This week, Thomas and Colin watch the 1946 American film noir mystery drama film, The Verdict.
Thomas does Art. Colin notes that "This isn't a Science Podcast."

Sydney Greenstreet was born in 1879. The Silent Motion Picture Era is generally recognized as being between 1894 to 1929. The Jazz Singer (1927) is recognised as the first "talking" motion picture, and within only a few years "talkies" were the default. So Sydney Greenstreet, at 62, waited 14 years after Talkies kicked off before acting on film in The Maltese Falcon (1941, so FIVE years prior to the Verdict). The great silent film actor, producer and director Charlie Chaplin was the big Talkie hold out; he didn't make a talking film until The Great Dictator (1940).
It seems that my hunch was right; Peter Lorre (born László Löwenstein) is, indeed, pronounced "Peter Lorre".

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