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Spotted an Auburn in 1937 Mr Moto film
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Tom_Parkinson wrote: Hi,
Here I am, innocently lazing away a Sunday afternoon watching a 1937 film, "Think Fast, Mr Moto," and all of a sudden in the film here comes a big Auburn sedan. The car smashes into Mr Moto's rick-shaw, but our hero is unhurt.
I am not enough of an Auburn aficionado to state what model or year this Auburn is, but perhaps one of our Auburn owners can identify it.
I must say, the Auburn is the best part of this film. Reflecting the prejudices of the times, the Japanese detective is played by Czechoslovakian-born actor Peter Lorre. Lorre went on to make 7 more Mr Moto movies, and he later held them in disdain.
The film is not on Youtube. Perhaps someone with a Netflix subscription can obtain the movie and identify the Auburn.
--Tom
PS--I am NOT going to tell you whodunit. You'll have to get the film and suffer through it as I did.
Hello,
I am a big fan of Peter Lorre's acting!
His first great success in a movie was in (art director) Fritz Lang's 1931 Berlin based Thriller "M - Eine Stadt sucht einen M?rder" (M - A City in search of a Murder) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_%281931_film%29
One of the best pre-war movies ever
Here is a link to the movie with subtitles in english langue
According to classic car history; Fritz Lang directed aswell the 1927 expressionism art inspired science fiction (silent) movie "Metropolis", during the final scene of the movie, a lot of the remaining (futuristic/aerodynamic designed) 1921 "Rumpler Tropfenwagen" (Drop car) were destroyed.
animationbegins.files.wordpress . ... s-1927.jpg
Only two of these cars are known today, both survived in technical museums in Berlin and Munich
Here are some links to car infos and fotos
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumpler_Tropfenwagen
www.oldtimer.net/images/bilderga ... 300030.jpg
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... entrum.JPG
www.sdtb.de/uploads/tx_templavoi ... en_pan.jpg
Cheers
Matt
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Here I am, innocently lazing away a Sunday afternoon watching a 1937 film, "Think Fast, Mr Moto," and all of a sudden in the film here comes a big Auburn sedan. The car smashes into Mr Moto's rick-shaw, but our hero is unhurt.
I am not enough of an Auburn aficionado to state what model or year this Auburn is, but perhaps one of our Auburn owners can identify it.
I must say, the Auburn is the best part of this film. Reflecting the prejudices of the times, the Japanese detective is played by Czechoslovakian-born actor Peter Lorre. Lorre went on to make 7 more Mr Moto movies, and he later held them in disdain.
The film is not on Youtube. Perhaps someone with a Netflix subscription can obtain the movie and identify the Auburn.
--Tom
PS--I am NOT going to tell you whodunit. You'll have to get the film and suffer through it as I did.
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