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Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
Directed by	George King
Screenplay by	A.R. Rawlinson (screenplay & dialogue)
Based on	The Mystery of No 13. Caversham Square; by Pierre Quiroule
Produced by	George King
Starring	George Curzon; Tod Slaughter
Cinematography	Hone Glendinning
Edited by	John Seabourne
Music by	Jack Beaver (as 'music director') ; Bretton Byrd (uncredited)
Production; company	George King Productions
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (UK)
Release date	1938;
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

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.