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A crazed killer known as "The Spinebreaker" is terrorizing London with a series of grisly murders. The police seem powerless to stop him. Director: George King | Stars: Tod Slaughter, Marjorie Taylor, D.J. Williams, Eric Portman. Votes: 328. 4. It's Never Too Late to Mend (1937) 70 min | Drama.
[Screensnapshots on Tod Slaughter]: Tod Slaughter made his first feature film appearance in 1935 he had accrued a lifetime of experience on the British stage. He specialized in revivals of Victorian melodramas, his so-called “new old melodramas”
Tod Slaughter. Actor: Crimes at the Dark House. 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...
Dec 5, 2023 · – Part 1: Introduction and films 1-4 – I can't remember precisely when I first encountered the cinema of the once hugely popular British stage and screen actor, Tod Slaughter, but know for a fact it was via TV screenings of his first two features, Maria Marten, or the Murder in the Red Barn and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Steet.
Nov 21, 2023 · • The Tod Slaughter Repertory Company (2023): video essay on the regular players from Slaughter’s feature films • Maria Marten and Sweeney Todd radio plays (1932): newly remastered from original 78 rpm shellac discs, these original recordings are presented with optional, newly recorded Current 93 scores
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Jul 22, 2019 · Tod Slaughter brings to audio his most famous stage creation: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a role he played on film and over 4,000 times on stage. Addeddate 2019-07-22 18:55:56
