Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (1938)
Directed by George King
Genres - Mystery, Thriller |
Sub-Genres - Crime Thriller, Detective Film |
Release Date - Jan 10, 1951 (USA) |
Run Time - 70 min. |
Countries - United Kingdom |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Sexton Blake, a British pulp-novel rip-off of Sherlock Holmes, was the principal character in several fast-paced programmers of the 1930s. George Curzon stars as Blake in Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror, but the histrionic honors go to chop-licking Tod Slaughter as "The Snake," the elusive head of a group of masked criminals. The scriptwriters contrive to allow the perfidious Slaughter to escape scot-free at the climax, paving the way for a sequel (that, worse luck, was never filmed). Greta Gynt plays another of the distressed-damsel roles she was saddled with before graduating to bigger-budgeted productions in the 1940s. Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror represented the last of George Curzon's three appearances as Blake; the character would resurface on screen in 1944 in the person of David Farrar.
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agent [representative], bad-guy, criminal, damsel-in-distress, detective, gangster, good-guy, international, investigation, investigator, killing, millionaire, private-detective, rampage, rescue, weapons, Britain, sexton, slaughter, terror, trail [path]