Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

Date: 2007
Director: Tim Burton
Production Company: Dreamworks Pictures, Warner Bros., Parkes/MacDonald Image Nation

Stars: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen
Location(s): Buckinghamshire (Studio)

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Storyline:

A barber returns to London after being wrongfully transported and forms a sinister partnership before taking revenge on the judge who stole his wife.

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Tower Bridge opens as a ship approaches London to dock in the Upper Pool. None of it is real . . . the whole film was shot on sets at Pinewood Studios accompanied by CGI trickery.

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Stepping ashore, Sweeney Todd casts his eyes over the city that he left many years before.

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Sweeney Todd (Johnny Depp) strides away from the ship leaving his seafaring companion Anthony Hope (Jamie Campbell Bower) to make his own way.

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Walking from the quay, Todd reaches his old premises above Nellie Lovett's pie shop on Fleet Street.

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Beadle Bamford (Timothy Spall) lures Lucy Barker (Laura Michelle Kelly) into the corrupt Judge Turpin's house.

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On the street outside Turpin's house, Anthony pauses to read before hearing the angelic voice of Johanna Barker singing.

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Todd and Nellie visit St. Dunstan's Market to see his tonsorial competition. Although St. Dunstan's is real enough and stands on Fleet Street, St. Dunstan's Market is fictional, the nearest market being Leadenhall Market.

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On a stage in a corner of the market, Toby Ragg (Ed Sanders) drums up trade before the appearance of his master, a barber calling himself Adolfo Pirelli.

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In court, Judge Turpin sentences a Young Boy to death for a relatively minor misdemeanour.

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While picnicking with Mr. Todd and Toby, Nellie Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter) dreams of an idyllic life with the barber.

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Toby looks out to sea before catching up with the couple as they walk towards land.

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Black smoke billows from the chimneys of Mrs. Lovett's pie shop as Todd climbs the steps towards his modified chair with Beadle Bamford.