Mr. Moto │ Peter Lorre

In this edition of Endyr's Movie Theater I am featuring the great Peter Lorre as Mr. Moto, in "Mr. Moto's Last Warning".  It was released in 1939, and it's one of the best of the eight Mr. Moto movies that starred Peter Lorre.  Mr. Moto is a fictional Japanese secret agent created by the American author John P. Marquand.  Mr. Moto appeared in six novels written by Marquand and published between 1935 and 1957.  Marquand initially created the character for the Saturday Evening Post, which was seeking stories that featured an Asian hero shortly after the death of Charlie Chan's creator Earl Derr Biggers.  By-the-way,  Mr. Moto is the first authentic martial arts film "hero" in Western cinema.  He was an expert in Jiu-Jutsu and Judo.  It is not commonly known, but Mr. Moto's first name is Kentaro.