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Mr. Moto Takes a Chance is a american film of genre Drama directed by Norman Foster released in USA on 24 june 1938 with Peter Lorre
Mr. Moto Takes a Chance (1938)
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Add to a movie listMr. Moto Takes a Chance is the fourth in a series of eight films starring Peter Lorre as Mr. Moto, although it was the second one actually filmed, following Think Fast, Mr. Moto.
The film is based on the character of Mr. Moto created by John P. Marquand, and an original story by Norman Foster and Willis Cooper.
Synopsis
Over the ruins of Angkor Wat in Cambodia we see the airplane Victoria Mason, aviatrix, flying around the globe. But her actual destination is the kingdom of Tong Moi in French Indochina. Already in Tong Moi, Mr. Moto is posing as an archeologist, and newsreel cameramen Marty Weston and Chick Davis are traveling up the river. Once she is overhead, Mason lights a flare and bails out of her smoking plane which crashes nearby. Rescued by Moto, Mason goes into the village with Bokor the head priest of Shiva. As Weston and Davis arrive at the crash site, Moto has discovered the flare that “caused” the accident.Actors
Peter Lorre
(Mr. Moto)
Rochelle Hudson
(Victoria 'Vicki' Mason)
Robert Kent
(Marty Weston)
J. Edward Bromberg
(Raja Ali)
Chick Chandler
(Chick Davis)
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