Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror

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]

Plot summary

The film - described as the best in the Blake series of 1930s movies^[2][3] - features the character of Sexton Blake and his efforts to defeat a major crime organisation headed by Michael Larron, a 'sort of Moriarty figure'.^[4]

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

References

1. ↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/50219
2. ↑ The BFI Companion to Crime, ed Phil Hardy, Cassell (1997), p. 53
3. ↑ Famous Movie Detectives II, Michael R Pitts (1991), p.123
4. ↑ The Unknown 1930s: An Alternative History of the British Cinema, 1929- 1939, edited by Jeffrey Richards, IB Tauris (1998), pp.92-93

External links

• Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror at the Internet Movie Database