Sweeney Todd the demon barber of Fleet Street [videorecording] :
Demon barber of Fleet Street
Dreamworks Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Parkes/MacDonald Production ; a Zanuck Company production ; produced by John Logan, Laurie MacDonald, Walter Parkes, Richard D. Zanuck ; screenplay by John Logan ; directed by Tim Burton.
- Widescreen format (1.85:1); 2-disc special ed.
- Hollywood, Calif. : DreamWorks Home Entertainment, 2008.
- 2 videodiscs (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2007. Based on the musical : Sweeney Todd / by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler and the musical adaptation by Christopher Bond. Special features (disc 1): "Burton + Depp + Carter = Todd" making-of featurette (26 min.). Special features (disc 2): "Sweeney Todd press conference" (20 min.); "Sweeney is alive: the real history of the demon barber" fact and fiction featurette (20 min.); "Musical mayhem: Sondheim's Sweeney Todd" (12 min.); "Sweeney's London" historical featurette (16 min.); "The making of Sweeney Todd" (25 min.); "Grand Guignol: a theatrical tradition" horror theater featurette (20 min.); "Designs for a Demon Barber" production short (8 min.); "A bloody business" effects, makeup, and prosthetics short (9 min.); "Moviefone unscripted with Tim Burton and Johnny Depp" interview (12 min.); "The razor's refrain" song with production stills montage (9 min.); photo gallery; theatrical trailer (3 min.).
A musical adaptation of the story of Sweeney Todd, a man sent to prison 15 years earlier, who returns to exact revenge on those who ruined his life, especially the evil Judge Turpin. Returning to his old neighborhood with his old life destroyed, he opens a barber shop as the instrument of his plot. With the help of his new and amorous accomplice Mrs. Lovett, owner of the downstairs pie shop and in need of better ingredients, Todd works his way through his list of enemies.
1415738920 9781415738924
097361321547
13215 DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Todd, Sweeney (Legendary character)
Barbers--England--London
Serial murderers
Ex-convicts--Psychology
Judicial error
Revenge
Cannibalism
Meat grinders
Man-woman relationships
Fathers and daughters
Prisoners' families
Children of prisoners
Barberia--Inglaterra--London
Delitos--Inglaterra--London
Fleet Street (London, England)
Swe 35
Originally released as a motion picture in 2007. Based on the musical : Sweeney Todd / by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler and the musical adaptation by Christopher Bond. Special features (disc 1): "Burton + Depp + Carter = Todd" making-of featurette (26 min.). Special features (disc 2): "Sweeney Todd press conference" (20 min.); "Sweeney is alive: the real history of the demon barber" fact and fiction featurette (20 min.); "Musical mayhem: Sondheim's Sweeney Todd" (12 min.); "Sweeney's London" historical featurette (16 min.); "The making of Sweeney Todd" (25 min.); "Grand Guignol: a theatrical tradition" horror theater featurette (20 min.); "Designs for a Demon Barber" production short (8 min.); "A bloody business" effects, makeup, and prosthetics short (9 min.); "Moviefone unscripted with Tim Burton and Johnny Depp" interview (12 min.); "The razor's refrain" song with production stills montage (9 min.); photo gallery; theatrical trailer (3 min.).
A musical adaptation of the story of Sweeney Todd, a man sent to prison 15 years earlier, who returns to exact revenge on those who ruined his life, especially the evil Judge Turpin. Returning to his old neighborhood with his old life destroyed, he opens a barber shop as the instrument of his plot. With the help of his new and amorous accomplice Mrs. Lovett, owner of the downstairs pie shop and in need of better ingredients, Todd works his way through his list of enemies.
1415738920 9781415738924
097361321547
13215 DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Todd, Sweeney (Legendary character)
Barbers--England--London
Serial murderers
Ex-convicts--Psychology
Judicial error
Revenge
Cannibalism
Meat grinders
Man-woman relationships
Fathers and daughters
Prisoners' families
Children of prisoners
Barberia--Inglaterra--London
Delitos--Inglaterra--London
Fleet Street (London, England)
Swe 35