Borserie it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

kapelusznik18 ****SPOILERS*** International crime fighter Mister Moto, Peter Lorre goes under cover as an escaped murderer from Devil's Island with his cell-mate Paul Brissac, Leon Ames, to infiltrate Brissac league of Assassins. It's the Assassins who are targeting Czech industrialist Anton Darvak, Henry Wilcoxon, for death in him not playing ball with them. Darvak had developed this super steel formula that he's keeping it to himself not wanting it to fall into the wrong hands in case a war breaks out somewhere on the globe. Threatened with death if he doesn't give the league the formula Darvak fluffs the threats off until his good friend Lord Gilford, Sam Harris,, is killed in a truck, that crushed him, accident. That as a warning to him to give up the steel formula to those war mongering international gangsters that the League is working for.Mr. Moto who's now Brissac's manservant got all the information in what's planned for Darvak and all by himself tries to prevent it from happening. As it turns out Darvak is to be set up for elimination at the London Art Gallary by the head of the League of Assassins,????, who's in fact a close friend of his. This has Mr. Moto, who by then found out what's going down, try to prevent that from happening by going undercover as a German art critic. And by doing that have the man planning to do Darvak in get done in, with a 500 pound chandelier landing on his head, instead.***SPOILERS*** With his cover as an escaped murderer as well as manservant blown Mister Moto's life is now in danger of being snuffed out by the league of Assassins that has him use his acrobatic and martial skills to put them out of business. Even after the big man,???, was put out of action with a super splitting, caused by the 500 pound chandelier, headache Mister Moto had his hands full with Brissac who just had to finish the job that he at first started; To kill Anton Darvak on the orders of his now deceased boss the had man of the Assassion League. It was a futile effort on his part in that Mister Moto put Brissac away, with his martial art fighting skills, without as much as breaking out in a sweat in the knock down and drag out free for all he had with him at the end of the film.

zetes Of all the yellowface performances I've ever seen from classic Hollywood, Peter Lorre's Mr. Moto strikes me as the least offensive. The only times the character comes off as too stereotypical are when Mr. Moto is trying to trick dumb white people into thinking he's an ignorant heathen. Most of the time he's exceedingly intelligent, a Japanese Sherlock Holmes. He even has a couple of action sequences (apparently the audiences at the time ate up the Judo stuff). Lorre's just great in the role. The rest of the cast here is fine, too (the most recognizable actors are Henry Wilcoxon and Erik Rhodes). The Asian detective character was extremely popular at the time, the most famous of them being Charlie Chan (there's also Boris Karloff's Mr. Wong). I'm planning to take in a Charlie Chan and Mr. Wong film (n.b. I did end up watching Mr. Wong, Detective afterward, and it was pretty good, too) just for comparison. I also plan on watching all the other Mr. Moto films available to me. I love Lorre and very much enjoyed this film.

bkoganbing Interpol's best agent Moto Kentaro is undercover at the beginning of Mysterious Mr. Moto as a notorious prisoner on Devil's Island. Peter Lorre does an arranged breakout from the island with Leon Ames the head of an international syndicate of assassins. In Brooklyn on a more local level it was called Murder Inc.Lorre attachs himself to Ames to work as his Japanese houseboy the better to get a line on the group. A bunch of them are in London to carry out a contract on Czech steel magnate Henry Wilcoxon unless he coughs up a new manufacturing formula he's developed. Wilcoxon does not take kindly to threats so Lorre has his work cut out for him.International politics gets jumbled considerably as Moto has a Chinese girl confederate here played by Karen Sorrell. And of course he's treated badly when he's in the notorious Limehouse district by the locals and rather condescendingly by Scotland Yard.I will say this though. It's rather obvious after a while who the real ringleader is, but if you look at the cast credits you won't figure it out because of the roles this player done.Peter Lorre is on top of his game, the film though has not stood the test of time.

classicsoncall It's interesting that this movie had a Scotland Yard connection, one might have expected Sherlock Holmes to make an appearance. Mr. Moto (Peter Lorre) assumes the identity of a Japanese houseboy to Parisian criminal Paul Brissac following their escape from a Devil's Island prison camp. Once situated in London, Moto begins his investigation into an international 'League of Assassins', who have targeted industrialist Anton Darvak (Henry Wilcoxon) for his newly developed steel formula.Moto manages to dodge Scotland Yard detectives as well as nasty League henchmen in order to uncover the head of the assassins. In one of those films where the least likely character turns out to be the criminal mastermind, you have to wonder why Frensham (Erik Rhodes) allowed himself to be positioned under the murder weapon, hostage to Moto in one of his many disguises. Say, didn't he remind you of Arte Johnson's dirty old man character from 'Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In"?Now just over half way through watching the Mr. Moto films, I'm impressed as to how consistently better they seem to be compared against those of the other Oriental detective of the era, Charlie Chan. The Chan stories relied on repeated use of the old lights out trick and other ruses on the way to solving the mystery, whereas the Moto stories are a lot more physical, even violent, with Moto engaging in a fair share of the action. In this one, Moto delivers some crisp judo throws and takes some wild flying leaps tackling bad guy Brissac in the finale. Elsewhere on this board I learned that Lorre's stuntman for the martial arts sequences was a gentleman named Harvey Parry.Even though they're nearly seventy years old, it's still a kick to watch any of these old time detective mystery films. Peter Lorre is a blast as Mr. Moto, and any movie in the series from Twentieth Century Fox is recommended for fans of the genre.