Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror

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| name = Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror

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| director = George King

| producer = George King

| screenplay = A.R. Rawlinson (screenplay & dialogue)

| based_on = {{based on|The Mystery of No 13. Caversham Square|Pierre Quiroule}}

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| starring = George Curzon
Tod Slaughter

| music = Jack Beaver (as 'music director')
Bretton Byrd (uncredited)

| cinematography = Hone Glendinning

| editing = John Seabourne

| studio = George King Productions

| distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer {{small|(UK)}}

| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1938}}

| runtime = 70 minutes

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

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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.{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/50219|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114094626/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/50219|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-01-14|title=Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (1938)}} It was George Curzon's third and final outing as the fictional detective Sexton Blake.{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/movies/sexton-blake-and-the-hooded-terror/review/117353/|title=Sexton Blake And The Hooded Terror|website=TVGuide.com}}

Plot summary

The film - described as the best in the Blake series of 1930s moviesThe BFI Companion to Crime, ed Phil Hardy, Cassell (1997), p. 53Famous Movie Detectives II, Michael R Pitts (1991), p.123 - features the character of Sexton Blake and his efforts to defeat a major crime organisation headed by Michael Larron, a 'sort of Moriarty figure'.The Unknown 1930s: An Alternative History of the British Cinema, 1929- 1939, edited by Jeffrey Richards, IB Tauris (1998), pp.92-93

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";{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/555447/sexton-blake-and-the-hooded-terror|title=Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (1938) - Overview - TCM.com|website=Turner Classic Movies}} 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."{{cite web|url=http://homepages.sover.net/~ozus/hoodedterror.htm|title=hoodedterror|first=Dennis|last=Schwartz|website=homepages.sover.net}}