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Two Faces of Dr Jekyll [DVD] [2010]

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Christopher Lee (Actor), Paul Massie (Actor), Terence Fisher (Director) Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Christopher Lee, Paul Massie
  • Directors: Terence Fisher
  • Format: Subtitled, PAL
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: Arabic, Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Castilian, Swedish, Turkish
  • Dubbed: German, French, Castilian, Italian
  • Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 4 Oct. 2010
  • Run Time: 88 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B003AWNASO
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 109,250 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Absorbed in research directed towards isolation of the two natures of a man, Dr. Jekyll degenerates into Mr. Hyde, a vengeful maniac. While Hyde wants revenge against a gambler whom his wife is in love with, Dr. Jekyll, revolted by his second nature, takes steps to do away with his evil self. Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's novel.

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Terence Fisher's take on the oft-filmed Robert Louis Stevenson tale offers a clever switch in a handsome, suave, charming Hyde, like Christopher Lee's Dracula, as a seductive figure of evil. Paul Massie plays Dr. Jekyll as a distracted intellectual under a (rather phoney) beard whose personality-changing drug unleashes his repressed desires and reveals a different side not just of himself, but of his hypocritical best friend. Paul (Christopher Lee) is a smiling viper who leeches off of Jekyll while carrying on an affair with his wife, and soon becomes the smooth-faced Hyde's partner in debauchery through the nightclub underworld of Victorian England. Hyde's violent streak emerges when he targets those who have wronged his weak alter-ego (including a truly brutal attack upon his wife) and in his passionate affair with the exotic snake charmer he soon makes his sexual slave. Massie is neither the intense, menacing Hyde nor the tortured Jekyll the part demands; the sides of his personality are better expressed through co-stars Lee as Hyde's gleefully hedonistic buddy and David Kossoff as Jekyll's conservative and caring friend. Fisher revels in the debauchery of his characters (the Jekyll story often feels like an afterthought), creating an atmosphere of decadence by suggestion and flourish, but his Hyde is a cruel, cold-blooded character, a true Hammer Studios monster behind a friendly face. --Sean Axmaker

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4.0 out of 5 starsThe nutty and dandy professor
By Spike Owen TOP 500 REVIEWER on 2 Mar. 2011
Format: DVD
Dr. Henry Jekyll (Paul Massie) has no life anymore, chained to his work and stuck in a loveless marriage to Kitty (Dawn Addams), he busy's himself working on a character altering potion. Firstly testing it on primates, Jekyll ignores the warnings from his friend Dr. Ernst Littauer (David Kossoff) and experiments on himself. The result brings out Jekyll's alter ego, Mr. Edward Hyde, a debonair gentlemen who holds within a sadistic dangerous streak. Hyde spells danger for anyone who gets too close to him, particularly Kitty, Jekyll's morally bankrupt friend Paul Allen (Christopher Lee) and more worryingly, Jekyll himself.

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll is by Hammer Film Productions. It's directed by Terence Fisher and is adapted by Wolf Mankowitz from the famous story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Tho very much a middle tier offering from the house of Hammer, this version of the often told tale puts a different slant on things to make it unique and always interesting. Jekyll here is a bland and reclusive person, the people closest to him cheat on him and he is powerless to stop it. Contrast with Hyde, handsome and charming and able to take what he wants either by cunning or brute force. This was a deliberate shift from the normal by Fisher and Mankowitz, they didn't want Hyde as some furry half man beast frothing at the mouth, they sided with evil lurking behind a charming facade. It's also notable for its ending too. Where they had the courage of their convictions to stay with a differing formula.

The problems come if one is searching for a horror film in the Hammer tradition. For although Hammer traits such as a smouldering sexiness hang over proceedings, the film is in truth lacking in terror. Something which is sure to annoy the horror purists.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsHAMMER DO MR HYDE YEARS BEFORE THEY HAD HIS SISTER TURN UP
By B FAN on 16 Sept. 2014
Format: DVD
This HAMMER movie was a flop when it first came out i think a lot of it was to do with people wanting a monster style MR HYDE instead of an ordinary man.Watching the movie now it shows HAMMER put some money in this movie with lavish sets etc and was shot in scope which was rare for HAMMER at that time it also did not help the movie at the time with a change of title to HOUSE OF FRIGHT for its U.S release dont ask me how they came up with this.The good things about the movie are CHRISTOPHER LEE, DAWN ADDAMS,and PAUL MASSIE give there parts they play a real touch of class.Now about the disc the picture looks fantastic as is the sound on the extra front we get the trailer for the movie which also looks very good and a booklet with photos and info on the movie.Once again COLUMBIA have done this movie proud and once again as with the GORGON if this comes out on blu-ray it will have to be one hell of a disc to better this.So if you enjoy this movie get this disc you wont see it better than this
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3.0 out of 5 starsHammer tackle Jekyll and Hyde with mixed results...
By Matthew Mercy on 9 Oct. 2011
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Of all the classic horror movie staples, Hammer had perhaps their least success with Jekyll and Hyde, and Terence Fisher's 1960 effort The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll is a case in point. An original but nonetheless misconcieved departure from the premise of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novella, this film isn't all that familiar to many Hammer fans, as since its initial release (on which it flopped quite badly, particularly in the US) it has very rarely received TV screenings, and hasn't previously been widely distributed on VHS or DVD. It features Canadian actor Paul Massie as a bearded, socially paralysed Henry Jekyll whose experiments with his dual nature unleash his alter-ego in the form of a handsome, smooth-talking, sociopathic Edward Hyde; there's actually as much of Stevenson's plot here as there was of Mary Shelley's and Bram Stoker's in Hammer's first Frankenstein and Dracula movies (1957, 1958), which also attempted to pare down the scope and scale of their sprawling source material via very economical screenplays. However, here Dr. Jekyll himself is the one and only character who survives the translation to film, which, like all movie versions of this story, forsakes the mystery set-up of the original book in favour of putting the Jekyll / Hyde character(s) centre stage from the start.
Massie is a serviceable lead, but it seems odd that the title role wasn't given to Christopher Lee, who had recently played the Frankenstein Creature, Count Dracula, and the Mummy for Fisher, and seemed ideally positioned to continue his run of great movie monsters.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsAn underrated and often-overlooked Hammer classic
By Jeremy W. Newbould on 15 April 2010
Format: DVD
In Hammer's 1960 take on the famous story by Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll (Paul Massie) develops a personality-changing drug and transforms himself from a crusty, bearded old sod into a young, handsome, but completely immoral, man-about-town using the alias of Mr. Hyde. When Jekyll/Hyde discovers that his beautiful but unfaithful wife, Kitty (Dawn Addams), is having an affair with his friend, Paul Allen (Christopher Lee), a compulsive gambler, he plots a wicked revenge....

Directed by the great Terence Fisher, this is one of Hammer's most beautiful-looking films that is well-acted by a fine cast. Paul Massie is good in his dual roles, and solid support is provided by Dawn Addams (who looks absolutely gorgeous) and the ever-reliable Christopher Lee and look out for a young Oliver Reed in a small role. There is also a pretty good music score by Monty Norman, who was credited with composing the James Bond theme.

"The Two Faces Of Dr. Jekyll" (a.k.a. "House of Fright" and "Jekyll's Inferno") may not be one of Hammer's best-known films but I consider it to be one of their greatest and most enjoyable films from the early-1960s. Hammer went on to film another version of the Jekyll & Hyde story in 1971 with "Dr. Jekyll And Sister Hyde", directed by Roy Ward Baker, which had Dr. Jekyll (Ralph Bates) changing into a beautiful but murderous young woman (played by Martine Beswick).
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