The Green Hornet

NR 6.4
1940 4 hr 18 min Adventure , Crime , Science Fiction

A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.

  • Cast:
    Gordon Jones , Anne Nagel , Keye Luke , Cy Kendall , Wade Boteler , Phillip Trent , Stanley Andrews

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Reviews

IslandGuru
1940/01/08

Who payed the critics

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Cathardincu
1940/01/09

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

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pointyfilippa
1940/01/10

The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

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Sameer Callahan
1940/01/11

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

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