| Release Date: | Mar 1936 |
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| Genres: | Crime / Horror |
| Runtime: | 76 min |
| Cast: | Tod Slaughter (Sweeney Todd), Stella Rho (Mrs. Lovatt) John Singer (Tobias Rag) Eve Lister (Johanna Oakley) Bruce Seton (Mark Ingerstreet) D.J. Williams (Stephen Oakley) Davina Craig (Nan) Jerry Verno (Stanley Pearley) Graham Soutten (The Beadle) Billy Holland (Parsons, the fence) Norman Pierce (Mr. Findlay) Aubrey Mallalieu (Trader Paterson) Henry B. Longhurst (Man On The Quayside Who Talks To...) Ben Williams (Captain Stephenson (uncredited)) |
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.
