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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 doesn't appear in later stage versions of the Sweeney Todd legend. It was filmed entirely on set at Islington Studios.




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
Zoe Palmer as 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






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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