The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)

Director:

Terence Fisher

Writer:

Wolf Mankowitz (screenplay)
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Release Date:

3 May 1961 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Romance | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Sometimes, Terror Has A Handsome Face.

Plot:

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

Plot Keywords:

Snake | Experiment | Gambling Debt | Wastrel | Sex Club

Cast

Paul Massie	...	Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
Dawn Addams	...	Kitty Jekyll
Christopher Lee	...	Paul Allen
David Kossoff	...	Dr. Ernst Litauer
Norma Marla	...	Maria
Francis De Wolff	...	Inspector
Joy Webster	...	Jenny
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Maria Andipa	...	Gypsy Girl (uncredited)
Frank Atkinson	...	Groom (uncredited)
Archie Baker	...	Singer (uncredited)
Glenn Beck	...	Young Blood (uncredited)
John Bonney	...	Renfrew (uncredited)
Ralph Broadbent	...	Singer (uncredited)
Alan Browning	...	Young Blood (uncredited)
Rodney Burke	...	Young Blood (uncredited)
Percy Cartwright	...	Coroner (uncredited)
Dennis Cleary	...	Waiter (uncredited)
Bandana Das Gupta	...	Sphinx Girl (uncredited)
J. Trevor Davies	...	Officer (uncredited)
Roy Denton	...	Business Man (uncredited)
Pauline Dukes	...	Sphinx Girl (uncredited)
Clifford Earl	...	Young Blood (uncredited)
Janina Faye	...	Jane, deafmute child (uncredited)
Felix Felton	...	First Gambler (uncredited)
Kenneth Firth	...	Business Man (uncredited)
Helen Goss	...	Nanny (uncredited)
Walter Gotell	...	Heverton - Second Gambler (uncredited)
Hazel Graeme	...	Sphinx Girl (uncredited)
Lucy Griffiths	...	Tavern Woman (uncredited)
Carole Haynes	...	Sphinx Girl (uncredited)
Prudence Hyman	...	Tavern Woman (uncredited)
Doreen Ismail	...	Second Sphinx Girl (uncredited)
Anthony Jacobs	...	Third Gambler (uncredited)
Josephine Jay	...	Sphinx Girl (uncredited)
William Kendall	...	Clubman (uncredited)
Roberta Kirkwood	...	Second Brass (uncredited)
Jean Long	...	Sphinx Girl (uncredited)
Arthur Lovegrove	...	Cabby (uncredited)
George McGrath	...	Business Man (uncredited)
Alex Miller	...	Singer (uncredited)
Magda Miller	...	Sphinx Girl (uncredited)
John Moore	...	Officer (uncredited)
Anthony Pendrell	...	Cabinet Minister (uncredited)
Oliver Reed	...	Tough (uncredited)
Laurence Richardson	...	Singer (uncredited)
Marilyn Ridge	...	Sphinx Girl (uncredited)
Doug Robinson	...	Boxer (uncredited)
Joe Robinson	...	Corinthian (uncredited)
Gundel Sargent	...	Sphinx Girl (uncredited)
Patricia Sayers	...	Sphinx Girl (uncredited)
Shirli Scott-James	...	Sphinx Girl (uncredited)
Moyna Sharwin	...	Sphinx Girl (uncredited)
Denis Shaw	...	Tavern Customer (uncredited)
Pauline Shepherd	...	Mary, the young prostitute (uncredited)
Fred Stone	...	Cabinet Minister (uncredited)
Donald Tandy	...	Rogers - Plainclothesman (uncredited)
Joan Tyrrell	...	The Major Domo (uncredited)
Mackenzie Ward	...	Business Man (uncredited)
Joyce Wren	...	Nurse (uncredited)

Directed by
Terence Fisher

Writing credits
Wolf Mankowitz		(screenplay)
Robert Louis Stevenson		novel "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (uncredited)

Produced by
Michael Carreras	....	producer
Anthony Nelson Keys	....	associate producer (as Anthony Nelson-Keys)

Original Music by
David Heneker
Monty Norman

Cinematography by
Jack Asher

Film Editing by
Eric Boyd-Perkins

Production Design by
Bernard Robinson

Art Direction by
Don Mingaye

Costume Design by
Mayo

Makeup Department
Roy Ashton	....	makeup artist
Ivy Emmerton	....	hairdresser

Production Management
Clifford Parkes	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
John Peverall	....	assistant director
Hugh Harlow	....	second assistant director (uncredited)

Sound Department
Archie Ludski	....	sound editor
Jock May	....	sound recordist

Camera and Electrical Department
Len Harris	....	camera operator
Tom Edwards	....	still photographer (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Molly Arbuthnot	....	wardrobe supervisor

Editorial Department
James Needs	....	supervising editor

Music Department
David Heneker	....	songs composed by
John Hollingsworth	....	musical supervisor
Monty Norman	....	songs composed by

Other crew
Tilly Day	....	continuity
Julie Mendez	....	dance director

Production Companies

• Hammer Film Productions

Distributors

• Columbia Pictures Corporation (1960) (UK) (theatrical)
• American International Pictures (AIP) (1961) (USA) (theatrical)
• Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (1972) (USA) (TV) (network premiere)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (1995) (USA) (VHS)
• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2008) (USA) (DVD) (Included in "The Icons of Horror Collection: Hammer Films")

Also Known As:

"House of Fright" - USA (informal alternative title)
"Jekyll's Inferno" - USA (reissue title)

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Certification:

Finland:(Banned) (1960) | Sweden:15 | UK:X

Filming Locations:

Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire, England, UK

Company:

Hammer Film Productions

Trivia:

Christopher Lee's role was written especially for him, and remains one of his personal favorites.

Quotes:

Clubman:Damn bad luck you have been having, I hear, Allen, old man.
Paul Allen:Damn bad luck.
Clubman:Oh, well. Luck's a bitch, old boy
[laughs]
Clubman:.
Paul Allen:I shouldn't think so... Always have the best possible luck with bitches. Almost always, anyway.
Clubman:[laughs heartily] Well I'm swill.
[drinks and walks way]

Movie Connections:

Featured in 100 Years of Horror: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1996) (V)

Christopher Lee smiling tenderly?!?

Very nice and quite original adaptation of this often (ab)used material. This is probably the only version where Hyde is actually more handsome, social and sexy - even in a sort of school-boyish way to begin with - than Jekyll, who is a total wet blanket. There is indeed one of the sexiest performances by Christopher Lee in the film. I'm very happy he isn't in the lead role - I suggest he would have been directed to be his usual grim and menacing self again. Instead of that we get a smiling, easy-going Lee, dripping with wicked charm and sexuality. There aren't many available films to see him still under 40, so if you are a fan of his, I suggest you check this one out. Sure, it tends to be a bit melodramatic, but fortunately everyone around the poor, misunderstood Jekyll is so delightfully evil - his double-crossing wife, and double double-crossing friend - that the dramatic outbursts are nicely suppressed. Also, you get a very intimate close up at the holiest of holies of a scantily dressed snake charmer, and we get the "b"-word loud and clear - rather nice for 1960. Nice sets, nice Victorian frolics, very good looking cast, and generally a more fun version of the book than we usually get. I only have a strange looking pan and scan bootleg version of this film, which obviously was shot in widescreen. Typical vibrant colours of the period, good score and expert direction plus mostly proper British accent from everyone in the cast. I'm very glad I stumbled upon this film, and should I ever see a legitimate widescreen version released, I'd snatch it without a second thought. I'm rich, you see.