis came to power.

He went to Paris, London, and in 1935 he went to power. He went to Paris, London, and in 1935, he went to Hollywood. He played Roskalnikov in

crime and punishment in 1935 and a series of Mr. Motto movies during the late 30s. He began his pairing with Sydney Green Street as

Joel Cairo in the Maltese Falcon of 1941, continued in Casablanca of 1942, and seven other

films during the early 1940s. He died from a stroke the year he made his last

movie playing a stooge in Jerry Lewis's The Patsy of 1964. His death date was March 23rd,

1964 at the age of 59.

All right, everybody.

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