Mr. Moto in Danger Island
Cast & Crew
Herbert I. Leeds
Peter Lorre
Jean Hersholt
Amanda Duff
Warren Hymer
Richard Lane
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Mr. Moto, accompanied by Twister McGuirk, a wrestler who has apprenticed himself to the famous detective in order to learn his jiu jitsu tricks, arrives in Puerto Rico on the trail of a diamond smuggling ring. After the murder of a secret agent, Moto follows a trail of clues that leads him to a sinister swamp, a reputed haunting grounds for ghosts. When the governor of the island is slain in the same manner as the agent, Moto and Twister return to the swamp, where they are captured by the smugglers, who have appropriated the pond as their hideout. While a prisoner, Moto discovers that the diamonds are being smuggled inside of coconuts, and after accumulating enough evidence to indict the smugglers, the detective and his apprentice escape to the mainland. Moto returns to the smugglers' hideout, accompanied by the police and Sutter, the head of the diamond dealers, but they arrive just in time to see the head of the ring speed away in his boat. Sutter takes aim and shoots the criminal, and the wounded man is taken to the hospital. That night, an attempt is made on the man's life, but Moto emerges from the shadows just in time to unmask the murderer as Sutter, the real head of the smugglers. After explaining that Sutter had planned to prevent the wounded man from exposing the diamond dealer as the real criminal, Moto reveals that Sutter's bullet had really killed the smuggler in his attempted escape from the swamp, and that the sly detective had used the dead man's corpse to bait a trap for the real crime boss.
Director
Herbert I. Leeds
Cast
Peter Lorre
Jean Hersholt
Amanda Duff
Warren Hymer
Richard Lane
Leon Ames
Douglas Dumbrille
Charles D. Brown
Paul Harvey
Robert Lowery
Eddie Marr
Harry Woods
Neely Edwards
Harry Strang
George Magrill
Grace Hayle
Tony Martelli
Louis Mercier
Gloria Roy
Edwin Stanley
Jack Stoney
Lee Shumway
Jimmie Dundee
Al Kikume
Ralph Dunn
Lester Dorr
Ray Walker
Don Douglas
Max Wagner
Oscar G. Hendrian
Ward Bond
Juan Duval
Renie Riano
W. R. Deming
Edward Keane
Willie Best
Crew
William H. Anderson
Lucien Andriot
George Bricker
George Bricker
Jim Burnett
Dan Clark
Carl Daniels
Richard Day
Eddie Fitzgerald
Bill Forsyth
Bernard Freericks
Hank Gersen
Chester Gore
Don Greenwood
Charles Hall
Herschel
Newton Jones
Jack Jungmeyer Jr.
Samuel Kaylin
Wm. Koenig
Thomas Little
W. P. Mathewson
Jack Mcavoy
Ken Mcdonald
Peter Milne
Phillip Moore
Al Orenbach
Helen Parker
John Reinhardt
John Reinhardt
Harry Reynolds
Harry Reynolds
Hazel Rogers
Clinton Sandeen
Walter [m.] Scott
Roger Sherman
Edith Skouras
John Stone
Anthony Ugrin
Ben Wurtzel
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
It's not the heat, it's the humidity.- Twister McGurk
Trivia
Notes
The working titles of this film were Mr. Moto in Puerto Rico and Mr. Moto in Trinidad. It was also reviewed as Danger Island. According to the Twentieth Century-Fox Produced Scripts Collection at the UCLA Theater Arts Library, the film was originally to have been a Charlie Chan picture. The first treatment written by John Reinhardt in 1938 was entitled Chan in Trinidad. In September 1938, George Bricker wrote another treatment titled Mr. Moto in Trinidad. According materials contained in the Twentieth Century-Fox Records of the Legal Department at the UCLA Theater Arts Library, Antonio Moreno was originally to have played the role of "La Costa." Fox produced a film in 1934 based on the same source entitled Murder in Trinidad (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1931-40; F3.2997). Twentieth Century-Fox produced The Caribbean Mystery in 1945 based on the same source which starred James Dunn and was directed by Robert Webb. For additional information about the series, consult the Series Index and see below for Think Fast Mr. Moto (1937).
