Sweeney Todd (1928 film)
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Sweeney Todd is a 1928 British
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 doesn't appear in later stage versions of the Sweeney Todd legend.[2][3] It was filmed entirely on set at Islington Studios
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Plot
A barber named Sweeney Todd slits the throats of his unsuspecting customers, robs them and then dumps their bodies down into his cellar through a trapdoor. He and his partner in crime, Mrs. Lovett, cut up the bodies and use the pieces to make meat pies which she then sells in her bakery shop. In the end, it all turns out to be just a bad dream.
Cast
- Moore Marriott as Sweeney Todd
- Iris Darbyshire as Amelia Lovett
- Judd Green as Simon Podge
- Charles Ashton as Mark Ingestre
- Johanna
- Philip Hewland as Ben Wagstaffe
- Harry Lorraine as Mick Todd
- Brian Glenny as Tobias Wragg
- Lucius Blake as Sambo (credited as J. Blake)
References
- ^ Low p.460
- ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
- ^ "Sweeney Todd (1928)". bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 15 January 2009. Retrieved 18 November 2010.
Bibliography
- Low, Rachel. The History of British Film: Volume IV, 1918–1929. Routledge, 1997.
- Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
External links
- Sweeney Todd at IMDb
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