| Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror | |
| Director: | George King |
| Producer: | George King |
| Screenplay: | A.R. Rawlinson (screenplay & dialogue) |
| Starring: | George Curzon Tod Slaughter |
| Music: | Jack Beaver (as 'music director') Bretton Byrd (uncredited) |
| Cinematography: | Hone Glendinning |
| Editing: | John Seabourne |
| Studio: | George King Productions |
| Runtime: | 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]
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]
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]