The Tale of Sweeney Todd

Fernsehfilm
1997
1 Std. 32 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,1/10

876

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Dark Comedy Crime Drama Horror Thriller

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuWhen a merchant goes missing, a young American investigates the disappearance and discovers the truth about Sweeney Todd, a skilled barber, and his business partner Mrs. Lovett, a butcher.When a merchant goes missing, a young American investigates the disappearance and discovers the truth about Sweeney Todd, a skilled barber, and his business partner Mrs. Lovett, a butcher.When a merchant goes missing, a young American investigates the disappearance and discovers the truth about Sweeney Todd, a skilled barber, and his business partner Mrs. Lovett, a butcher.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,1/10

876

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Auszeichnungen
- 3 Nominierungen insgesamt

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The final movie of Peter Jeffrey (Dr. Maxwell).

Verbindungen
Version of Sweeney Todd (1926)

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9/10

One of the two better versions of a classic tale

This TV-movie ranks as one of the two best versions of the classic tale of Sweeney Todd, the other one being - of course - the 1936 black-&-white movie starring Tod Slaughter.Ben Kingsley and Joanna Lumley are terrific - and their approach of the famous characters is in the true spirit of horror melodrama: a perilous "exercice de style" between horror and comedy. All the other actors are excellent, the sets are wonderful in their creepiness, a touch of gore is added to good measure, and Schlesinger's direction is faultless. This TV-movie could be shown in movie theaters, as a "legitimate" picture - in fact, it's well above most of the current movies...

Incidentally, this version is an Irish-British coproduction, certainly not "an American production" as wrongly mentioned in some posts.