Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 1936 British drama film produced and directed by George King, and written by Frederick Hayward, H. F. Maltby, and George Dibdin-Pitt. The film features actor Tod Slaughter as the barber Sweeney Todd.
Plot: 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.
Entertaining movie. Nicely written and good acting.
Tod Slaughter as Sweeney Todd Stella Rho as Mrs. Lovatt John Singer as Tobias Ragg Eve Lister as Johanna Oakley Bruce Seton as Mark Ingerstreet D. J. Williams as Stephen Oakley Davina Craig as Nan Jerry Verno as Pearley Graham Soutten (credited as Ben Souten) as Beadle Billy Holland as Mr. Parsons Norman Pierce as Mr. Findlay Aubrey Mallalieu as Trader Paterson
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