Having finished the #book String of Pearls last night, we rewatched #TodSlaughter's #SweeneyTodd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street tonight. Because of British censors and a tiny budget, the 1936 #film doesn't have all the gore and excitement of the book, but Tod Slaughter makes it fun with his evil laugh and promises to polish everyone off.

We watched The next #TodSlaughter #movie tonight, 1937's It's Never Too Late To Mend. Another fun, scenery-chewing melodrama. Neat bit of trivia: Ian Colin, who plays the man Slaughter's character frames, so he can get the guy's girlfriend, was, in real life, responsible for possibly the most famous photo of the #LochNessMonster. He bought the materials for it and took the picture helping out his father.

Was reminded this morning that we don't have #TodSlaughter's most famous film, #SweeneyTodd. Thanks to #InterLibraryLoan from our local #Library, we soon will. ❤️

It's Thursday, so time for the next #TodSlaughter #movie. One it got going it turned out to be more fun than Murder in the Red Barn, with Slaughter playing a kind fellow who was also a serial killer known as the Spine-Breaker. But first we had to get through an oddball intro with the comic singing duo, Flotsam & Jetsam. That was something.
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In other news, our Thursday #SherlockHolmes night has turned into our Thursday #TodSlaughter night. Last night we watched 1935's The Murder in the Red Barn. It's a very stagey melodrama, but it' was a fun watch. Slaughter was a serious scenery-chewer. Fun surprise: the guy who wins 6,000 guineas off of Slaughter, thus providing us with a third act, was played by Dennis Hoey, who later became famous for playing Lestrade in the Rathbone/Bruce Holmes #films. Neat to see him.
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Tonight's #Rifftrax #movie ended up being good closure on our Thursday #SherlockHolmes movie night. We watched Bridget & Mary Jo riff on 1939's Hound of the Baskervilles. Much fun. Next Thursday we start watching #TodSlaughter.