Detective Lloyd

Detective Lloyd (1932) is a 12-chapter Universal movie serial. A co-production between the American company Universal and the British company General Films, it was filmed entirely in Britain with British and Commonwealth actors. It was the only sound serial ever produced in the UK. Although a print was shown on British and Swedish[1] TV as recently as the 1970s, the film is now considered lost.

Detective Lloyd
Directed by	Henry MacRae Ray Taylor
Starring	Jack Lloyd Muriel Angelus
Distributed by	Universal Pictures General Films
Release date	4 January, 1932
Running time	216 minutes (12 chapters)
Country	United Kingdom United States
Language	English

It was also known by the titles Lloyd of the C.I.D. and In the Hands of the Hinfu. Detective Lloyd battled a villain known as the Panther in this serial. Material from the serial was edited into a feature film version called The Green Spot Mystery (1932), which is also a lost film. Detective Lloyd is on the British Film Institute's BFI 75 Most Wanted list of lost films.[2]

Chapter titles

1. The Green Spot Murder
2. The Panther Strikes
3. The Trap Springs
4. Tracked by Wireless
5. The Death Ray
6. The Poison Dart
7. The Race with Death
8. The Panther's lair
9. Imprisoned in the North Tower
10. The Panther's Cunning
11. The Panther at Bay
12. Heroes of the Law

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See also

• List of American films of 1932
• List of film serials by year
• List of film serials by studio

References

1. The Swedish broadcast was shown on SVT2 during the summer of 1974 with the 12th and last episode being aired on 5 July; see TV schedules in contemporary newspapers, for example Aftonbladet, 5 July 1974.
2. "Lloyd of the C.I.D. / BFI Most Wanted". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 31 May 2014.
3. Cline, William C. (1984). "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 205. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.

External links

• BFI 75 Most Wanted entry, with extensive notes
• Detective Lloyd at IMDb