Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 1982 TV, 150 min. Genre: Musical / Drama / Horror / Thriller
Director: Terry Hughes, Harold Prince Cast: Angela Lansbury, George Hearn, Sara Woods, Cris Groenendaal, Edmund Lyndeck, Calvin Remsberg, Betsy Joslyn, Ken Jennings, Sal Mistretta, Spain Logue, Walter Charles, Michael Kalinyen, Skip Harris, Duane Morris, Roy Gioconda
This film of the 1979 Tony Award-winning play involves the barber Benjamin Barker who assumes the name of Sweeney Todd (George Hearn). He comes home after serving 15 years in prison and vows revenge against the evil Judge Turpin (Edmund Lyndeck) who sent him away. Not only did Turpin rape Todd's wife, which caused her to commit suicide; now he has adopted Todd's daughter Johanna (Betsy Joslyn). Todd puts his plan into action: as a barber he will cut more than Todd's and other customers' hair, and then Mrs. Lovett (Angela Lansbury) will bake his victims in her meat pies.
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