it's ironic
I know a lot has been written about M. Sometimes horror film books use on the cover the shot of Lorre seeing the letter M in the mirror on the back of his coat.
It's kind of strange that one of Peter Lorre's greatest performances came so early in his career.
Another great Lorre film is The face behind the mask, which I have seen called "the greatest B movie of the 1950s."
If you like spoofs, Karloff, Price, and Lorre are hilarious in a movie called The Raven. I have heard that some of Peter Lorre's best lines in that movie were ad libs.
As the evil wizard, Karloff hated wearing that heavy cloak. (I read that in Famous Monsters of Filmland.)
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