Tod Slaughter – MRQE

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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 Street barber, awaits the arrival of men whose first port of call is for a good, close shave. For most it will be the last time they are seen alive. Using a specially designed barber’s chair, Sweeney Todd despatches his victims to the cellar below, where he robs them of their new found fortunes and chops their remains into small pieces. Meanwhile, Mrs Lovett is enjoying a roaring trade for her popular penny meat pies.

The Greed of William Hart

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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 great, the two decide to create their own supply, a plan that proves profitable when they stick to vagrants, prostitutes and drunkards. But when they poison likable Jamie, the townsfolk retaliate. NB: This film was originally written to be about Burke and Hare, but after it was completed, the British censors refused to allow its release on the grounds those names themselves were offensive; thus the entire soundtrack was recut so that new names – Hart and Moore – recorded by the film’s actors, were cut into the previously recorded lines, replacing the offending “Burke” or “Hare”, sentence by sentence.

The Curse of the Wraydons

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Tod Slaughter goes about the countryside strangling everybody. His evil scheme is to destroy the family who wronged him. He secret lab is complete with a torture chamber, featured in the films climax. Probably the most maniacal portrayal Tod ever gave.

The Song of the Road

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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 the horse. Together they search the countryside looking for work, and meeting an assorted group of characters on the way.

Crimes at the Dark House

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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 identity in order to inherit Glyde’s estate in England. On arriving in England, “Sir Percival” schemes to marry an heiress for her money, and, with the connivance of the cunning Dr. Isidor Fosco, embarks on a killing spree of all who suspect him to be an imposter and would get in the way of his plans to stay Lord of the Manor.

Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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

The Ticket of Leave Man

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A man is accused of a series of murders that were actually committed by a crazed killer called “The Tiger.” He must prove his innocence and catch the murderer.

It’s Never Too Late to Mend

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An evil prison administrator cruelly abuses the inmates at his prison, until one day the tables are turned.

The Crimes of Stephen Hawke

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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 interview with a distinguished actor, which dissolves into a performance of one of his famous melodramas about a wicked moneylender etc.

Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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 is blamed.