Mr. Moto and the fleet

Movie
German title	Mr. Moto and the fleet
Original title	Mr. Moto's Last Warning
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1939
length	71 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 Ricardo Cortez : Fabian the Great Virginia Field : Connie Porter John Carradine : Danforth Teru Shimada : The wrong Moto-san George Sanders : Eric Norvel Joan Carroll : Mary "Marie" Delacour Margaret Irving : Madame Delacour Robert Coote : Rollo Venables Leyland Hodgson : Captain Bert Hawkins John Davidson : Hakim

Mr. Moto and the fleet (Original title: Mr. Moto's Last Warning ) is an American crime film from 1939 by Norman Foster in the eight-part series about by Peter Lorre shown Japanese detective Mr. Kentaro Moto . The films are all based on John Phillips Marquand's Mr. Moto stories .

action

The British Army has information that its planned maneuvering exercises with the French Navy near Port Said suggest hostile action. Mr. Moto should get to the bottom of the matter. Officially, Mr. Moto arrives in Port Said in a passenger ship; he is betrayed and murdered by one of the conspirators, Norvel. It turns out that the Mr. Moto on board the ship was a friend of the real Mr. Moto, who pretended to be the notorious criminalist. The real Mr. Moto quickly finds a lead that leads to Norvel and a ventriloquist artist, Fabian the Great. He discovers that a British agent, Burke, has infiltrated the conspiratorial group. But Fabian the Great also stays alert and murders Burke. He also realizes that Mr. Moto is still alive. But his attempts to murder the real Mr. Moto are unsuccessful.

Trivia

The fake Mr. Moto is played in this film by a real Japanese, Teru Shimada, who was later seen in the James Bond film James Bond 007 - You Only Live Twice (1967) as SPECTER agent Mr. Osato.

When the scene changes back to the Sultana Theater towards the end of the 48th minute of the film, its program is faded in. The film Charlie Chan in Honolulu can then be found as an Easter Egg . The Charlie Chan series can be described as a model for the Mr. Moto films. The program also names Warner Oland as the lead actor in the Charlie Chan film . The film was actually shot after Olands death in August 1938 with his successor Sidney Toler .

Web links

• Mr. Moto and the fleet in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Mr. Moto and the fleet at Rotten Tomatoes (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mr. Moto's Last Warning in the IMDb