Mr. Moto's Gamble (1938) |
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| Director(s) | James Tinling |
| Producer(s) | John Stone, Sol M. Wurtzel (uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Crime, Drama, Mystery |
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Peter Lorre(as Kentaro Moto)
Mr. Moto's Gamble
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1938
Mr. Moto's Gamble
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1938
Peter Lorre
(as Kentaro Moto)
Keye Luke(as Lee Chan)
Mr. Moto's Gamble
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1938
Mr. Moto's Gamble
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1938
Keye Luke
(as Lee Chan)
Lynn Bari(as Penny Kendall)
Mr. Moto's Gamble
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1938
Mr. Moto's Gamble
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1938
Lynn Bari
(as Penny Kendall)
Douglas Fowley(as Nick Crowder)
Mr. Moto's Gamble
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1938
Mr. Moto's Gamble
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1938
Douglas Fowley
(as Nick Crowder)
Harold Huber(as Lieutenant Riggs)
Mr. Moto's Gamble
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1938
Mr. Moto's Gamble
Released
1938
Harold Huber
(as Lieutenant Riggs)
George E. Stone(as Jerry Connors)
Mr. Moto's Gamble
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1938
Mr. Moto's Gamble
Released
1938
George E. Stone
(as Jerry Connors)
Ward Bond(as Biff Moran)
Mr. Moto's Gamble
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1938
Mr. Moto's Gamble
Released
1938
Ward Bond
(as Biff Moran)
Lon Chaney Jr.(as Joey)
Mr. Moto's Gamble
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1938
Mr. Moto's Gamble
Released
1938
Lon Chaney Jr.
(as Joey)
Mr. Moto's Gamble Overview:
Mr. Moto's Gamble (1938) was a Crime - Mystery Film directed by James Tinling and produced by John Stone and Sol M. Wurtzel.
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Mr. Moto's Gamble Quotes:
Nick Crowder:
Who pulled the strings to get this fight on tonight?
Kentaro Moto: I plead guilty, Mr. Crowder. You see, some people save strings; I pull them.
Kentaro Moto: I plead guilty, Mr. Crowder. You see, some people save strings; I pull them.
Penny Kendall:
Oh, Scotty, if you'll turn me loose on this, I'll have this town so deep in tears that they'll be using canoes for taxicabs.
Nick Crowder:
Clipper, you'd suspect your own grandmother!
Clipper McCoy: Yeah, but you're not my grandmother.
Nick Crowder: Don't bet on it!
Clipper McCoy: Yeah, but you're not my grandmother.
Nick Crowder: Don't bet on it!
Kentaro Moto:
To recognize one's faults requires intelligence; to admit them requires courage.
Kentaro Moto:
[examining the dead body] This is not suicide Mr. Riggs.
[dryly]
Kentaro Moto: It's most unusual to shoot oneself in the back and without a gun.
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Kentaro Moto: It's most unusual to shoot oneself in the back and without a gun.
Mr. Moto's Gamble Facts
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A tribute to Warner Oland appears in Mr. Moto's Last Warning, the next film in the Moto series. During the movie's production in August 1938, cast and crew learned of Oland's passing in his native Swedan (five months after the completion and release of "Mr. Moto's Gamble"). Over the title "Charlie Chan in Honolulu", on the bill of the Sultana Theatre of Variety, they placed the banner "Last Day".
While talking to Lee Chan, Harold Huber as Lt. Riggs refers to working with Lee's father Charlie before. In Charlie Chan on Broadway Huber did, playing another New York policeman
The only non-Chan film to feature Keye Luke's 'Lee Chan' character, and the last at Fox. Luke would play Lee twice more, in Monogram's final two CHANS, The Feathered Serpent and The Sky Dragon.
Begun as a Charlie Chan film ("Charlie Chan at the Ringside"), but upon difficulties between 20th Century-Fox and Chan star Warner Oland, the script was hastily rewritten to accommodate Fox's other Asian sleuth, Mr. Moto. The presence of Chan's son Lee is evidence of the grafting of one movie onto another series. Though it has been reported that Oland's death was the cause for this change from Chan to Moto, it is not the case. This film was released theatrically on 3/25/38, and Oland did not die until August 6th of that same year.