Tod Slaughter Movies
- 1936
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street5.41936HD
It is England in the 1830s. London's dockside is teeming with ships and sailors who have made their fortune in foreign lands. Sweeney Todd, a Fleet...
- 1936
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke5.21936HD
The film begins in a BBC studio with the 100th edition of "In Town Tonight". Flotsam and Jetsom open with a "topical number". Then there is an...
- 1940
Crimes at the Dark House
Crimes at the Dark House5.6791940HD
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...
- 1939
The Face at the Window
The Face at the Window5.4121939HD
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...
- 1935
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn5.41935HD
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...
- 1938
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror5.71938HD
Sexton Blake and Tinker foil criminal plot connected with the Tongs, and master-minded by "famous stamp collector" and millionaire.
- 1946
The Curse of the Wraydons
The Curse of the Wraydons5.21946HD
Tod Slaughter goes about the countryside strangling everybody. His evil scheme is to destroy the family who wronged him. He has a secret lab complete...
- 1937
The Ticket of Leave Man
The Ticket of Leave Man5.51937HD
A man is accused of a series of murders that were actually committed by a crazed killer called "The Tiger." He must prove his innocence and catch the...
- 1950
Spring-Heeled Jack
Spring-Heeled Jack01950HD
BBC live outside broadcast from the Theatre Royal, Stratford, of Tod Slaughter’s production of his melodrama Spring-Heeled Jack.
- 1948
The Greed of William Hart
The Greed of William Hart4.91948HD
Hart and Moore are grave-robbers who provide cadavers to the medical students of 19th-century Edinburgh. When the supply becomes low and demand still...
- 1952
A Ghost for Sale
A Ghost for Sale01952HD
A manor caretaker relates the tale of a mad squire, and vanishes.
- 1952
Murder at the Grange
Murder at the Grange61952HD
A former police detective turned private investigator is approached by two elderly sisters, who say that someone is terrorising them, but it turns...
- 1937
Darby and Joan
Darby and Joan01937HD
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...
- 1952
King of the Underworld
King of the Underworld4.51952HD
A sinister crook is implicated in blackmail, greed for emeralds, a secret formula and murder. Thee episodes from a 1952 British television series...
- 1937
Song of the Road
Song of the Road61937HD
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...
- 1954
Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen01954HD
Tod Slaughter’s last big screen appearance on camera, delivering a Sweeney Todd monologue.
- 1937
It's Never Too Late to Mend
It's Never Too Late to Mend5.81937HD
An evil prison administrator cruelly abuses the inmates at his prison, until one day the tables are turned.
- 1945
Bothered by a Beard
Bothered by a Beard01945HD
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...
- 1926
London After Dark
London After Dark01926HD
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...
- 1938
Pots of Plots
Pots of Plots01938HD
Tod Slaughter introduces himself in brief vignettes of some of his most famous parts (Sweeney Todd, Squire William Corder, etc.)