Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

(1936)

68 minutes

Crime / Horror

Directed by George King

Cast:

Tod Slaughter as Sweeney Todd 
Stella Rho as Mrs. Lovatt 
Johnny Singer as Tobias Rag  
Eve Lister as Johanna Oakley 
Bruce Seton as Mark Ingerstreet 
D.J. Williams as Stephen Oakley 
Davina Craig as Nan 
Jerry Verno as Stanley Pearley 
Graham Soutten as The Beadle  
Billy Holland as Parsons, the fence 
Norman Pierce as Mr. Findlay 
Aubrey Mallalieu as Trader Paterson 

Tod Slaughter plays the barber Sweeney Todd who lives in London. He has a barbershop near Fleet Street, where he invites lonely and rich costumers and kills them in order to steal their money. Mrs. Lovatt is the owner of the bakery below his barbershop and helps Sweeney Todd by getting rid of the bodies. Sweeney is determined to marry the fleet owner Stephen Oakley’s daughter, Joanna and uses the money he steals to help him out. Problems arise for Sweeney when Joanna’s boyfriend Mark Ingerstreet becomes rich, leading to Sweeney to kill him and steal his money.