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Mr. Moto's Gamble

Mr. Moto's Gamble

  • Status: Released
  • 07-04-1938
  • Runtime: 72 min
  • Score: 6.2
  • Vote count: 19

Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-blooded murder! Assisted by detective-in-training Lee Chan, Moto sets out to track down the killer based on a single ominous clue: a poisoned boxing glove! But when Moto's hunch points to a corrupt gambling syndicate, he's forced to wager his very life to unmask the culprit—or go down for the count...permanently!

Peter Lorre

Kentaro Moto

Keye Luke

Lee Chan

Dick Baldwin

Bill Steele

Lynn Bari

Penny Kendall

Douglas Fowley

Nick Crowder

Jayne Regan

Linda Benton

Harold Huber

Lieutenant Riggs

Maxie Rosenbloom

Horace 'Knock-Out' Wellington

John Hamilton

Philip Benton

George E. Stone

Jerry Connors

Bernard Nedell

Clipper McCoy

Charles Williams

Gabby Marden

Ward Bond

Biff Moran

Cliff Clark

Tom McGuire

Eddie Marr

Sammy (as Edward Marr)

Lon Chaney Jr.

Joey

Irving Bacon

Sheriff Tuttle (Uncredited)

Stanley Blystone

Policeman

Don Brodie

Ticket Seller

Mike Mazurki

Bit Part (Uncredited)

Paul Fix

Gangster (Uncredited)

Olin Howland

Deputy Sheriff Burt (Uncredited)

Dick Elliott

Kansas City Gambler (Uncredited)

Pierre Watkin

District Attorney (as Pierre Watkins)

George Chandler

Boxing Spectator (Uncredited)

Charles D. Brown

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CinemaSerf

Certainly, there is something of the Charlie Chan about this engaging little mystery. Peter Lorre (complete with his studious-looking round spectacles) is the eponymous detective required to investigate the poisoning of an heavyweight boxer - mid fight. There are no absence of suspects - so "Mr. Moto" has his work cut out for him. It's a fun film, no menace, very little suspense - just a good effort from the star with a workmanlike cohort of familiar faces to support or antagonise him, and a decent standard of production and writing to pass 75 minutes. It won't strain your "little grey cells", but is worth a watch.