Il dottor Henry Jekyll sperimenta mezzi scientifici per rivelare il lato oscuro nascosto dell'uomo e libera un assassino da dentro di sé.Il dottor Henry Jekyll sperimenta mezzi scientifici per rivelare il lato oscuro nascosto dell'uomo e libera un assassino da dentro di sé.Il dottor Henry Jekyll sperimenta mezzi scientifici per rivelare il lato oscuro nascosto dell'uomo e libera un assassino da dentro di sé.
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- QuizChristopher Lee's role as Paul Allen in the film was written especially for him and was one of his personal favorites.
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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.
- Curiosità sui creditiRobert 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.
- Versioni alternativeExtensive 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.
- ConnessioniFeatured in Movie Macabre: The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll (1986)
I was really blown away by this film. The Jekyll/Hyde story has been told again and again and the main character has been portrayed by countless actors. Yet, this may be the great version out there -- definitely the best one I've seen yet. The Canadian actor playing both roles was a new face for me, but is pretty amazing and I couldn't see the two personas as the same actor no matter how hard I tried. It was quite impressive.
Christopher Lee, ever-present in the Hammer films (did he ever have a day off?), plays friend Paul Allen. Wow. I've praised Lee in "Scream of Fear", but he should be praised no less in this, where he's a convincingly sleazy gambler and womanizer. Not the way I picture Lee to be, but it seems so natural here. The more I see this man in action, the more I see what the generation before me saw. I had always been a Peter Cushing fan, but maybe it's time for me to switch sides? I enjoyed the philosophical questions raised by this film. There's the portrayal of Hyde as younger, more handsome and more charming... not the monster he's usually shown to be. I think this fit well... he still had the spontaneous violence, but not unlike the devil himself, knew his way to get to people with savoir faire. Early on, Jekyll also talks of the man "beyond good and evil", the "higher man", evoking the words of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, though certainly not in the way Nietzsche would have endorsed. Both Nietzsche's and Jekyll's higher man use their wills to gain what they most desire, but Hyde is something of an unhinged creature, not the refined and academic man Nietzsche preferred.
Nietzsche also spoke of "beyond good and evil" as a transcendence of morality, moving beyond our traditional concepts and accepting that there is good and bad, but no overarching divine good or evil. In this regard, Hyde may be comparable. He certainly has no care for his "evil" actions... though one suspects that not even Nietzsche would support these "bad" actions destroying those around him.
You must pick up this film (preferably in the four-disc set of Hammer films also containing "The Gordon" and "Scream of Fear"). You don't need to be as analytical or philosophical as I am when digesting it, but you'll love the film for its great characters and hedonistic wickedness... drunken, licentious men in 1870s London? Let the depravity begin.
- gavin6942
- 7 ott 2008
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- Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire, Inghilterra, Regno Unito(Main Filming Studio)
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- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 28 minuti
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