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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936 film) (1936)

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936 film) poster
Original title
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Directed by
George King
Genre
horror film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 16m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 51 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A barber in Victorian London secretly murders his customers and sells their bodies to a pie shop. The film follows his crimes and eventual downfall.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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