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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: Directed by Tim Burton. With Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall. The legendary tale of a barber who returns from wrongful imprisonment to 1840s London, bent on revenge for the rape and death of his wife, and resumes his trade while forming a sinister partnership with ...
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (often referred to simply as Sweeney Todd) is a 1979 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. It is based on the 1970 play Sweeney Todd by Christopher Bond .
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 2007 musical slasher film directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay by John Logan, based on the stage musical of the same name by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler, which in turn is based on the 1970 play Sweeney Todd by Christopher Bond.
Sep 24, 2023 · Up to the present moment a debate has been going on – whether the demon-barber of Fleet Street had a real-life prototype. For the very first time, a character under the name of Sweeney Todd appeared in the series of Penny Dreadful stories written by Thomas Peckett Prest in 1846.
During a visit to the marketplace, Todd denounces a fraudulent hair tonic by faux-Italian barber Adolfo Pirelli (Sacha Baron Cohen), and humiliates him in a public shaving contest, winning £5 and gaining the attention of Beadle Bamford.
Sweeney enters Mrs. Lovett’s unsanitary pie shop on Fleet Street. She offers him a sample, acknowledging its lack of appeal (“The Worst Pies in London”). He wants to rent her upstairs room, unused since Benjamin Barker—Sweeney’s actual name—was banished to Australia.
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Dec 18, 2008 · Under Victorian London’s leaden clouds, flickering with distant lightning and fed by black-plumed smokestacks, pulp horror’s demon barber—released after 15 years of wrongful imprisonment to find his wife dead of suicide and his innocent daughter entrapped by a predatory judge—steps back into the spotlight in Tim Burton’s riveting film ...
