Tod Slaughter Triple Feature ( Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street / Crimes at the Dark House / Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn )

Tod Slaughter Triple Feature (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street / Crimes at the Dark House / Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
Language Selections:
English ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
205 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1935 - 1940 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
George King
Milton Rosmer

Written By:
Frederick Hayward
H.F. Maltby
Wilkie Collins
Edward Dryhurst
Randall Faye

Actors:
Tod Slaughter ..... Sweeney Todd
Stella Rho ..... Mrs. Lovatt
John Singer ..... Tobias
Eve Lister ..... Johanna
Bruce Seton ..... Mark
D.J. Williams ..... Stephen Oakley
Davina Craig ..... Nan
Jerry Verno ..... Pearley
Graham Soutten ..... Beadle
Billy Holland ..... Mr. Parsons
Norman Pierce ..... Mr. Findlay
Aubrey Mallalieu ..... Trader Paterson
Tod Slaughter ..... The False Sir Percival Glyde
Sylvia Marriott ..... Laurie Fairlie
Anne Catherick ..... Marian Fairlie
Hilary Eaves ..... Paul Hartwright
Geoffrey Wardwell ..... Dr. Isidor Fosco
Hay Petrie ..... Mrs. Bullen
Margaret Yarde ..... Jessica, the Maid
Rita Grant ..... Frederick Fairlie
David Horne ..... Mrs. Catherick
Elsie Wagstaff ..... Lawyer Mr. Merriman
David Keir
Tod Slaughter ..... Squire William Corder
Sophie Stewart ..... Maria Marten
D.J. Williams ..... Farmer Thomas Marten
Eric Portman ..... Carlos, the gypsy
Clare Greet ..... Mrs. Marten
Gerard Tyrell ..... Timothy Winterbottom
Ann Trevor ..... Nan, the maid
Stella Rho ..... Gypsy Crone
Dennis Hoey ..... Gambling Winner
Quentin McPhearson ..... Matthew Sennett
Antonia Brough ..... Maud Sennett
Noel Dainton ..... Officer Steele of the Bow Street Runners
J. Leslie Frith ..... Lawyer
Herbert Leonard ..... Compere
Lester Sharpe ..... Bandleader Withey

Synopsis:

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)
London's dockside is teeming with ships and sailors who have made their fortune in foreign lands. Sweeney Todd, a Fleet Street barber, awaits the arrival of men whose first port of call is for a good, close shave. For most it will be the last time they are seen alive as Sweeney Todd robs them of their new found fortunes and chops their remains into small pieces. Meanwhile, Mrs Lovett from next door is enjoying a roaring trade for her popular penny meat pies...
Crimes at the Dark House (1940)
In the gold fields of Australia, Sir Percival Glyde is murdered by the hammering of a tent peg through his ear. Tod Slaughter assumes the identity of Sir Percival's estate in London. He schemes a marriage to Laurie Fairlie, (Sylvia Marriott), the daughter of wealthy man and plans to murder his new wife and substitute her with the deranged and dying daughter of the real Sir Glyde. But will his double deception be uncovered?
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn (1935)
In Maria Marten, Squire William Corder, (Tod Slaughter) wins the affection of Maria Marten, (Sophie Stewart), but their happiness is cut short when she falls pregnant and demands that Corder marry her. At first he agrees, but his wicked mind is planning her murder in the Red Barn...

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)
In the Nineteenth Century, in London, the barber Sweeney Todd invites lonely and wealthy costumers in the port to his barbershop on the nearby Fleet Street and murders them to take their money, while his associate Mrs. Lovatt and owner of a bakery below is barbershop gets rid off the bodies. Sweeney uses his fortune to help the fleet owner Stephen Oakley with the intention to force his daughter Joanna to marry him. However, the beloved Joanna's boyfriend Mark Ingerstreet returns rich from his last voyage and Sweeney decides to kill him and steal his fortune in pearl, making Mrs. Lovatt jealous with the situation.
Crimes at the Dark House (1940)
A madman murders Sir Percival Glyde. Taking on his victim's identity, the man returns to the Glyde ancestral home, Blackwater Park, in hopes of claiming a large inheritance. However, the estate is heavily in debt. Still hungry for wealth, the false "Glyde" takes advantage of a long-standing betrothal promise to marry young and beautiful heiress Laurie Fairlie. Having his true identity revealed could ruin everything, but this lascivious and diabolical "Glyde" is more than willing to kill anyone who stands in his way... This story is loosely based on Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White.
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn (1935)
In his film debut, Tod Slaughter, plays William Corderes, the lover who seduces then murders innocent country maiden Maria Marten (Sophie Stewart) in the red barn before burying her body beneath the barn floor.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)
A Fleet Street barber recounts the story of Sweeney Todd, a notorious barber who in the last century murdered many customers for their money.
Crimes at the Dark House (1940)
A madman kills a man who has just inherited a large estate, then impersonates his victim to gain entrance to the estate so he can murder his enemies.
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn (1935)
In 1820's rural England, a young girl is tricked by tales of marriage by a villainous Squire, and when she becomes pregnant, and disappears, a gipsy lad is blamed.

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