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  1. Running time. 71 minutes [2] Country. United Kingdom. Language. English. 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 .

  2. The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: Directed by George King. With Tod Slaughter, Stella Rho, John Singer, Eve Lister. A Fleet Street barber recounts the story of Sweeney Todd, a notorious barber who in the last century murdered many customers for their money.

    • (1.5K)
    • Crime, Drama
    • George King
    • 1936-06-29
  3. Recently viewed. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: Directed by Terry Hughes. With Angela Lansbury, George Hearn, Cris Groenendaal, Sara Woods. Barber Sweeney Todd returns to London to uncover the past, along the way meeting pie shop owner Mrs. Nellie Lovett, and begins to start his life of crime.

    • (3.9K)
    • Terry Hughes
    • Not Rated
  4. 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 ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Plot. The film starts in 1936 as a barber tells a patron the story of the infamous Sweeney Todd. In 1836, Sweeney Todd (Tod Slaughter) is a barber with a shop near the docks of London. One day, as the mercantile ship The Golden Hope readies to leave, Todd watches Johanna Oakley (Eve Lister) and Mark Ingerstreet (Bruce Seton).

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  8. His achievement with Sweeney Todd was to draw parallels between this Victoriana and the contemporary society of 1930s Britain. This is established by the framing story of a man going to a barbershop in modern day Fleet Street, only to be told by the barber that he is on the site of where Sweeney Todd's nefarious activities took place 100 years ago.

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