Sept. 29, 2024

This Day in Halloween: British thriller "The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" premieres in New York City in 1939.

The Demon Barber of Fleet Street premieres in New York City in 1939. The British film opened in the U.K. three years earlier as Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and is the second known of many tellings of the old penny dreadful character in film, TV and stage.