Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
1938 British film
- 1938 (1938)
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Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror is a 1938 British crime film directed by George King and starring George Curzon, Tod Slaughter and Greta Gynt.[1] It was George Curzon's third and final outing as the fictional detective Sexton Blake.[2]
Plot summary
The film - described as the best in the Blake series of 1930s movies[3][4] - features the character of Sexton Blake and his efforts to defeat a major crime organisation headed by Michael Larron, a 'sort of Moriarty figure'.[5]
Cast
- George Curzon as Sexton Blake
- Tod Slaughter as Michael Larron
- Greta Gynt as Madamoiselle Julie
- Tony Sympson as Tinker
- Charles Oliver as Max Fleming
- Marie Wright as Mrs. Bardell
- David Farrar as Granite Grant
- Norman Pierce as Inspector Bramley
- H.B. Hallam as Monsieur Bertrand
- Bradley Watts as Paul Duvall
Critical reception
Of the film's villain, Leonard Maltin concluded, "Slaughter plays it basically straight in this passable low-budget outing";[6] while Dennis Schwartz wrote, "Tod Slaughter is a trip as the perverse villain drooling over both stamps and Julie (Greta Gynt), and decked out when meeting gang members in a spiffy black robe with a snake embroidered on its front and a fashionable KKK-like hood. Like Vincent Price, Slaughter can make a not too original low-budget B film fun to watch."[7]
References
- ^ "Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (1938)". Archived from the original on 14 January 2009.
- ^ "Sexton Blake And The Hooded Terror". TVGuide.com.
- ^ The BFI Companion to Crime, ed Phil Hardy, Cassell (1997), p. 53
- ^ Famous Movie Detectives II, Michael R Pitts (1991), p.123
- ^ The Unknown 1930s: An Alternative History of the British Cinema, 1929- 1939, edited by Jeffrey Richards, IB Tauris (1998), pp.92-93
- ^ "Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (1938) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.
- ^ Schwartz, Dennis. "hoodedterror". homepages.sover.net.
External links
- Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror at IMDb
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Films directed by George King
- Too Many Crooks (1930)
- Leave It to Me (1930)
- Number, Please (1931)
- Deadlock (1931)
- The Professional Guest (1931)
- Midnight (1931)
- Self Made Lady (1932)
- Men of Steel (1932)
- To Brighton with Gladys (1933)
- Mayfair Girl (1933)
- Smithy (1933)
- Enemy of the Police (1933)
- I Adore You (1933)
- The Silver Spoon (1933)
- Too Many Wives (1933)
- Matinee Idol (1933)
- High Finance (1933)
- Her Imaginary Lover (1933)
- Beware of Women (1933)
- Murder at the Inn (1934)
- Oh No Doctor! (1934)
- Guest of Honour (1934)
- Nine Forty-Five (1934)
- The Blue Squadron (1934)
- To Be a Lady (1934)
- The Office Wife (1934)
- Get Your Man (1934)
- Little Stranger (1934)
- Adventure Ltd. (1935)
- Full Circle (1935)
- Windfall (1935)
- The Man Without a Face (1935)
- Gay Old Dog (1935)
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)
- The Crimes of Stephen Hawke (1936)
- Reasonable Doubt (1936)
- Wanted! (1937)
- Merry Comes to Town (1937)
- Under a Cloud (1937)
- The Ticket of Leave Man (1937)
- Silver Top (1938)
- Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (1938)
- John Halifax (1938)
- The Face at the Window (1939)
- Crimes at the Dark House (1940)
- The Chinese Bungalow (1940)
- The Case of the Frightened Lady (1940)
- Two for Danger (1940)
- George and Margaret (1940)
- Tomorrow We Live (1943)
- Candlelight in Algeria (1944)
- Gaiety George (1946)
- Code of Scotland Yard (1947)
- Forbidden (1949)
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