Popular literature and theatre created the storytelling conventions that fed into film melodrama. Long neglected by critics, who dismissed it as mere fodder for the groundlings, melodrama has since come to be seen as a rich and vital tradition, no less so in British cinema than in Hollywood.

Here we will discuss such key figures as the barnstorming actor Tod Slaughter and the Gainsborough studios, which produced some of the most popular British films ever made.

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