Acting
Tod Slaughter
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
Titles
The Face at the Window
1939
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1936
The Greed of William Hart
1948
Crimes at the Dark House
1940
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
1935
The Curse of the Wraydons
1946
A Ghost for Sale
1952
King of the Underworld
1952
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
1936
It's Never Too Late to Mend
1937
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
1938
The Ticket of Leave Man
1937
Murder at the Grange
1952
Bothered by a Beard
1945
Tod Slaughter at Home
1936
She's My Darling
1937
Pots of Plots
1938
London After Dark
1926
Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
1954
Dark Passage
1952
The Case of the Green Eye
1952
The Case of the Scarlet Letters
1952
Reilly at Bay
1952
The Showdown
1952