The story of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1968)

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Movie
German title The story of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Original title The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Country of production USA , Canada
original language English
Publishing year 1968
length 120 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Charles Jarrott
script Ian McLellan Hunter
production Dan Curtis
music Bob Cobert
occupation

The story of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde ( The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ) is an American-Canadian television film from 1968 . Directed by Charles Jarrott . The title role of the horror film based on the novella The Strange Case by Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from Robert Louis Stevenson played Jack Palance .

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The ambitious Dr. Henry Jekyll doggedly seeks a way to isolate the evil in the human soul.

In his laboratory, Dr. Jekyll has found the right serum and tests it on himself. Shaken by severe pain and cramps, he loses consciousness and does not come to until the next morning in his bed.

In his attempts to reconstruct the events of the previous evening, he comes to Tessie O'Toole's tavern, where a man named Edward Hyde, who is said to resemble the doctor slightly, has celebrated so exuberantly that the pretty dancers of him the next day rave.

Jekyll returns to his laboratory and revises the mixture again and can henceforth remember everything that happened after ingestion. In the near future, Mr. Hyde will be visiting the establishment very often. Since he was particularly fond of the dancer Gwyn, he rents her an apartment in the Soho district.

The ecstatic rush of freedom that Dr. Jekyll feels whether his double life soon gives way to cruel disillusionment and bitter feelings of guilt, because Mr. Hyde, untouched by custom, morality and decency, becomes more and more uncontrollable, one evening he brutally beats Sir Thurnbull, with whom Jekyll had a dispute, and murders him in an argument eventually even Gwyn's jealous ex-boyfriend.

Wanted for assault and murder, Hyde has to disappear, but then Jekyll begins to transform spontaneously without drinking the elixir, as is the case with Gwyn. (After Hyde beat her up in a fit of raging jealousy, he visited her as Jekyll and took care of her. However, when Gwyn started flirting with the Doctor, Hyde's jealous nature awoke and he strangled her.) He escapes from the crime scene to his laboratory, Will but by Mr. Stryker, the pharmacist who Dr. Jekyll supplied with chemicals, observed.

Jekyll's situation is getting worse by the hour, he needs increasing doses of his serum to stay Jekyll. He tries to make more of it, but the new mixtures don't work, the desperate Jekyll discovers that one of the original ingredients was minimally contaminated, which happened to lead to the transformation effect. Jekyll tries to get supplies of the original ingredient from Stryker, but when he tries to take advantage of the doctor's delicate condition and blackmail him, Hyde breaks out again and kills him.

Eventually the elixir is used up and Dr. Henry Jekyll has ceased to exist, now Mr. Hyde tries George Devlin, a friend of Jekyll's whom he has confided in, as the last living initiate, but is shot by the police when he tries.

Awards

In 1968, Tessie O'Shea was nominated for an Emmy for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama .

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  • The film was originally supposed to be shot in the US with Jason Robards in the title role. After this production was canceled, however, the project was relocated to Canada and Jack Palance took over the part.
  • Lead actor Jack Palance broke his left arm during filming. If you look closely at the last scenes, you notice that Mr. Hyde only works with his right arm.
  • The Mr. Hyde make-up comes from Oscar winner Dick Smith . To improve his appearance as Dr. To make Jekyll more personable, Smith Palance "corrected" his broken nose with an extremely subtle mask part.
  • The look of Mr. Hyde has also been completely redesigned. While Robards' make-up was very similar to that of John Barrymore from the silent film version from 1920, the new mask was more like a satyr .

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