Tod Slaughter Trailers
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Tod Slaughter took to the stage in 1905 and made a name for himself as the star villain of numerous Victorian melodramas which he toured around England. Many of these were filmed cheaply in the 30s and 40s by quota-quickie tzar George King. His ham performances are perfectly suited to the material and the best of his films give the impression that if the Victorians could have made features they would have looked like this
Most Popular Tod Slaughter Trailers
Total trailers found: 21
01 December 1952
A former police detective turned private investigator is approached by two elderly sisters, who say that someone is terrorising them, but it turns out that the man they believe is responsible is long since dead.
01 June 1945
A flagrant plug for the trusty safety razor disguised as a comic history of shaving, this witty treat was made by EVH Emmett, whose sardonic tones graced many an educational film in the 1930s and 40s.
01 March 1937
An evil prison administrator cruelly abuses the inmates at his prison, until one day the tables are turned.
01 March 1948
Hart and Moore are grave-robbers who provide cadavers to the medical students of 19th-century Edinburgh.
16 December 1946
Tod Slaughter goes about the countryside strangling everybody. His evil scheme is to destroy the family who wronged him.
01 February 1938
Sexton Blake and Tinker foil criminal plot connected with the Tongs, and master-minded by "famous stamp collector" and millionaire.
07 April 1939
In 1880, the criminal called The Wolf is responsible for a murderous rampage in France. When the Brisson Bank is robbed in Paris and the employee Michelle is murdered, the wealthy Chevalier Lucio del Gardo is the only chance to save the bank.
01 March 1936
It is England in the 1830s. London's dockside is teeming with ships and sailors who have made their fortune in foreign lands.
05 July 1952
A sinister crook is implicated in blackmail, greed for emeralds, a secret formula and murder. Thee episodes from a 1952 British television series called "Inspector Morley, Late of Scotland Yard, Investigates" were joined together and released theatrically.
08 August 1937
After the Local council he works for decides to replace its horse-drawn services with motor vehicles, one of the drivers spends his savings to buy the horse.
01 December 1952
A manor caretaker relates the tale of a mad squire, and vanishes.
07 August 1954
Tod Slaughter’s last big screen appearance on camera, delivering a Sweeney Todd monologue.
16 January 1950
BBC live outside broadcast from the Theatre Royal, Stratford, of Tod Slaughter’s production of his melodrama Spring-Heeled Jack.
01 February 1937
Darby is a blind girl and Joan is her elder sister. The story revolves around Joan's passion for Yorke - an idle scamp - and her marriage to his uncle, the family benefactor.
30 April 1936
The film begins in a BBC studio with the 100th edition of "In Town Tonight". Flotsam and Jetsom open with a "topical number".
18 August 1935
In 1820s rural England, a young girl is tricked by tales of marriage from a villainous Squire. When she becomes pregnant and disappears, a gipsy lad is blamed.
01 January 1938
Tod Slaughter introduces himself in brief vignettes of some of his most famous parts (Sweeney Todd, Squire William Corder, etc.
01 January 1926
This rare film of stage actor and later cinema star Tod Slaughter opens with a view of St Paul's over the river and the bright lights of Piccadilly at night.
01 March 1940
In this lurid melodrama, Tod Slaughter plays a villain who murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in the gold fields of Australia and assumes his identity in order to inherit Glyde's estate in England.
01 October 1937
A man is accused of a series of murders that were actually committed by a crazed killer called "The Tiger.
12 October 1936
Short skit in which a "Pathetone" reporter tries to interview Tod Slaughter at home, but finds the fiendish fellow is more interested in "polishing him off".
