Mr. Moto's Last Warning
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Norman Foster
Peter Lorre
Ricardo Cortez
Virginia Field
John Carradine
George Sanders
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Fabian, the leader of a spy ring, plots to disrupt the peaceful relations between England and France by blowing up the French fleet as it steams through Port Said in the Suez Canal. Although Fabian is posing as a ventriloquist to hide his sinister activities, British agent Burke has infiltrated the ring under the alias of Danforth, and has warned the French of imminent danger. Consequently, the arrival of the fleet has been delayed. Meanwhile, Mr. Moto, an agent of the International Police who is masquerading as an antique dealer, is also trying to uncover Fabian's plot. After ordering Eric Norvel, one of his men, to trick the admiral's wife, Madame Delacour, into revealing the arrival date of the fleet, Fabian discovers that Danforth is a British agent, then disposes of him by cutting Danforth's lifeline on the diving bell into which he is submerged near the site of the explosives. Thus Fabian cleverly makes it seem as if the British are responsible for the sabotage. Becoming suspicious of the antique dealer, Fabian orders his girl friend, Connie Porter, to follow him. Connie's report confirms Fabian's suspicions that the antique dealer is Mr. Moto, and Fabian orders that he be killed, but Moto cleverly escapes. As the fleet steams into port, Fabian readies to give Norvel the signal to detonate the explosives, but Moto intercepts Norvel and sets off the explosives before the fleet can reach port. Fabian then tries to kill Moto himself, but his attempt is cut short when Connie, who has discovered his treachery, shoots him.
Director
Norman Foster
Cast
Peter Lorre
Ricardo Cortez
Virginia Field
John Carradine
George Sanders
Joan Carol
Robert Coote
Margaret Irving
Leyland Hodgson
John Davidson
Teru Shimada
Georges Renavent
E. E. Clive
Holmes Herbert
C. Montague Shaw
George Humbert
Jacques Lory
Denis D'auburn
Eric Wilton
Jimmy Aubrey
Lal Chand Mehra
Victor Metzetti
Bert Roach
Jack Perry
A. R. Bogard
Wayne Rivers
Daniel Boone
Al Wesslen
H. W. Stroele
Robert F. Owens
Neil Fitzgerald
Crew
William H. Anderson
Doug Biggs
Jasper Blystone
M. Braggins
Norman Colbert
Lewis Creber
Charles Faye
Norman Foster
Tad Gillum
Lorry Haddock
Bernard Herzbrun
L. V. Johnson
Samuel Kaylin
Thomas Little
Philip Macdonald
V. L. Mcfadden
Virgil Miller
F. Mime
Phillip Moore
Roger Murphy
Helen A. Myron
Emmet O'brien
George Peckham
Fred Phillips
Walter Poggi
Harry Roberts
Sandy Sandeen
Sam Schneider
Walter [m.] Scott
Freddie Stoos
Jean Thomas
Helen Torres
E. Clayton Ward
Jack Warren
William Whitley
Dan Wurtzel
Sol M. Wurtzel
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
The theatre programme outside the Sultana Theatre includes Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938), with a "Last Day" notice pasted over it.
Notes
The working titles of this film were Mr. Moto No. 6, Winter Garden and Mr. Moto in Egypt. A Hollywood Reporter production chart adds Virginia Bruce to the cast, but she was not in the released film. According to materials contained in the Twentieth Century-Fox Records of the Legal Department at the UCLA Theater Arts Library, Miles Mander was originally cast as Danforth. For additional information about the series, please consult the entry below for the 1937 film Think Fast, Mr. Moto.
