Sweeney Todd (1928)
A man dreams he is the 'demon barber' who cuts sailors' throats for jewels and uses the corpses for pies.
- Date of release
- 1928-09-27
- TMDB
- 5.3 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 49m
- Genres
- Drama, Horror
- Director
- Walter West
Casting
- Moore Marriott — Sweeney Todd
- Iris Darbyshire — Amelia Lovett
- Judd Green — Simon Podge
- Charles Ashton — Mark Ingestre
- Zoe Palmer — Johanna
- Philip Hewland — Ben Wagstaffe
- Harry Lorraine — Mick Todd
- Brian Glenny — Tobias Wragg
Interesting facts
- Based on: The String of Pearls or the Fiend of Fleet Street
Sweeney Todd is a 1928 British silent crime film directed by Walter West and starring Moore Marriott, Judd Green and Iris Darbyshire. It was adapted from a popular 1847 stage play by George Dibdin-Pitt called The String of Pearls, or The Fiend of Fleet Street, which in turn was based on an anonymous story called The String of Pearls: A Romance that was serialized in magazine format in 1846. This was the first time the story was adapted into a play, and it featured a surprise twist ending that does not appear in later stage versions of the Sweeney Todd legend. It was filmed entirely on set at Islington Studios.
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