Although she is the mastermind of a gang of crooks, Kate Westhanger's talents are unknown to those outside her circle, thus enabling her to infiltrate George Flanbaugh's gold syndicate. While ostensibly working for Flanbaugh, Kate actually is compiling information on a large gold shipment.


Edgar Wallace’s celluloid phantom Wanted at Headquarters arrives like a charcoal hurricane out of a 1920 fogbank—an artefact so steeped in soot and gold leaf that merely unspooling it feels tantamount to larceny. Forget your flapper stereotypes; this is a film where the criminal matriarch quotes Juvenal while rifling ...


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" Edgar Wallace’s celluloid phantom Wanted at Headquarters arrives like a charcoal hurricane out of a 1920 fogbank—an artefact so steeped in soot and gold leaf that merely unspooling it feels tantamount to larceny. Forget your flapper stereotypes; this is a film where the criminal matriarch quotes Juvenal while rifling through vault schematics, where the camera stalks corridors like a paid-in-full gumshoe, and where every intertitle crackles with the author’s signature tabloid zing. Director Wil..."
Edgar Wallace, Wallace Clifton
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