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| Year: 1938 Director: Norman Foster Rating: *** |
Director Norman Foster returned to direct the last of eight MR. MOTO movies starring Peter Lorre as a Chinese agent, who usually pretends to be a humble kind of cliche Asian servant type...
That's until showing his true colors as a resilient fighting machine.... initially a human target from various assassins after finding a prized treasure that he brings back to a San Fransisco museum...
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| Peter Lorre in MR MOTO TAKES A VACATION |
A potentially action-packed setup wasting too much time with an annoyingly flamboyant sidekick, leaving little for ingenue Virginia Field (stuck between token handsome white guy John King and Iva Stewart), who was a scene-stealer in the best MOTO feature LAST WARNING...
Yet Norman Foster provides terrific lighting-flashing, heavy-rain-filled streets that would later provide a terrific tense ending for Orson Welles's production JOURNEY INTO FEAR: so MR. MOTO'S VACATION ends with a literally thunderous bang that could have been a tremendous explosion.
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| Peter Lorre in MR MOTO TAKES A VACATION |
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| Iva Stewart in MR MOTO TAKES A VACATION |
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| Virginia Field with John 'Dusty' King and Iva Stewart in MR MOTO TAKES A VACATION |
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| John 'Dusty' King and Virginia Field in MR MOTO TAKES A VACATION |
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| Peter Lorre inside the rain in MR MOTO TAKES A VACATION |
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