VCI Entertainment has set Feb. 21, 2023 as the street date for a new 2K film restoration of the directing team of Ford Beebe and Ray Taylor’s 1940 serial adaptation of the popular radio series, The Green Hornet.
Beginning in 1936 at WXYZ radio (Detroit), producers George W. Trendle and Fran Striker launched “The Green Hornet” radio series featuring crime-fighter Britt Reid (played by Al Hodge) and his sidekick Kato, which would eventually go national in 1938 when the Mutual Broadcasting System picked it up.
So popular was the series that it was only a matter of time before Hollywood would come calling. Universal Pictures acquired the production rights and recruited Gordon Jones (Pride of the Navy, My Sister Eileen, Flying Tigers, etc.) for the role of Britt Reid (aka: The Green Hornet) and none other than Charlie Chan-film series favorite, Keye Luke, to be Kato.
Reid, by day is a newspaper publisher, who becomes a mysterious masked figure in order to take on the criminal element. But, the police think that the Green Hornet is actually a criminal in his own right, which works to Reid’s benefit …
13-thrill-packed cliffhanger-episodes involving insurance fraud, a crooked flying school, an auto-theft ring and more … which ultimately leads Reid to the discovery that there is just one mastermind behind all of these operations!! The mystery is … who is the underworld mastermind?
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