Dr. Henry Jekyll experimentiert mit wissenschaftlichen Mitteln, um die verborgene, dunkle Seite des Menschen aufzudecken, und befreit einen Mörder aus sich heraus.Dr. Henry Jekyll experimentiert mit wissenschaftlichen Mitteln, um die verborgene, dunkle Seite des Menschen aufzudecken, und befreit einen Mörder aus sich heraus.Dr. Henry Jekyll experimentiert mit wissenschaftlichen Mitteln, um die verborgene, dunkle Seite des Menschen aufzudecken, und befreit einen Mörder aus sich heraus.
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Handlung
WUSSTEST DU SCHON:
- WissenswertesChristopher Lee's role as Paul Allen in the film was written especially for him and was one of his personal favorites.
- Zitate
Dr. Henry Jekyll: [to Litauer] This moral quibbling is useless. Man as he is comprises two beings: one of whom I call man as he could be. In his perfection this inner man is beyond good and evil.
Dr. Ernst Littauer: And the other man?
Dr. Henry Jekyll: He, too, is beyond good and evil - man as he would be... free of all the restictions society imposes on us... subject only to his own will.
- Crazy CreditsRobert Louis Stevenson, the author of the novella that this film was based on, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), was never mentioned in its credits. Because Stevenson's novella was already in the public domain by that time and because Stevenson himself was long since dead (he had died in 1894), Hammer obviously felt no obligation to mention him in them at all.
- Alternative VersionenExtensive cuts to the original UK theatrical version of the film were made by the BBFC in order to shorten the scenes where Maria dances with a snake, the scenes of brief nudity during Hyde's bedroom scene with Maria and the scene of Hyde strangling her. The 2010 U.S. Sony DVD version of it, however, which was released as one of the four films in the box set "Icons of Horror Collection: Hammer Films", features its restored and uncut UK theatrical version.
- VerbindungenFeatured in Movie Macabre: The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll (1986)
Believing the human mind to consist of two personalities from opposite sides of the spectrum - good and evil - outcast Dr. Jekyll (Paul Massie) sets out to separate the two in order to help mankind embrace the good. Living almost in solitude, he neglects his wife Kitty (Dawn Addams), a promiscuous, spoilt woman currently embarking on an affair with her husband's best friend, Paul Allen (Christopher Lee). Jekyll drinks his newly created potion and Hyde emerges, introducing himself at a social gathering with swagger and charm (and getting into a fight with a young Oliver Reed). There he meets Paul and Kitty, who don't recognise him, and begins to toy with the two of them, all the while indulging on the many seductive pleasures of London.
Although it's difficult to believe that Jekyll's wife and best friend wouldn't recognise him without his ludicrous fake beard and mono- brow, The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll is a enjoyable romp from start to finish. Massie is clearly having a ball in the dual role, and convinces as Hyde grows bored with money, gambling and women, and soon turns to darker alternatives, notably murder and manipulation. It doesn't pull it's punches either, portraying Hyde's journey into the further extremities of debauchery as intoxicating as Hyde clearly finds it, featuring the odd swear word and a scene of heavily implied rape. Special mention must also go to the recently departed Lee, who somehow finds a shred of sympathy for his cocky and pathetic rich boy character. One of Hammer's most effortlessly gratifying gems.
- tomgillespie2002
- 9. Juli 2015
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- Herkunftsland
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- The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
- Drehorte
- Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire, England, Vereinigtes Königreich(Main Filming Studio)
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- Budget
- 146.417 £ (geschätzt)
- Laufzeit1 Stunde 28 Minuten
- Seitenverhältnis
- 2.35 : 1