 These were produced by Ambassador Films at Bushey Studios, who had made a healthy profit rereleasing Tod's 1930s films during the war years.During the early 1950s, Slaughter appeared as the villain in two crime films "King of the Underworld" (1952) and "Murder at Scotland Yard" (1953) and he was still regularly touring the provinces and London suburbs.However, the public's appetite for melodrama seemed to have abated somewhat by this stage and he was declared bankrupt in 1953, owing to a downturn in his touring income.