Mr. Moto's Gamble (1938) | |
| Director(s) | James Tinling |
| Producer(s) | John Stone, Sol M. Wurtzel (uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Crime, Drama, Mystery |
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Mr. Moto's Gamble (1938) was a Crime - Mystery Film directed by James Tinling and produced by John Stone and Sol M. Wurtzel.
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Kentaro Moto:
To recognize one's faults requires intelligence; to admit them requires courage.
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!
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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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!
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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Facts about
While talking to Lee Chan, Harold Huber as Lt. Riggs refers to working with Lee's father Charlie before. In Charlie Chan on Broadway Huber did, playing another New York policeman
The fourth Moto to be produced (Jan-Feb 1938), and the third to be released (Mar 25 1938).
Begun as a Charlie Chan film ("Charlie Chan at the Ringside"), but upon difficulties between 20th Century-Fox and Chan star Warner Oland, the script was hastily rewritten to accommodate Fox's other Asian sleuth, Mr. Moto. The presence of Chan's son Lee is evidence of the grafting of one movie onto another series. Though it has been reported that Oland's death was the cause for this change from Chan to Moto, it is not the case. This film was released theatrically on 3/25/38, and Oland did not die until August 6th of that same year.
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The fourth Moto to be produced (Jan-Feb 1938), and the third to be released (Mar 25 1938).
Begun as a Charlie Chan film ("Charlie Chan at the Ringside"), but upon difficulties between 20th Century-Fox and Chan star Warner Oland, the script was hastily rewritten to accommodate Fox's other Asian sleuth, Mr. Moto. The presence of Chan's son Lee is evidence of the grafting of one movie onto another series. Though it has been reported that Oland's death was the cause for this change from Chan to Moto, it is not the case. This film was released theatrically on 3/25/38, and Oland did not die until August 6th of that same year.
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