The Green Hornet is a 1940 black-and-white 13 chapter movie serial from Universal Pictures edited into one feature film.
Producer: Henry MacRae
Writer: Fran Striker
Screenplay: George H. Plympton, Basil Dickey, Morrison Wood & Lyonel Margolies
Cinematographers: Jerome Ash & William A. Sickner
Editors: Irving Birnbaum, Joseph Gluck & Alvin Todd
Starring:
- Gordon Jones as Britt Reid and The Green Hornet[1]
- Wade Boteler as Michael Axford
- Keye Luke as Kato is Korean in the serial rather than being the original Japanese character of the radio series, due to rising anti-Japanese sentiment around the world. This was two years prior to Japan's December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States' entry into World War II. The radio show dropped Kato's nationality from the introductory sequence, included passing references in dialogue to his character being Filipino, and years later, after the war, returned to the standard show introduction.[2]
- Anne Nagel as Leonore Case
- Phillip Trent as Jasper Jenks
- Cy Kendall as Curtis Monroe
- Stanley Andrews as Police Commissioner [Chs.1,5,8,9,13]
- Selmer Jackson as District Attorney [Chs.4,10]
- Joseph Crehan as Judge Stanton [Chs.1,9,10,13]
- Walter McGrail as Dean
- Gene Rizzi as Corey
- John Kelly as Pete Hawks
- Eddie Dunn as D.H. Sligby [Ch.7]
- Edward Earle as Felix Grant [Ch.1]
- Ben Taggart as Phil Bartlett [Chs.3-4]
- Clyde Dilson as Meadows [Ch.5]
- Jerry Marlowe as Bob Stafford [Chs.7,11]
- Frederick Vogeding as Max Gregory [Ch.11] (as Fredrik Vogeding)
Britt Reid, publisher of the The Sentinel newspaper, is secretly the vigilante crime fighter The Green Hornet. He and his Korean valet Kato investigate and expose several seemingly separate criminal rackets. This leads them into continued conflict with "the Chief," the mastermind behind the criminal syndicate controlling those rackets.
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