The Olympic Theatre played host to the premiere of a melodrama named 'Ticket of Leave Man' on the 26th of May 1863. The play was written by Tom Taylor and was based on the French play 'Le Retour de Melun' by Eduard-Louis-Alexandre Brisebarre. The plot follows a man trying to clear his name after he is accused of being a serial killer. Over the next four acts the drama builds and builds until it reaches a face off in a churchyard! It was a popular enough melodrama for it to tour nationally and then to eventually be reused as a source for an early British film starring Tod Slaughter. The works of Tod Slaughter as an actor have generally been ignored and forgotten, however a happy side effect of this is that his films have generally fallen out of copyright due to nobody renewing it and therefore these films are available in the public domain. So if you want to see the 1937 film production of this title, you can find it on www.archive.org by clicking on this link... here.
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