Meet Sexton Blake!

Meet Sexton Blake!
Meet Sexton Blake!
	Opening title card
Directed by	John Harlow
Screenplay by	John Harlow
Based on	The Mystery of the Free Frenchmen; by Anthony Parsons
Produced by	Louis H. Jackson
Starring	David Farrar; Manning Whiley; Dennis Arundell; John Varley
Cinematography	Geoffrey Faithfull
Edited by	Vi Burdon
Music by	Percival Mackey
Production; companies	Strand Film Company (for); British National Films
Distributed by	Anglo-American Film Corporation (UK)
Release date	5 February 1945 (UK);
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Meet Sexton Blake! is a 1945 British supporting feature drama film directed by John Harlow and starring David Farrar, Manning Whiley, Dennis Arundell, and John Varley.^[3]^[4]^[5] It was one of two films in which David Farrar played Sexton Blake, the other being The Echo Murders (1945), both directed by John Harlow.^[6] Important documents are stolen from a dead man during an air raid, and the War Office call in Sexton Blake to investigate.^[7]

Cast[edit]

David Farrar as Sexton Blake
Manning Whiley as Raoul Sudd
Dennis Arundell as Johann Sudd
John Varley as Tinker
Betty Huntley-Wright as Nobby
Gordon McLeod as Inspector Venner
Kathleen Harrison as Mrs Bardell
Cyril Smith as Belford
Magda Kun as Yvonne
Ferdy Mayne as Slant-Eyes
Charles Farrell as Skipper
Roddy Hughes as Ferraby
Philip Godfrey as James Baird
Tony Arpino as Torch
Charles Rolfe as Mario Carloni
Elsie Wagstaff as Mrs Baird

Critical reception[edit]

TV Guide called the film "entertaining in an unintended way", rating it two out of five stars.^[8]

References[edit]

^ Hinrich, Derek (2018). "The Living Image". Retrieved 26 June 2020.
^ "MEET SEXTON BLAKE - British Board of Film Classification". www.bbfc.co.uk.
^ "Meet Sexton Blake (1945)". Archived from the original on 18 October 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2010.
^ Chibnall, Stephen; McFarlane, Brian (23 October 2009). The British 'B' Film. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781844575749 – via Google Books.
^ "Meet Sexton Blake (1944) - John Harlow - Cast and Crew - AllMovie". AllMovie.
^ "OBITUARIES: David Farrar". 29 September 1995. Archived from the original on 12 May 2022.
^ Williams, Richard. "Meet Sexton Blake (1945 film)". Silver Sirens.
^ "Meet Sexton Blake". TVGuide.com.

External links[edit]

Meet Sexton Blake! at IMDb

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[1] Hinrich, Derek (2018). "The Living Image". Retrieved 26 June 2020.

[2] "MEET SEXTON BLAKE - British Board of Film Classification". www.bbfc.co.uk.

[3] "Meet Sexton Blake (1945)". Archived from the original on 18 October 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2010.

[4] Chibnall, Stephen; McFarlane, Brian (23 October 2009). The British 'B' Film. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781844575749 – via Google Books.

[5] "Meet Sexton Blake (1944) - John Harlow - Cast and Crew - AllMovie". AllMovie.

[6] "OBITUARIES: David Farrar". 29 September 1995. Archived from the original on 12 May 2022.

[7] Williams, Richard. "Meet Sexton Blake (1945 film)". Silver Sirens.

[8] "Meet Sexton Blake". TVGuide.com.

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v t e Sexton Blake
Characters	Sexton Blake Monsieur Zenith
Creator	Harry Blyth
Literature	Sexton Blake bibliography The Sexton Blake Library (1915–68) The Tower of Silence (2013)
Film	Sexton Blake (1928) Sexton Blake and the Bearded Doctor (1935) Sexton Blake and the Mademoiselle (1935) Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (1938) Meet Sexton Blake! (1945) The Echo Murders (1945) Murder at Site 3 (1959)
Television	Sexton Blake (1967–71) Sexton Blake and the Demon God (1978)