Think Fast, Mr. Moto

Think Fast, Mr. Moto is a 1937 film about a freighter going from San Francisco to Shanghai where a Japanese detective solves a mystery caused by a gang of smugglers.
 * Directed by Norman Foster. Written by Philip MacDonald and Norman Foster, based on the 1925 novel Your Turn, Mr. Moto by John P. Marquand.

Meet.... MR. MOTO the foxiest detective of them all! (taglines)

Kentaro Moto

 * Half the world spends its time laughing at the other half, and both are fools.

Dialogue

 * Bob Hitchings: Are you hurt?
 * Kentaro Moto: No, thank you. Only a slight mishap.
 * Bob Hitchings: Gee, I thought sure we were gonna kill somebody.
 * Kentaro Moto: Mr. Moto is a very difficult fellow to kill.

Taglines

 * Meet.... MR. MOTO the foxiest detective of them all!

Cast

 * Peter Lorre — Mr. Kentaro Moto
 * Thomas Beck — Bob Hitchings Jr.
 * Virginia Field — Gloria Danton
 * Murray Kinnell — Joseph B. Wilkie
 * Sig Ruman — Nicolas Marloff
 * George Cooper — Muggs Blake
 * John Rogers — Carson the steward
 * Lotus Long — Lela Liu
 * J. Carrol Naish — Adram