The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
by Charles Jarrott
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Actor: Denholm Elliott, Jack Palance, Leo Genn, Rex Sevenoaks, Torin ThatcherDirector: Charles Jarrott
Brand: MPI
Producer: Allan Wallace
Producer: Dan Curtis
Producer: Michael Santangelo
Producer: Roy Moe
Producer: Victor Ferry
Writer: Ian McLellan Hunter
Writer: Robert Louis Stevenson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-08-27
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Mpi Home Video
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- This gem of a production was nominated for six Emmy Awards and is acclaimed as the finest of all the interpretations. Called ornately atmospheric horror, by The Hollywood Reporter, it is a powerful adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson s unforgettable tale, featuring Jack Palance as the mild Dr. Jekyll and the brutally evil Mr. Hyde. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Rating:&nbs
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Movie Review: The Ugly, the Ugly and the Ugly..
Summary: 5 Stars
Dan Curtis' TV production of Stevensons story 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' is watchable for quite a few reasons but it's memorable and essential for one: Jack Palance's performance as Mr Hyde..
I've been watching all kinds of horror and fantasy for many years now; I started as a schoolboy and I've enjoyed/endured everything from the early Universals through AIP, Hammer and Amicus; the Italian 'nasties'; the Japanese all-ins; all the way to the present day and the confrontational-at-best 'Murder Set Pieces' and the 'Saw' and 'Hostel' series.
But nothing I've seen in all those years could've possibly prepared me for Jack Palance as Mr Hyde.
It gives the word 'ugly' new meaning and purpose after years of underachievement; fresh nightmares tumble and cascade in forms not experienced since pubescence.
Big, sneering, snarling faces loom down...
But it's not just the make-up - Palance's whole form and demeanour are taken over by this lithe, fidgety, twitching, homicidal rascal.
A little like the Joker in as much as his face is set in some kind of idiot-grimace, completely in keeping with his lurking, obsessive cruelty.
Like a big lizard jumping all over the place; eyes glazed like a shark; cape flapping like the wings of a monstrous falcon - Palance's Hyde is untouchable.
His Jekyll's good - dedicated and retiring; as is the supporting cast: Denholm Elliot, Billie Whitelaw (billed as 'introducing' even though she was in Hammer's 'Hell is a City' way back in 1960 for me to know), Oscar Homolka and Torin Thatcher.
Sets are effective; it's filmed in that strangely-lit late 60's/early 70's studio style that frazzles your eyes if you sit too close (and Hyde's proud jaw-jut will give you a Grade 2 right round !); music's satisfactory; it's well-paced - most of what you could ever want from a TV version of one of the all-time literary horror classics - but Palance is the bite, the spice, the storm...the 'ugly'.
It should be re-titled: the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (the Ugly, the Ugly and the Ugly!), a warning should be posted on the dvd box: 'Program contains images of a man in an almost continual state of ugliness which may be disturbing..'
All I needed was to hear Palance say "Prove it." to one of Hyde's many accusers and my head would've fallen off.
Jack Palance as Jekyll/Hyde: it's not a joke (or if it is, it's a brilliant one!), it's deadly serious.
A straight-faced, earnest adaptation of a great; but you should heed the above warning - completely phony and hysterical or not.
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