Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)

Review: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)

Director: George King

Cast: Tod Slaughter, Stella Rho, John Singer, Eve Lister, Bruce Seton,

Tod Slaughter
Tod Slaughter
Stella Rho
Stella Rho
John Singer
John Singer
Eve Lister
Eve Lister
Bruce Seton
Bruce Seton

Plot: It is England in the 1830s. London's dockside is teeming with ships and sailors who have made their fortune in foreign lands. Sweeney Todd, a Fleet Street barber, awaits the arrival of men whose first port of call is for a good, close shave. For most it will be the last time they are seen alive. Using a specially designed barber's chair, Sweeney Todd despatches his victims to the cellar below, where he robs them of their new found fortunes and chops their remains into small pieces. Meanwhile, Mrs Lovett is enjoying a roaring trade for her popular penny meat pies.

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<i>The Criminal Acts of Tod Slaughter</i> on Blu-ray from Indicator

The Criminal Acts of Tod Slaughter on Blu-ray from Indicator

Indicator closed 2023 with one of their finest offerings yet – a four-disk, eight film box set of blood-and-thunder melodramas produced, and mostly directed, by George King and starring the inimitable Tod Slaughter as a roster of heinous […]

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