Mysterious Mr. Moto (1938)
Peter Lorre gives you your greatest thrill
The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.
- Date of release
- 1938-09-17
- TMDB
- 6.2 / 10 (21)
- Runtime
- 1h 2m
- Genres
- Mystery, Thriller, Crime
- Director
- Norman Foster
- Collection
- Mr. Moto Collection
Casting
- Peter Lorre — Mr. Moto
- Mary Maguire — Ann Richman
- Henry Wilcoxon — Anton Darvak
- Erik Rhodes — David Scott-Frensham
- Leon Ames — Paul Brissac
- Forrester Harvey — George Higgins
- Frederick Vogeding — Gottfried Brujo
- Lester Matthews — Sir Charles Murchison
- Jimmy Aubrey — Newsboy
- May Beatty — Woman at Police Station
- Reginald Barlow — Policeman
- Billy Bevan — Customs Official
Interesting facts
Mysterious Mr. Moto, produced in 1938 by Twentieth Century Fox, is the fifth in a series of eight films starring Peter Lorre as Mr. Moto.
Production
Henry Wilcoxon replaced Michael Whalen in the cast. It was an early Hollywood role for Australian actor Mary Maguire.
Filming took place in March and April 1938, shortly after completion of Mr Moto's Gamble.
During filming Peter Lorre, as Moto, impersonated a seventy-year-old German painter.
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