Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror

UK 1938
produced by
George King for George King Productions
directed by George King
starring George Curzon, Tod Slaughter, Greta Gynt, Tony Sympson, Charles Oliver, Marie Wright, David Farrar, Norman Pierce, H.B. Hallam, Bradley Watts, Karen Marie Flagstad
written by A.R. Rawlinson, based on characters created by Hal Meredeth (= Harry Blyth) and on the story The Mystery of Caversham Square by Pierre Quiroule, music by Jack Beaver, Bretton Byrd

Sexton Blake, Sexton Blake (George Curzon)

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Almost against his will, Sexton Blake (George Curzon) is drawn into a fight against the international crimering led by the Snake (Tod Slaughter), who poses as a respected philatelist by day. Almost before he knows it, Blake has found the secret hideout of the Snake, but is tied up and left to die as the building is burned down - and he is only saved by Julie (Greta Gynt), a woman who he's kind of in love with but who is the moll of the Snake's second-in-command Max Fleming (Charles Oliver), and a woman the Snake is after himself.

Soon enough, the Snake, Fleming and Julie are all off to Paris, and Blake and his assistant Tinker (Tony Sympson) are in hot pursuit.

Eventually, the Snake kills Fleming over Julie, but as he does it before her very eyes, he now has to kill her as well and throws her into his death chamber, into which he also throws Tinker, finding him on Julie's trail, but then Blake arrives as the knight in shining armour and saves Tinker and Julie, who then turns out to be a secret agent who has been trailing the Snake for years. Unfortunately though, the Snake manages to escape ...

Not a good film by any means, this one is directed in a stagey manner, full of plotholes and relying way too much on coincidence in its story development - and yet there is something loveable about this one, and it's basically its large collection of pulp mainstays (from trapdoors to hooded villains and the like) all embedded in its enjoyably simplistic story. By the way, Tod Slaughter, usually a ham of the highest order, gives a very restrained performance in this one - but say what you want, his over-the-top performances are funnier.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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