Mr. Moto and the chandelier

Movie
German title	Mr. Moto and the chandelier
Original title	Mysterious Mr. Moto
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1938
length	61 minutes
Rod
Director	Norman Foster
script	Philip McDonald Norman Foster
production	20th Century Fox Sol M. Wurtzel
music	Samuel Kaylin
camera	Virgil Miller
cut	Norman Colbert
occupation
Peter Lorre : Mr. Kentaro Moto Mary Maguire : Ann Richman Henry Wilcoxon : Anton Darvak Erik Rhodes : David Scott-Frensham Harold Huber : Ernst Litmar Leon Ames : Paul Brissac Forrester Harvey : Georg Higgins Frederick Vogeding : Gottfried Brujo Lester Matthews : Sir Charles Murchison John Rogers : Sniffy Karen Sorrell : Lotus Liu Mitchell Lewis : Nola
synchronization

Mr. Moto and the Chandelier (Original Title: Mysterious Mr. Moto ) is a 1938 crime film directed by Norman Foster . This is the fifth film in the eight-part series about the Japanese detective Mr. Kentaro Moto portrayed by Peter Lorre . They are all based on the Mr. Moto short stories by John P. Marquand .

action

Mr. Moto had himself thrown into the Devils Island prison in order to befriend a murderer belonging to the League of Assassins and then to flee with him. The aim of this action is to find the head of the association. Mr. Moto succeeds in becoming the murderer's personal servant. The journey now goes to London, where an inventor is to be moved to give up his pacifist ideals by means of murders and threats.

background

In the film, Mr. Moto also pretends to be an old German artist who vehemently opposes the surrealist works presented in an exhibition and, as an alternative, presents a picture that appeals to very conservative tastes; the year before the film premiere, the exhibition Degenerate Art organized by the National Socialists opened in Munich . In the original version of the film, Lorre speaks several sentences and exclamations ("To puke!") In German in the said scene.

Reviews

The Lexicon of International Films writes: “The fifth part of the crime series is increasingly based on the atmosphere of" film noir "; still convincing: Peter Lorre. "

Web links

• Mr. Moto and the chandelier in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mysterious Mr. Moto in the IMDb
2. ↑ Mr. Moto and the chandelier at two thousand and one