Walking Overcoat

by David English

Poster for The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

“I did insist on having Peter Lorre. He had just done M with Fritz Lang and this was his first British role. He had a very sharp sense of humor. They called him ‘the walking overcoat’ because he went around in a long coat that came down to his feet.”

— Alfred Hitchcock, interviewed in 1962 by Françoise Truffaut

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