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THE TWO FACES OF Dr JEKYLL (1960).>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Not many people seem to know about this Hammer entry, but it's pretty damn good and I feel it's held up better than many of their offerings. While it's got the bare bones plot of Jekyll trying to find the duality of man, it has many differences. Jekyll is podgy and tired looking, while Hyde is handsome and so jittery that He can't sit still (Good performances by Paul Massie) and maybe it's because He holds a grudge from treatment from former colleagues, his best friend is a drunken gambler constantly hitting him up for $$ to get out of messes He created and said friend is boffing Mrs Jekyll! While Hammer had unpleasant characters in their films, there seems to be an overabundance in this...so many unsavory types here! Also, so much sexual content; they were really pushing the envelope here! Hyde's exotic mistress (where You see some actual nudity and the dance with the snake!), a conga line of dancers constantly revealing their undies and just an extremely misogynistic treatment towards ALL the women here, including a precursor to FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED where Hyde
gets even, as it were, for Jekyll's unfaithful wife.
Christopher Lee is very good here as the friend (although why You would want a guy like this as Your friend escapes Me) and an early appearance by Oliver Reed. ***1/2
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