Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (1936)
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Horror Movies & Sci-Fi Movies Database
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In the Nineteenth Century, in London, the barber Sweeney Todd invites lonely and wealthy costumers in the port to his barbershop on the nearby Fleet Street and murders them to take their money, while his associate Mrs. Lovatt and owner of a bakery below is barbershop gets rid off the bodies. Sweeney uses his fortune to help the fleet owner Stephen Oakley with the intention to force his daughter Joanna to marry him. However, the beloved Joanna's boyfriend Mark Ingerstreet returns rich from his last voyage and Sweeney decides to kill him and steal his fortune in pearl, making Mrs. Lovatt jealous with the situation.
Also Known As:
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Title: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
Release Date: September 29, 1939
Runtime: 76 mins
Genre: Crime
All Genres: Crime, Horror
Languages: English
Country: UK
Colors: Black and White
Sound: Mono
IMDB Rating: 6.2
Brimstone Pit Rating: 7.2 - (Rate This Horror Movie)
Category: Horror Movies Starting With S
MPAA Rating: K-18
Director(s):
George King
Cast:
Tod Slaughter ...Sweeney Todd
Stella Rho ...Mrs. Lovatt
John Singer ...Tobias Rag (as Johnny Singer)
Eve Lister ...Johanna Oakley
Bruce Seton ...Mark Ingerstreet
D.J. Williams ...Stephen Oakley
Davina Craig ...Nan
Jerry Verno ...Stanley Pearley
Graham Soutten ...The Beadle (as Ben Soutten)
Billy Holland ...Parsons, the fence
Norman Pierce ...Mr. Findlay
Aubrey Mallalieu ...Trader Paterson
Henry B. Longhurst ...Man On The Quayside Who Talks To Sweeney Todd
Ben Williams ...Captain Stephenson
Remaining Cast:
Writer(s):
George Dibdin Pitt
Frederick Hayward
H.F. Maltby
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Keywords:
Barber, Murder, Customer, Serial Killer, Hair Dye ...[more]
Keywords All:
Melodrama, Child Slave, Arson, Secret Trapdoor, Child Abuse, Cannibal, Cannibalism, Cross Dressing, Stock Music, Boy Dressed As Girl, Girl Dressed As Boy, Throat Slitting, Victorian Era, England, Secret Passage, Maniac, Baker, Psycho Film, Greed, Docudrama, Craziness, Natives, Indentured Servant, Meat Pie, Straight Razor, Basement, Beadle, Ship, 1700s, Mass Murder, Based On Play, Character Name In Title
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Rating: 7.2 out of 10.0 - 61 votes cast total
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