Schlesinger's film is a dramatic departure from the previous narratives. Christopher Bond's 1973 stage adaptation was musicalized by Stephen Sondheim in 1979. A 1936 British film directed by George King was the first screen version. In 1847, George Dibdin Pitt adapted the story for a stage melodrama. The character of Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, originated in an 1846–47 penny dreadful entitled The String of Pearls. Charlie gives Carlyle the keys to the safe. He then frees Carlyle, who sets the building on fire before escaping with the boy.
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Charlie, who has managed to free himself from his shackles, stabs Todd in the back, killing him. As he prepares his instruments to torture Carlyle to death, he explains what led him to a life of murder and cannibalism. Shortly after, she is arrested.Ĭarlyle then heads over to the barber shop to confront Todd, who overpowers and binds him. Lovett, who tries to kill him but is knocked out and left to hang on a meat rack. There he makes a gruesome discovery that spurs him to confront Mrs.
Lovett's pies are all but confirmed by a chemist, he hides himself in a burlap sack and has himself deposited in her pie shop cellar with a delivery of meat. When his suspicions about the ingredients of Mrs. Meanwhile, Carlyle is seeking the assistance of the corrupt local police and an amiable serving wench named Alice, who happens to be Todd's ward, with his quest. Realizing his dastardly deeds are in danger of being revealed, Todd imprisons the boy in his basement. Mannheim's staff advises Carlyle that their boss disappeared without a trace weeks earlier, and he posts notices offering a reward for information leading to Mannheim's discovery.Ĭharlie (Sean Flanagan), a mute orphan who works as an assistant to Todd, recognizes Mannheim as a man the barber had shaved just prior to his disappearance. Lovett ( Joanna Lumley), who uses them to prepare meat pies for her unsuspecting clientele.Īmerican Ben Carlyle ( Campbell Scott) arrives in the city to track down wealthy diamond merchant Alfred Mannheim and $50,000 worth of diamonds he had sold to Carlyle's employers but failed to deliver. Set in 18th Century London, the story focuses on Sweeney Todd ( Ben Kingsley), a murderous barber whose business provides him with two profitable sidelines, the sale of his victims' jewelry and the disposal of their bodies to his mistress Mrs.
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