KING’S THEATRE.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 13888, 22 June 1938, Page 5

KING’S THEATRE.

“THINK FAST MR MOTO.” “Mr Moto,” the new kind of sleuth who astonished millions <>f Saturday Evening P<>*t leaders, proves even more astonishing on the screen as Peter Lorre, tlie one star who could portray J. P. Alarcjuand’s diffident Japanese to the Jjt, undertakes the rule in ‘'Think Fast, All Moto,” ’twentieth Century-Fox picture which screens at the King’s Theatre, to-night onlv at 7.45 p.m Not since ho startled the world with his sensational triumph in “JI” has Lorre given the screen such an amazing perform nnct—the. strange Air Moto, whose eves are as mild as his timid’ smile, lint whose loind is as quick as his trigger finger. Strange events in Frisco s Chinatown place the amazing detective on, the trail of a criminal hand that has the international police at their wits’ end. From the Golden Gate he follows mysterious clues across the* Pacific to Shanghai, nest of a thousand iniquities, harbourer of a thousand evildoers. Enmeshed in the tragic toils of the gang that is the object of, Lorre’s search, Virginia, Field and Thomas Beck find their romance fearfully beset by a.ll manner of dangers, and so welcome the advent of the mysterious little Japanese. Foremost among the Shanghai group is Sig Rumann, the burly proprietor of a waterfront gambling den which is the headquarters of Lorre’s enemies. Norman foster who directed, the picture introduces the mild-mannered Oriental to a series of rough-and-tumble jujitsu combats that climax the film by exposing the members of the gang.