Sweeney Tood the demon barber of Fleet Street

The legend tells that a dark secret barber existed in the London of the 19th century. Benjamin Barker came to the port of the English city accompanied of the marine young man Anthony (who rescued Barker of the sea) after fifteen years arrested by a crime that he did not commit. To his return he went to look for his dear one, who committed suicide soon after being caught, and for his daughter Johanna. The custody of the daughter was given to the judge who had sent her father to jail. Benjamin Barker, now Sweeney Todd, decided to take the revenge on his hand. He rented the floor of above of the house where he lived with his wife, who now belonged to lady Lovett, owner of the pastry shop of the floor of below. They fall in love and Sweeney opens the devilish barber's shop in the Fleet Street.

The barber's shop obtains reputation in the city due to the fact that Todd left in ridiculously an Italian barber, who admitted that he was Benjamin Barker and he gives him an ultimatum: half of the money or he will tell him the whole London that he does not call himself Todd, but Barker. Todd cut the neck of the Italian in the barber's shop. Sweeney and the lady Lovett do not know how to get rid of the body and they get the idea of using it to make pies. This way they decide that Sweeney will devote himself to cut the neck to the clients of the barber's shop of the street Fleet and lady Lovett to turn them into pastry and to sell them in the famous pastry shop. This way he managed to kill the judge Turpin and to satisfy his thirst of revenge.

One night a mad old woman came to the barber's shop and discovered his business, Sweeney and Lovett decide to kill her. After killing the mad woman, Lady Lovett informs him that she had lied to him, and, in fact, he had killed his own wife. She confesses to him that she did it for love but he cannot excuse her and kills her. Then the boy who worked for him took out his silver razor and killed him.

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