Thank You, Mr. Moto (1937)
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Directors
Norman Foster
Cast
Peter Lorre, Thomas Beck, Pauline Frederick, Jayne Regan
The story
A caravan settles for the night in the Gobi Desert. A man sneaks into a tent to steal a scroll, but adventurer and soldier of fortune Kentaro Moto is only pretending to be asleep and kills him. When the caravan reaches Peiping, Moto is searched by the police.
Genres
Crime, mystery film
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