Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)
Genre: Crime / Horror
Duration: 76 minuten
Country:
United Kingdom
Directed by: George King
Stars: Tod Slaughter, Stella Rho and John Singer
IMDb score:
5,8 (1.703)
Releasedate: 1 March 1936
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street plot
A hairdresser on the famous Fleet Street tells one of his clients the story of a dangerous colleague who murdered several of his clients in the last century and ran off with their money.
Actors and actresses
Sweeney Todd
Mrs Lovatt
Tobias Rag
Johanna Oakle
Mark
Stephen Oakley
Nan
Pearley
Beadle (as Ben Souten)
Mr. Parsons
Reviews & comments
Aapje81
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- 2227 messages
- 5200 votes
I only knew Sweeney Todd through the Tim Burton movie with Johnny Depp. I was delighted to see that the 1936 original is now available on Netflix.
With not too high expectations but with good will I started this and at times I enjoyed it quite a bit. This Sweeney Todd is seriously worn and quite theatrical, but I can imagine that it was enjoyed with great pleasure in the 1930s. I found the revolving chair especially spectacular for the time and reminded me a bit of the work of Buster Keaton.
In terms of content, the first half hour was entertaining, but after that it becomes a repetition exercise and the charm of the film diminishes slightly. Certainly not a great film, but creative and original enough to later inspire others to make much nicer and better films.
As said for the enthusiast, it can now be seen on Netflix.
Nice to have seen once but no more than that.
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Sergio Leone
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- 4431 messages
- 3111 votes
Not good.
Dated crime film. At the time it may have been sold as "horror", but time has really caught up with that. It remains a somewhat clumsy film, in which a strange hairdresser gets up to all sorts of things and can laugh heartily about it himself. The version by Tim Burton was the only one I knew until recently and it is still a lot better than this attempt.
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