Mr. Moto Movies

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Peter Lorre starred as Mr. Moto in eight movies

Want to know the best Mr. Moto movies?  How about the worst Mr. Moto movies?  Curious about Mr. Moto box office grosses or which Mr. Moto movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Mr. Moto movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Mr. Moto is a fictional Japanese secret agent and detective created by the American author John P. Marquand. He appeared in six novels by Marquand published between 1935 and 1957.  From 1937 to 1939, Peter Lorre starred in eight Mr. Moto movies.  The last Mr. Moto movie was made in 1965 and starred Henry Silva as Mr. Moto….that reboot was a flop with critic and audiences.  This page will rank 9 Mr. Moto movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.

Drivel part of the page:  When we wrote a UMR page on Peter Lorre, we were very frustrated that we were unable to find box office grosses on most of the Mr. Moto movies…and even more frustrated that had to leave Lorre’s Moto movies off our UMR page.  Well with the help of (1) the Harrison Reports (2) the ledgers of MGM, Warner Brothers & RKO and (3) the awesome computer skills of WoC…we were able to come up with box offfice grosses for the Moto movies.  Like all calculations of old box office grosses….these are educated guesses.  We might not have the right house….but we feel confident we are in the right neighborhood.

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Mr. Moto Movies Can Be Sorted 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Mr. Moto movies by stars of the movies
  • Sort Mr. Moto movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Mr. Moto movies by yearly domestic box office rank
  • Sort Mr. Moto movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort Mr. Moto movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
  • Use the search and sort button to make this page very interactive.

Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Andy Hardy Table

  1. Zero Mr. Moto movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark.  That is a percentage of 0.00% of the movies listed. Thank You, Mr. Moto (1937) was their biggest box office ht when looking at adjusted domestic box office gross.
  2. An average Mr. Moto movie grosses $46.44 million in adjusted box office gross.
  3. Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter.  6 of Mr. Moto movies are rated as good movies…or 66.00% of their movies. Thank You, Mr. Moto (1937) is the highest rated movie while The Return of Mr. Moto (1965) was the lowest rated movie.
  4. An average Ultimate Movie Ranking  (UMR) Score is 39.86.  1 Mr. Moto movies scored higher than that average….or 11.11% of the movies. Thank You, Mr. Moto (1937) got the the highest UMR Score while The Return of Mr. Moto (1965) got the lowest UMR Score.

Check out Mr. Moto movies career compared to other performers/groups.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

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6 thoughts on “Mr. Moto Movies

    1. Hey Stein….true these movies did not gross much….but they were money makers….the average budget was around $100,000 so in many cases they earned about 5 times that amount for the producers….it was only when it got to about 2 times that amount that the movies came to an end. Thanks for checking out our latest page.

    1. Hey Flora….I have seen all of the Lorre movies….but not the Silva one. I couple of years ago I was trying to see how many movies I could watch in a year….I found the Moto movies and the Charlie Chan ones good to watch because they were barely over one hour long. Thanks for the comment.

  1. Konnichiwa Bruce! Nice to see Mr. Moto get his own movie page, it’ll be interesting to see how many people have actually seen any of these movies. I had watched the Peter Lorre series again last Xmas, I was alternating with the Charlie Chan series which you should mark down for future consideration.

    I haven’t seen the most recent one on your chart starring Henry Silva in the role.

    Looking at the UMR the second one in the series is the chart topper and the first movie is at no.2. They all seem quite similar to me and many of them are only about an hour long. B pictures that were shown before the main movie and were sometimes more entertaining. It’s always fun to see Lorre karate chopping the bad guys. Voted Up!

    Sayonara!

    1. Hey Steve….you were one of the people that asked for a Peter Lorre page….and I always felt that I dropped the ball by only including one of his Moto movies….and then recently I was doing some research in the Harrison Reports I kept seeing the Moto movies popping up…..so I figured I would make up for my previous drop by giving him Moto his own page.

      I am not thinking many people have seen the Silva Moto movie….I did not even know it existed until I did a IMDb Moto search and it popped up. As for Chan….I have seen a few of the Chan movies pop up in the Harrison Reports….so maybe in the future I will do the same process for Chan that Moto got.

      Yep… think the first two were the most successful….then it was a steady slide down for the last 6 movies…at least box office wise….though the last Moto movie (Mr. Moto Takes A Vacation) actually got decent reviews.

      As always…thanks for stopping by.

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