Thread: Older version of Sweeney Todd

If you want to see something really good check out the two productions of Sweeny Todd on DVD. One done with Angela Lansbury here , and one with Patti Lu Pone in the other here. Way better than the Johnny Depp rendition which was over the top with the gore IMHO.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

If you want to see something really good check out the two productions of Sweeny Todd on DVD. One done with Angela Lansbury here , and one with Patti Lu Pone in the other here. Way better than the Johnny Depp rendition which was over the top with the gore IMHO.

But the gore was half the fun.

I'm with Jimmy and Ursus...

I find this production (on YouTube) with Angela Lansbury and George Hearn to be smashing good...

YMMV.

There is also a non musical BBC version out there somewhere with a guy names winstone or something like that. Its very different also but truer to the original.

I saw Sweeney Todd when the Depp version came out and all I knew was that he was a barber that shaved...cool...I didn't shave for two days after seeing it.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

There is also a non musical BBC version out there somewhere with a guy names winstone or something like that. Its very different also but truer to the original.

In another Sweeny Todd thread back when someone highly recommended that version. I was tempted but it is not musical nor is there a comic theme running through it. So I decided to pass. Without Sondheim's music and the comic aspect of Mrs. Lovett and her meat pies it becomes a horror movie. Reviewers of the DVD on amazon mostly gave it high praise for the performances but also said it was very bloody. I can do without that.