Interpol's best agent Moto Kentaro is undercover at the beginning of Mysterious Mr. Moto as a notorious prisoner on Devil's Island. Peter Lorre does an arranged breakout from the island with Leon Ames the head of an international syndicate of assassins. In Brooklyn on a more local level it was called Murder Inc.
Lorre attachs himself to Ames to work as his Japanese houseboy the better to get a line on the group. A bunch of them are in London to carry out a contract on Czech steel magnate Henry Wilcoxon unless he coughs up a new manufacturing formula he's developed. Wilcoxon does not take kindly to threats so Lorre has his work cut out for him.
International politics gets jumbled considerably as Moto has a Chinese girl confederate here played by Karen Sorrell. And of course he's treated badly when he's in the notorious Limehouse district by the locals and rather condescendingly by Scotland Yard.
I will say this though. It's rather obvious after a while who the real ringleader is, but if you look at the cast credits you won't figure it out because of the roles this player done.
Peter Lorre is on top of his game, the film though has not stood the test of time.
Lorre attachs himself to Ames to work as his Japanese houseboy the better to get a line on the group. A bunch of them are in London to carry out a contract on Czech steel magnate Henry Wilcoxon unless he coughs up a new manufacturing formula he's developed. Wilcoxon does not take kindly to threats so Lorre has his work cut out for him.
International politics gets jumbled considerably as Moto has a Chinese girl confederate here played by Karen Sorrell. And of course he's treated badly when he's in the notorious Limehouse district by the locals and rather condescendingly by Scotland Yard.
I will say this though. It's rather obvious after a while who the real ringleader is, but if you look at the cast credits you won't figure it out because of the roles this player done.
Peter Lorre is on top of his game, the film though has not stood the test of time.