turned up in the Warner Archive. It wouldn't surprise me to see the other three follow suit in time. A disappointing fate. TCM Archives: The Sydney Greenstreet & Peter Lorre Collection ( Background to Danger , The Mask of Dimitrios , The Conspirators , Three Strangers , The Verdict ) - A true odd couple of the screen, Greenstreet and Lorre seemed to share little more than a remarkable gift for screen presence. The former was English, quite large physically, and a latecomer to film, making his debut at the age of 62 as Kasper Gutman in The Maltese Falcon . Lorre, a Hungarian, was diminutive in stature and in his mid-twenties when Fritz Lang's M gained international attention for the actor. Their best known pairings are probably Falcon and Casablanca , but Warner Bros. put them in another five pictures together without Humphrey Bogart (plus Passage to Marseille with Bogie). Of those, Background to Danger is a George Raft vehicle directed by Raoul Walsh and The Conspirators stars Hedy Lamarr and Paul Henreid. It's really the other three, where Greenstreet and Lorre were front and center, that warrant such a box set. The Mask of Dimitrios is delightfully strange and noirish while Three Strangers is a John Huston-penned tale of weary souls undone by their own flaws, a theme more familiar to Huston than director Jean Negulesco. The Verdict , which was Don Siegel's feature directing debut and can be obtained from the Warner Archive's burn-on-demand program, takes our