Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde( 1971)

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PARENTS: Be sure your children are sufficiently mature to witness the intimate details of this frank and revealing film.

Overview

In foggy London Dr Jekyll experiments on newly deceased women determined to discover an elixir for immortal life. Success enables his spectacular transformation into the beautiful but psychotic Sister Hyde who stalks the dark alleys of Whitechapel for young, innocent, female victims, ensuring continuation of the bloodstained research. With each transformation Sister Hyde becomes the more dominant personality, determined to eventually suppress the frail, ineffectual Dr Jekyll forever.

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Ralph Bates
Dr. Jekyll
Martine Beswick
Sister Hyde
Gerald Sim
Professor Robertson
Lewis Fiander
Howard
Susan Brodrick
Susan
Dorothy Alison
Mrs. Spencer
Ivor Dean
Burke
Philip Madoc
Byker
Irene Bradshaw
Yvonne
Neil Wilson
Older Policeman
Paul Whitsun-Jones
Sergeant Danvers
Tony Calvin
Hare
Dan Meaden
Town Crier
Virginia Wetherell
Betsy
Geoffrey Kenion
1st Policeman
Bobby Parr
Young Apprentice
John Lyons
Sailor

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A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on Mon Nov 04 2013

Hammer’s Gender Bending of the Robert Louis Stevenson Story Is Deliciously Entertaining. Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde is directed by Roy Ward Baker and written by Brian Clemens. It stars Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick, Gerald Sim, Lewis Fiander, Susan Brodrick and Dorothy Alison. Music is by David Whitaker and cinematography by Norman Warwick. Dr. Henry Shekel (Bates) is working on an elixir that he hopes will be the answer to longevity of life. The answer he believes is to be found in female hormones taken from cadavers sent his way by Burke and Hare. Unfortunately, when the doctor resorts...