Mr. Moto's Gamble (1938)

Peter Lorre: Mr. Moto

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Quotes 

• Lee Chan : Oh, Mr. Moto?

  Kentaro Moto : Yes, Lee?

  Lee Chan : I though you would like to know I got a letter from Pop yesterday.

  Kentaro Moto : Oh, you did?

  Lee Chan : Mm-hmm. He sent his best to you.

  Kentaro Moto : Thank you. And, uh, how is your honorable father enjoying his homelife in beautiful Honolulu?

  Lee Chan : He seems fine, but he kind of worries about me. Y'see, I'm really supposed to be studying art here at the university... but gosh, I want to be a detective!

  Kentaro Moto : [chuckles]  I understand. My parents wanted me to be an acrobat.

• Kentaro Moto : There is no situation that science and skill cannot master.

• Kentaro Moto : To recognize one's faults requires intelligence; to admit them requires courage.

• Kentaro Moto : Much information can be obtained from tongues loosened in anger.

• Kentaro Moto : [examining the dead body]  This is not suicide Mr. Riggs.

  [dryly] 

  Kentaro Moto : It's most unusual to shoot oneself in the back and without a gun.

• Lieutenant Riggs : A sock in the eye ain't homicide. Maybe his ticker went bad on him. Who knows?

  Kentaro Moto : No one... except the coroner.

• Nick Crowder : Who pulled the strings to get this fight on tonight?

  Kentaro Moto : I plead guilty, Mr. Crowder. You see, some people save strings; I pull them.