Quotes from Mr. Moto's Gamble (1938)
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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!
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Douglas Fowley
in
Mr. Moto's Gamble
(1938)
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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.
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Peter Lorre
in
Mr. Moto's Gamble
(1938)
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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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Peter Lorre
in
Mr. Moto's Gamble
(1938)
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Kentaro Moto:
Much information can be obtained from tongues loosened in anger.
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Peter Lorre
in
Mr. Moto's Gamble
(1938)
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Kentaro Moto:
There is no situation that science and skill cannot master.
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Peter Lorre
in
Mr. Moto's Gamble
(1938)
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Kentaro Moto:
To recognize one's faults requires intelligence; to admit them requires courage.
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Peter Lorre
in
Mr. Moto's Gamble
(1938)
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Lieutenant Riggs:
[frustrated] Medium height, medium build, medium complexion - I'd have to be a medium to find Howard from the description like that Detroit tailor gives me!
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Harold Huber
in
Mr. Moto's Gamble
(1938)
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Lieutenant Riggs:
A sock in the eye ain't homicide. Maybe his ticker went bad on him. Who knows?
Kentaro Moto: No one... except the coroner.
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Peter Lorre
in
Mr. Moto's Gamble
(1938)
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Lee Chan:
Gosh, that's a pretty girl sitting with your friend!
Lieutenant Riggs: That's his daughter Linda. She's got her nose so high in the air, she'd drown in a rainstorm.
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Harold Huber
in
Mr. Moto's Gamble
(1938)
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Lee Chan:
Oh, Mr. Moto?
Kentaro Moto: Yes, Lee? Lee Chan: I though you would like to know I got a letter from Pop yesterday. Kentaro Moto: Oh, you did? Lee Chan: Mm-hmm. He sent his best to you. Kentaro Moto: Thank you. And, uh, how is your honorable father enjoying his homelife in beautiful Honolulu? Lee Chan: He seems fine, but he kind of worries about me. Y'see, I'm really supposed to be studying art here at the university... but gosh, I want to be a detective! Kentaro Moto: [chuckles] I understand. My parents wanted me to be an acrobat.
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Peter Lorre
in
Mr. Moto's Gamble
(1938)
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