Mr. Moto Takes a Chance

In the jungle near Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Mr. Moto poses as an ineffectual archaeologist and a venerable holy man with mystical powers to help foil two insurgencies against the government.

Cast

Peter Lorre

as Mr. Moto

Rochelle Hudson

as Victoria 'Vicki' Mason

Robert Kent

as Marty Weston

J. Edward Bromberg

as Raja Ali

Chick Chandler

as Chick Davis

George Regas

as Bokor

Frederick Vogeding

as Zimmerman

H.W. Gim

Al Kikume

James B. Leong

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Maybe not one of the more substantial of the "Moto" stories, this one, but Peter Lorre still has some fun as the eponymous detective. He is, ostensibly, working on an archaeological dig in the tiny kingdom of Tong Moi. Things all start to get mysterious when famed aviator "Victoria Mason" (the tombo...

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