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A former detective assists Scotland Yard to solve a blackmail case involving murder.

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...

Inspector Morley helps to solve the murder of a fake medium.

Lady Sylvia Gray approaches ex-Scotland Yard detective John Morley because she is being blackmailed over compromising letters following an...

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...

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...

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...

A critical piece of evidence is uncovered in the hunt for Terrence Reilly: a letter listing an address where Reilly had been seen.

A former police detective turned private investigator is approached by two elderly sisters, who say that someone is terrorising them, but it turns...

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...

A young woman named Susan, owner of a rare green-eyed emerald (rumoured to be the left eye of an ancient idol), is kidnapped. The kidnappers demand...

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...

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...

BBC live outside broadcast from the Theatre Royal, Stratford, of Tod Slaughter’s production of his melodrama Spring-Heeled Jack.

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...

A manor caretaker relates the tale of a mad squire, and vanishes.

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...

Tod Slaughter’s last big screen appearance on camera, delivering a Sweeney Todd monologue.

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...

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...