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Benjamin Barker

Some say he was a historical person who lived in London in the 19th century. Others claim he was just the fictional character who first appeared in The String of Pearls, a penny part serial published somewhere around 1846-1847.
He was a barber who returned illegaly to England after he’d been deported on a trumped-up charge by a judge who wanted to steal his beautiful wife. With the assistance of his partner in crime, Mrs Lovett, he sets up a new life under a new name, he is now called Sweeney Todd. His razors are his weapon of choice, as he murders his wealthy customers by slitting their throats, then pulling a lever while they are in his barber’s chair which, unknown to them, is fixed to a revolving trap-door, making them fall backward into the basement. Then Mrs Lovett takes over by turning the dead bodies into meat pies and selling them to the unsuspecting customers of her pie shop.

Highly recommended:
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (1936), a film version of the Victorian melodrama starring Tod Slaughter as Sweeney Todd and Stella Rho as Mrs. “Lovatt”.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. A Musical Thriller (1979), televised in 1982, the acclaimed musical adaptation play by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler starring George Hearn and Angela Lansbury in outstanding performances.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), the ultimate version, a Tim Burton film starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.

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Benjamin Barker belongs to the following groups:

1 on 1: The Fine Art of Portraiture , ! ♦♣♠♥Ȃll Things Black ♥♠♣♦ !, !* Dark Cabaret *!, ! 100% !, ! Inspired Art !, ! ☠ Gothic Skull Fire ☠ !, "Exceptional Ekphrasis", ***♂♥♥QUORN♥♥♀, All Around the Styles, Alt, Back In Black ( sorry~NO PHOTOGRAPHY), Blast from the Past, Core [C.O.R.E], Dark artists, dark art, Eat Sleep Draw, Eerie Lighting, EMI - The Group, FAN FRENZY, Fine Arts, Fine Arts Influenced by Literature, Finks of Inks, Friends of RedBubble, HALLOWEEN, Hombres Fatal, HORRORAMA, Immortal Love, International Superheroes of Drawing, Illustration and World Domination, Painters In Modern Times - TWO PER DAY, Practising the Dark Arts, Realist Traditional Art, Self Expression, Shameless Self-Promotion, The Burton Effect and Villains and Villainesses: The darker side...