6/10
The Steel Trap
11 September 2015
Warning: Spoilers
****SPOILERS*** International crime fighter Mister Moto, Peter Lorre goes under cover as an escaped murderer from Devil's Island with his cell-mate Paul Brissac, Leon Ames, to infiltrate Brissac league of Assassins. It's the Assassins who are targeting Czech industrialist Anton Darvak, Henry Wilcoxon, for death in him not playing ball with them. Darvak had developed this super steel formula that he's keeping it to himself not wanting it to fall into the wrong hands in case a war breaks out somewhere on the globe. Threatened with death if he doesn't give the league the formula Darvak fluffs the threats off until his good friend Lord Gilford, Sam Harris,, is killed in a truck, that crushed him, accident. That as a warning to him to give up the steel formula to those war mongering international gangsters that the League is working for.

Mr. Moto who's now Brissac's manservant got all the information in what's planned for Darvak and all by himself tries to prevent it from happening. As it turns out Darvak is to be set up for elimination at the London Art Gallary by the head of the League of Assassins,????, who's in fact a close friend of his. This has Mr. Moto, who by then found out what's going down, try to prevent that from happening by going undercover as a German art critic. And by doing that have the man planning to do Darvak in get done in, with a 500 pound chandelier landing on his head, instead.

***SPOILERS*** With his cover as an escaped murderer as well as manservant blown Mister Moto's life is now in danger of being snuffed out by the league of Assassins that has him use his acrobatic and martial skills to put them out of business. Even after the big man,???, was put out of action with a super splitting, caused by the 500 pound chandelier, headache Mister Moto had his hands full with Brissac who just had to finish the job that he at first started; To kill Anton Darvak on the orders of his now deceased boss the had man of the Assassion League. It was a futile effort on his part in that Mister Moto put Brissac away, with his martial art fighting skills, without as much as breaking out in a sweat in the knock down and drag out free for all he had with him at the end of the film.
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