Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde
PARENTS: Be sure your children are sufficiently mature to witness the intimate details of this frank and revealing film.
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.
- 6.1
- 1971
- Released
- 1h 37m
Ralph Bates
Dr. Jekyll
Martine Beswick
Sister Hyde
Gerald Sim
Professor Robertson
Lewis Fiander
Howard
Susan Brodrick
Susan
Dorothy Alison
Mrs. SpencerIvor Dean
Burke
Philip Madoc
BykerIrene Bradshaw
Yvonne
Neil Wilson
Older Policeman
Paul Whitsun-Jones
Sergeant DanversTony Calvin
HareDan Meaden
Town Crier
Virginia Wetherell
BetsyGeoffrey Kenion
1st PolicemanBobby Parr
Young Apprentice
John Lyons
Sailor
Released
en
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- #sex change
- #victorian england
- #murder
- #jekyll and hyde
- #evil woman
- #eternal life
- #victorian era
Reviews
_**What if Dr. Jekyll morphed into an alluring woman rather than a monster?**_ In the late 1880s, murders of prostitutes start piling up in the Whitechapel district of east London where a professor (Gerald Sim) starts to suspect a colleague (Ralph Bates), who’s working on a curious elixir of life that needs female hormones taken from fresh cadavers. Martine Beswick plays Jekyll’s “sister.”
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 t