Movies

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

Short skit in which a "Pathetone" reporter tries to interview Tod Slaughter at home, but finds the fiendish fellow is more interested in "polishing...

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

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...

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

Sexton Blake and Tinker foil criminal plot connected with the Tongs, and master-minded by "famous stamp collector" and millionaire.

Tod Slaughter introduces himself in brief vignettes of some of his most famous parts (Sweeney Todd, Squire William Corder, etc.)

A crook is implicated in blackmail, greed for emeralds and secret formula and murder.

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...

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...

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

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...