Misplaced Pages

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. It was George Curzon's third and final outing as the fictional detective Sexton Blake.

Plot summary

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

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"; 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."

References

1. "Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (1938)". Archived from the original on 14 January 2009.
2. "Sexton Blake And The Hooded Terror". TVGuide.com.
3. The BFI Companion to Crime, ed Phil Hardy, Cassell (1997), p. 53
4. Famous Movie Detectives II, Michael R Pitts (1991), p.123
5. The Unknown 1930s: An Alternative History of the British Cinema, 1929- 1939, edited by Jeffrey Richards, IB Tauris (1998), pp.92-93
6. "Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (1938) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.
7. Schwartz, Dennis. "hoodedterror". homepages.sover.net.

External links

• Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror at IMDb

This 1930s crime film-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

This article related to a British film of the 1930s is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• 1938 films
• 1938 crime films
• British black-and-white films
• Films directed by George King
• British detective films
• Films set in Hong Kong
• Films set in London
• Films set in England
• Films set in Paris
• Films shot at Shepperton Studios
• Films scored by Jack Beaver
• Films scored by Bretton Byrd
• British crime films
• Films based on British novels
• Films based on crime novels
• Sexton Blake films
• 1930s English-language films
• 1930s British films
• English-language crime films
• 1930s crime film stubs
• 1930s British film stubs