Meet Sexton Blake!
Opening title card
Directed byJohn Harlow
Screenplay byJohn Harlow
Based onThe Mystery of the Free Frenchmen
by Anthony Parsons[1]
Produced byLouis H. Jackson
StarringDavid Farrar
Manning Whiley
Dennis Arundell
John Varley
CinematographyGeoffrey Faithfull
Edited byVi Burdon
Music byPercival Mackey
Production
companies
Strand Film Company (for)
British National Films
Distributed byAnglo-American Film Corporation (UK)
Release date
  • 5 February 1945 (1945-02-05) (UK)
Running time
80 minutes[2]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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

Critical reception

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

References

  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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