Tod Slaughter - Pathe News

A superb old pathe news piece featuring Englands only Horror star of the 1930s, famous for his melodramatic film work..mostly cinematic versions of the Villainous Victorian plays he played for many years on the stage such as "Maria Martin The Murder in the Red Barn", "Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street" and "The Greed Of William Hart". For anyone unaquainted with Mr Slaughters work...especially those with a love for old films such as the Universal horrors, you will LOVE Todds films...go seek them out!

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• old
• british
• horror
• cinema
• todd
• slaughter

[eponlindsey]

I dont understand this, what is it about?

[paulypoos]

Its sort of an advert for a very old British horror film called Sweeny Todd starring the actor Tod Slaughter. Pathe was a news reel shown in cinemas as part of the program...it showed world events, sporting news etc and bits like this were specially recorded by film companies to promote forthcoming releases.

[WJC007]

tod slaughter was a better sweeney todd than johnny depp!

[SirCoughsalot]

Tod Slaughter is the best "bad guy" actor around! And you can't beat his laugh. Can't spell Slaughter without Laughter!

[Garramedia]

"Englands only Horror star of the 1930s"...

-What about William Henry Pratt?

[xJessiicahhAmyjadee]

tod slaughter is my great great great uncle three times removed. (:

[jarroddottsfilms]

@WJC007 no he wasnt.

[stever1957]

The genius. The non-pareil. The absolute master of the ripe, lip-smacking melodrama.

What a shame that the British government banned the making of 'macabre films' during the war. What treasures the great man might have bequeathed us.

[drxcreatures]

Guys always look somewhere else, when talking about 'nice eyes'. They are so sincere (note sarcasm).

Charming Interview. Thanks for Posting. :)

[rufusminnie]

checked wiki. yes, BK was english but moved to canada around 1909. began horror flick career in US and it looks like he did maybe just one horror flick in england after beginning them in US (bio on wiki). so just by the numbers, i'd say tod was IT in jolly ol'.

[kub73158]

Tod~"Remind me to strangle you this evening". Girl-"Thank you sir". Lol.

[Toracube]

Hammiest actor of them all!! Love him!!! Great post. 5

[ForwardN2Unknown]

Glad to know I'm not the only one who caught the similarity in that sketch! I must say though, I would rather be shaved by Palin than Tod Slaughter. On the other hand both Palin and Depp are easier of the eyes in my opinion.

[royalcourtier]

Read my original post people, and calm down. Is there something wrong with observing that a comment that Slaughter was "England's only horror star of the 30's" is incorrect.  There will be people who read that who are indeed misled. There is nothing sarcastic or smart about pointing this out.