Mr. Moto in Danger Island (1939)

Mr. Sutter: [referring to the mysterious Puerto Rican swampland] You see, it isn't just ghosts you have to contend with but the suspicions of a dangerously ignorant people.

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Kentaro Moto: You've been a great help, and I want to thank you.
Twister McGurk: I wanna thank you too, pal. That hold yuh showed me I'm gonna keep in my wretlin' "prepatory."

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Capt. Dahlen: [as Moto lays in pain on a gurney] Well, Mr. Moto, you picked a bad time to get afflicted.
Kentaro Moto: [Marr sadistically presses his foot on Moto's appendix] Unfortunately we cannot select a time for our afflictions.

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The original script was a Charlie Chan murder mystery titled "Charlie Chan at Trinidad" to star Warner Oland. However, due to Oland's untimely death, the entire script was re-written in only a few weeks to star Peter Lorre as his Mr. Moto character.
Last of Fox's eight "Mr. Moto" features starring Peter Lorre, but actually the seventh to be released (though completed two months earlier, Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation was issued last). This was also the second "Mr. Moto" entry (after Mr. Moto's Gamble) that was originally written as a "Charlie CHan" script (and both entries were the only ones not directed by Norman Foster). The character returned only once, in a low-budget, black-and-white second feature produced in England, The Return of Mr. Moto, starring Henry Silva.
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