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- Mr. Moto is a fictional Japanese secret agent created by the American author John P. Marquand. He appeared in six novels by Marquand published between 1935 and 1957.
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Mr. Moto is a fictional Japanese secret agent created by the American author John P. Marquand. He appeared in six novels by Marquand published between 1935 and 1957.
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A fake Mr. Moto (Teru Shimada), working for the real one, meets his demise before Mr. Moto can upset a plot designed to start a war between France and Britain. The film features Ricardo Cortez as Fabian the Great, a ventriloquist (and saboteur).
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The film opens with Mr. Moto in disguise as a street salesmen and selling goods to passers-by. He sees a man leaving a shop with a tattoo of the British Flag on his arm. Moto enters the shop to sell a rare diamond to the owner. However, Moto sees a body stuffed into a wicker basket in the store, and using his mastery of judo takes down the shopkeep...
Think Fast, Mr. Moto was the third novel in the Moto series. Film rights to the novel were bought in July 1936. It was originally a story That Girl and Mr Moto. The novel was not published until May 1937.
Development
Mr Moto had been introduced to readers in the 1935 novel No Hero. It was popular and was followed by Thank You, Mr Moto in 1936 and then Think Fast, Mr Motoin 1937. Twentieth Century Fox had three film series at the time – Charlie Chan, the Jones Family, and the Jeeves movies – and thought Mr Moto would make an ideal hero of a film series along the lines of Charlie Chan. In July 1936 Fox announced that they had bought the film rights to Think Fast, Mr Moto and Kenneth MacGowan would produce.M...
Shooting
Filming started February 11, 1937.
The film was well liked at Fox and in April 1937 (several months before the film had been released to the public) the studio announced they would make five more Moto movies. The studio said they did not want to make the mistake of the Jeeves films with Arthur Treacherand vowed to provide good production values "to make them first string entertainme...
The film was released in August 1937. The New York Times called it a "horse anchor on that pony plodder of pictures" but thought Lorre was well cast. The Chicago Tribunesaid "the action is snappy and unpredictable. Dialog's to the point and direction, staging and photography are commendable.""
This film, along with Thank You, Mr. Moto, Mr. Moto Takes a Chance and Mysterious Mr. Moto, was released on DVD in 2006 by 20th Century Fox as part of The Mr. Moto Collection, Volume One.
Think Fast, Mr. Moto at Faded Page(Canada)Think Fast, Mr. Moto at the American Film Institute CatalogThink Fast, Mr. Moto at IMDbMr. Moto in Danger Island 1939, 64 min. Herbert I. Leeds • Starring: Peter Lorre , Jean Hersholt , Amanda Duff Crime • Detective Film • Mystery
Apr 10, 2015 · Mr. Moto, a fictional Japanese detective, achieved mass popularity through a series of 1930s films starring Peter Lorre. Moto was the creation of successful writer John P. Marquand (1893–1960), whose novels depicted a Japanese international spy quite different from the genial Mr. Moto of film.
May 12, 2007 · This radio series seems to take the character from the films but uses the intrigue of the books. Moto acts a little more like Charlie Chan with his wise proverbs, but the stories are drastically different. In the above files, "The Dead Land" is a duplicate of "The Kuriloff Papers."
