Think Fast, Mr. Moto

1937 film by Norman Foster

Think Fast, Mr. Moto is a 1937 film about a freighter going from San Francisco to Shanghai where a Japanese detective solves a mystery caused by a gang of smugglers.

Directed by Norman Foster. Written by Philip MacDonald and Norman Foster, based on the 1925 novel Your Turn, Mr. Moto by John P. Marquand.
Meet.... MR. MOTO the foxiest detective of them all!  (taglines)

Kentaro Moto

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  • Half the world spends its time laughing at the other half, and both are fools.

Dialogue

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Bob Hitchings: Now I know who you are! You're the Japanese Sandman.
Kentaro Moto: [shakes head] Strange people, these Americans.

Bob Hitchings: Stanford, '34.
Kentaro Moto: Stanford, '21; honorary member.
Bob Hitchings: What do you know about that! Moto, '21, let's see... oh, I remember reading about you. You broke a pole-vault record, didn't you?
Kentaro Moto: Now I would only break the pole.

Bob Hitchings: Are you hurt?
Kentaro Moto: No, thank you. Only a slight mishap.
Bob Hitchings: Gee, I thought sure we were gonna kill somebody.
Kentaro Moto: Mr. Moto is a very difficult fellow to kill.

Taglines

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  • Meet.... MR. MOTO the foxiest detective of them all!

Cast

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