Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 76m
Director: George King
Cast: Tod Slaughter, Bruce Seton, Stella Rho
Synopsis:
A nefarious barber in nineteenth century London has a quaint arrangement with the pie-maker in the basement of his shop: he slits the throats of rich customers, pockets their money and provides her with pie filling.
Review:
Being the role that made its star famous, this historic version of the classic Victorian melodrama has some curiosity value for the modern viewer, in terms of acting styles and how previous film-makers skirted the more lurid aspects of such an obscene piece of theatre.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 76m
Director: George King
Cast: Tod Slaughter, Bruce Seton, Stella Rho
Synopsis:
A nefarious barber in nineteenth century London has a quaint arrangement with the pie-maker in the basement of his shop: he slits the throats of rich customers, pockets their money and provides her with pie filling.
Review:
Being the role that made its star famous, this historic version of the classic Victorian melodrama has some curiosity value for the modern viewer, in terms of acting styles and how previous film-makers skirted the more lurid aspects of such an obscene piece of theatre.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 76m
Director: George King
Cast: Tod Slaughter, Bruce Seton, Stella Rho
Synopsis:
A nefarious barber in nineteenth century London has a quaint arrangement with the pie-maker in the basement of his shop: he slits the throats of rich customers, pockets their money and provides her with pie filling.
Review:
Being the role that made its star famous, this historic version of the classic Victorian melodrama has some curiosity value for the modern viewer, in terms of acting styles and how previous film-makers skirted the more lurid aspects of such an obscene piece of theatre.