The Verdict (Warner Bros.) (1946)

Still No. SG 55 SUBSTANTIALLY different is the new role essayed by Sydney Greenstreet (above), erstwhile screen bad man, who now dons the mantle of law and order as a Scotland Yard inspector in "The Verdict," Warners’ current hit drama at the Strand. Peter Lorre and Joan Lorring co-star with him in the story which Reader's Digest called the most baffling ever written. MAT 2F Nostalgia Comes To Warners As Gamera Records Melodrama An ancient horse-drawn streetcar, relic of the Gay Nineties, sees service again in Warners’ new mystery film, “The Verdict,” now } at the Strand. } Powered, more : or less, by two aged gray mares, it rumbles down the cobblestone | street transporting bustled and be-feathered ladies dressed in the style of 1890. Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Joan Lorring are starred in the new film drama. Peter Lorre MAT 1B before his first “take.” the new lines on the set. Greenstreet, instead. Star Asks: What's One More Category To Busy Film Lot? Peter Lorre has added a new department to the many special ones which go into the making of any film. During the filming of Warner Bros.’ “The Verdict,” in which he currently co-stars with Sydney Greenstreet and Joan Lorring at the Strand, Peter Lorre stood patiently while the lights were adjusted and the camera was focused. Then the wardrobe men gave the actor’s suit a brushing once over lightly, a makeup man powdered the shine off his face, and a property man handed him a lighted cigarette. Finally, Lorre checked his script for the last time, then turned to director Don Siegel and announced: “The face-making department is ready now!” Sydney Greenstreet’s Habit Of Being Prepared Proves Lucky On Set Of Warners’ ‘The Verdict’ Sydney Greenstreet, currently co-starring with Peter Lorre and Joan Lorring in Warners’ “The Verdict,” now at the Strand, is one of the few actors in Hollywood who learns his dialogue perfectly The actor always commits his entire role to memory before the film goes before the cameras. If there is any rewriting, he memorizes Recently, during shooting on “The Verdict,” when Peter Lorre fell ill, director Don Siegel lost no time in his production schedule because he was able to substitute other, still unscheduled scenes with wei Smmeiewsuase No One seated during q the Chmax 0 ne ui « THE VERDICT (SEE SPECIAL 1-SHEET ON PAGE 2) 10 Mother-Daughter Once, Now Only Screen Strangers Joan Lorring and Rosalind Ivan, the cockney mother-daughter combination of “The Corn is Green,” are cast together again in Warners’ new mystery film, “The Verdict,” currently at the Strand. In the new screen drama which co-stars Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Miss Lorring, the actress again assumes a cockney accent for her role of a London music hall entertainer. Miss Ivan, in the new picture, portrays a middleclass English landlady who enjoys tippling a bit of grog. Although unrelated in their current film, the pair again do some vicious tongue lashing, reminiscent of their first appearance together when Joan Lorring was. the vivacious, precocious daughter of Rosalind Ivan, a comical light-fingered housemaid who’d been “saved.” Veterans Of Stage Revive Old Times At Warner Studio Memories of Broadway were relived recently. by Sydney Greenstreet and Felix Jacoves when the two men met on the set during the filming of Warner Bros.’ “The Verdict,” currently at the Strand. Greenstreet co-stars in the mystery film with Peter Lorre and Joan Lorring. The pair first met in 1935 when Jacoves was stage managing Helen Hayes’ play, “Victoria Regina,” in New York. At the theatre next door, Sydney was playing the German doctor in “Idiot’s Delight.” The bombing sequence in “Idiot’s Delight” made it impossible for the audience to hear Miss Hayes’ dialogue in her play. So Jacoves instituted a running marathon between the two theatres each night, timing the performances so that the bombing occurred in one play during the intermission of the other, When the pair finally met in Hollywood, it was actually the first time Jacoves was able to sit down and have a long conversation with Greenstreet. Still No. 655-17 Matter Of Murder Still No, 655-56 PETER LORRE shows only a dubious interest in pert Joan Lorring in the above scene from Warner Bros.’ exciting new mystery drama, "The Verdict," now playing at the Strand. Concerned with an urgent matter of life—and sudden death—the film also stars Sydney Greenstreet. MAT 2A Life Supplies Heroine’s Kole To Warner Actress Joan Lorring, who has yet to portray a heroine’s role on the screen, inadvertently became a heroine in real life recently. It happened when the Warner Bros. actress was vacationing in La Jolla with her mother before checking into the studio for her role in “The Verdict,” the mystery drama in which she is currently co-starring with Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre at the Strand. On the last day of her vacation she was taking an early morning stroll along the deserted beach when she heard a plaintive ery for help. Running toward the sound, she saw a youngster of five fully clothed, being tossed around by the waves near the shore. Joan waded into the shallow water and got the boy to shore just as his nurse came running down to the water. “TO LIFE—AND SUDDEN DEATH!" So goes the unspoken toast as Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre (above), master bad men of films, engage in an exciting battle of wits in The Verdict," Warners’ new mystery drama at the Strand. Co-starred in the film with them is Joan Lorring. MAT 2D The boy had been left alone for a few minutes while the nurse went to the hotel for towels. The boy had wandered into the water and one of the waves had caught him unaware. Joan and the nurse dried off the boy who was more scared than hurt, and redressed him before the mother found out about the near tragedy. ‘Fat Man’ Shrinks Substantially For Sake Of Film Role Sydney Greenstreet gave his all and then some for his art during the filming of Warners’ “The Verdict,” in which he is currently co-starring with Peter Lorre and Joan Lorring at the Strand. On the hottest day in a decade, the Warner “Fat Man” was at work for a scene in an office in Scotland Yard; The time was supposed to be mid-winter. Greenstreet’s wardrobe was a heavy tweed suit, a winter topcoat, hat and gloves. As the heat simmered up into the nineties, the actor had to stand in front of a real fireplace and pretend to warm his chilled hands. Greenstreet not only did his best acting to make the scene believable, but he sweated off one and a quarter pounds in the attempt. Something New In Film Angles At Warner Bros. Warner Bros. photographer Ernie Haller developed a brand new camera angle—the worm’s eye view—for a scene in that studio's new mystery, “The Verdict,” the Sydney Greenstreet-Peter Lorre-Joan Lorring starring film now at the Strand Theatre. In the sequence being filmed, a grave was being reopened by order of Scotland Yard. To achieve the proper eerie effect, Haller had the motion picture camera lowered into the grave on slings. Then as Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet and George Coulouris peered into the excavation, he filmed the trio from a worm’s angle.