Mr. Moto's Gamble (1938)
TRAGEDY STRIKES THE ARENA AS FISTIC CHAMPIONS FALL BEFORE UNSEEN GLOVES!
Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-blooded murder! Assisted by detective-in-training Lee Chan, Moto sets out to track down the killer based on a single ominous clue: a poisoned boxing glove! But when Moto's hunch points to a corrupt gambling syndicate, he's forced to wager his very life to unmask the culprit—or go down for the count...permanently!
- Date of release
- 1938-04-07
- TMDB
- 6.4 / 10 (22)
- Runtime
- 1h 12m
- Genres
- Mystery, Comedy, Crime
- Director
- James Tinling
- Collection
- Mr. Moto Collection
Casting
- Peter Lorre — Kentaro Moto
- Keye Luke — Lee Chan
- Dick Baldwin — Bill Steele
- Lynn Bari — Penny Kendall
- Douglas Fowley — Nick Crowder
- Jayne Regan — Linda Benton
- Harold Huber — Lieutenant Riggs
- Maxie Rosenbloom — Horace 'Knock-Out' Wellington
- John Hamilton — Philip Benton
- George E. Stone — Jerry Connors
- Bernard Nedell — Clipper McCoy
- Charles Williams — Gabby Marden
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