Wednesday 27 July 2022

The Green Hornet, Episode 8: Dead or Alive

 "They made me blame it on you!"

This is more of the same, naturally, and another racket: tuis time a dry cleaning protection racket. There are more set pieces and, naturally, the plot won't progress until we get much closer to the end.

There's a twist, though, with the Green Hornet, always considered a criminal, this time being crudely framed for murder and with no one doubting his guilt. Both the police- really, this time- and the racketeers are after him. I hope this gets carried forward.

Gordon Jones really is excellent, his stentorian tones doing the trick very well indeed both as Britt Reid and the Hornet. It has to be said, too, that the acting, like everything, is very much above average for a movie serial.

We end, of course, with a random explosion. What else?

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