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The Green Hornet is a american film of genre Science fiction directed by Ray Taylor released in USA on 8 january 1940 with Gordon Jones
The Green Hornet (1940)
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Add to a movie listThe Green Hornet (1940) is a Universal movie serial based on The Green Hornet radio series by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker.
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Newspaper publisher Britt Reid, secretly The Green Hornet, and his Korean valet Kato investigate and expose several seemingly separate rackets. This leads them into continued conflict with the Chief, the criminal mastermind behind the Syndicate and the individual crimes.Actors
Gordon Jones
(Britt Reid / The Green Hornet)
Wade Boteler
(Michael Axford)
Anne Nagel
(Leonore Case)
Keye Luke
(Kato)
Cy Kendall
(Curtis Monroe)
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