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== Filmography == {|class="sortable wikitable" |- !class="unsortable"|Title !class="unsortable"|Star !class="unsortable"|Director !class="unsortable"|Released !class="unsortable"|Plot !class="unsortable"|Notes !class="unsortable"|Distributor |- |''[[Think Fast, Mr. Moto]]'' |rowspan=8 |[[Peter Lorre]] |rowspan=2 |[[Norman Foster (director)|Norman Foster]] |rowspan=2 |1937 |Mr. Moto works to stop a secret smuggling operation.<ref>{{cite news|title=Think Fast, Mr. Moto|work=Monthly Film Bulletin|location=London|volume=4|issue=37|date=Jan 1, 1937|page=149}}</ref> |Based on Marquand's novel of the same name.<ref>{{cite web|title=Think Fast, Mr. Moto|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/113307/Think-Fast-Mr-Moto/overview|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130906175531/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/113307/Think-Fast-Mr-Moto/overview|url-status=dead|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=[[The New York Times]]|author=Hal Erickson|author-link=Hal Erickson (author)|archive-date=2013-09-06}}</ref> |rowspan=9 |[[20th Century Fox]] |- |''[[Thank You, Mr. Moto (film)|Thank You, Mr. Moto]]'' |In disguise again as a Mongolian trader in the [[Gobi]] desert, Moto makes his way to [[Beijing|Peking]] where he tries to obtain ancient scrolls that lead the way to the treasure of [[Genghis Khan]]. At the end, he fulfills an obligation to his dying friend and destroys the scrolls so no one can ever violate the treasure. |Marquand wrote the screenplay, loosely based on his [[Thank You, Mr. Moto (novel)|novel of the same name]]. |- |''[[Mr. Moto's Gamble]]'' {{small|(aka ''Mr. Moto's Diary'')}} |James Tinling |rowspan=3 |1938 |Moto is now famous enough as a detective to be giving a class in criminology in San Francisco. While at a boxing match, Moto is drawn into a murder investigation. |Originally intended for the [[Charlie Chan]] series starring [[Warner Oland]]; re-written to make it a Moto film, but [[Keye Luke]], as Chan's son Lee, remained. |- |''[[Mr. Moto Takes a Chance]]'' |rowspan=3 |Norman Foster |Undercover as an archeologist in [[Thailand]], Moto is trying to learn who is heading a revolutionary army smuggling guns and explosives into the tiny village of Tong Moi. |rowspan=3 |Original story. |- |''[[Mysterious Mr. Moto]]'' |Posing as a Japanese murderer, Moto escapes from [[Devil's Island]] with a member of the League of Assassins to find out not only who is their next victim but to identify the mysterious man at the top. |- |''[[Mr. Moto's Last Warning]]'' |rowspan=3 |1939 |In [[Port Said]], [[Egypt]], Moto tries to stop the French Naval Fleet from being destroyed by secret agents bent on starting a war between the British and the French. |- |''[[Mr. Moto in Danger Island]]'' |[[Herbert I. Leeds]] |Diamond smugglers are working out of [[Puerto Rico]] and Moto is sent to investigate and discover their secret lair. |Based on the novel ''[[Murder in Trinidad (novel)|Murder in Trinidad]]'' by [[John W. Vandercook]] |- |''[[Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation]]'' |Norman Foster |While pretending to be vacationing in San Francisco, Moto is actually keeping an eye on the crown of the [[Queen of Sheba]], surefire bait for the master thief known as Metaxa. |rowspan=2 |Original story. |- |''[[The Return of Mr. Moto]]'' |[[Henry Silva]] |[[Ernest Morris]] |1965 |Moto leaves his Hawaiian home to solve a case in London involving an ex-Nazi.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Return of Mr. Moto|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/107681/The-Return-of-Mr-Moto/overview|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130906175452/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/107681/The-Return-of-Mr-Moto/overview|url-status=dead|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=[[The New York Times]]|author=Sandra Brennan|archive-date=2013-09-06}}</ref> |}
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