Tod Slaughter stars in The Hooded Terror (1938)!
"SEXTON BLAKE (GEORGE CURZON), famous detective, lives on Baker Street with housekeeper MRS. BARDELL (MARIE WRIGHT), faithful assistant TINKER (TONY SIMPSON), PEDRO the bloodhound, his stamp albums, his silk dressing gowns and his microscope. The Hooded Terror, leader of the Black Quorum, most powerful criminal organization of the century, has until recently been running a gambling house in Mayfair, an underground snake-pit in Paris, and is still France's biggest employer of illicit Chinese labor. GRANITE GRANT (DAVID FARRAR), who calls to give BLAKE news of the Black Quorum, is garrotted before MRS. BARDELL has time to answer his ring at the front door. A clue found on the body convinces BLAKE that the Hooded Terror is none other than MICHAEL LARRON (TOD SLAUGHTER), millionaire philatelist. Also on the track of the criminals is MADEMOISELLE GALLEY (GRETA GYNT), French secret service agent, and she is able to rescue BLAKE when he falls into the clutches of the gang. But from a place of hiding MICHAEL LARRON has gloated upon the beauty of GALLEY'S face and figure and has vowed to win her for himself. GALLEY is lured to LARRON'S hideout but before he can wreak his will upon her BLAKE and TINKER decide to storm the palace. LARRON has only seconds in which to escape -- but GALLEY, who can now identify him as the Hooded Terror, must first be disposed of. She is left chained in the cellar where, frozen with terror, she watches steel trapdoors open to release a seething mass of giant pythons. LARRON, wounded, makes good his escape, but his evil plan to kill the lovely GALLEY is thwarted by the timely arrival of BLAKE and TINKER who vow that sometime, somewhere, the Hooded Terror will meet his just deserts."