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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
5.7Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1936
6.1It's Never Too Late to Mend
1937
6.3Crimes at the Dark House
1940
5.6Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
1935
5.7The Ticket of Leave Man
1937
5.3The Greed of William Hart
1948
5.7The Face at the Window
1939
5.8The Curse of the Wraydons
1946
5.8The Curse of the Wraydons
1946
6.5Murder at the Grange
1952
5.6The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
1936
6.3Darby and Joan
1937
7.0Tod Slaughter at Home
1936
9.0A Ghost for Sale
1952
6.0Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
1938

London After Dark
1926
10.0Bothered by a Beard
1945
9.0Pots of Plots
1938
10.0Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
1954