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Dr Marlowe is experimenting with theories of good and evil
in relation to the human psyche. He develops a drug which
when administered nullifies the inhibitions of a good, law-abiding
nature. It's only a matter of time before he tries it on himself,
but each additional injection intensifies the evil and twists
the features into an ugly rictus. Marlowe uses a pseudonym
(Mr Blake) for his dark alter ego who begins to kill indiscriminately.
However, Marlowe's gentleman's club friend, Frederick Utterson,
suspects that Blake is somehow blackmailing him. Little does
Utterson realise that his best friend could also be his deadliest
enemy...
Robert
Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
gets the Amicus treatment by Hammer stalwarts Christopher
Lee and Peter Cushing. Lee's performance is probably the most
animated and adaptable since Rasputin
the Mad Monk. Here it's quite amusing to see
his character's mischievous smile after his first dose of
the drug, looking childlike around his own laboratory to see
what he can get up to. This is in complete contrast to his
heart-rending sorrow at having to kill his cat, after a violent
spell in reaction to the drug.
Like many of the Hammer and Amicus Productions everything
takes place with the most gentlemanly behaviour. It's the
Sherlock Holmes school of investigation. Somebody's been brutally
murdered? Oh, well, never mind; let's all retire to the lounge
and take brandy! Still, it harks back to an era when people
probably were more civilised - less advanced, but more civilised.
An
enjoyable tale from 1971 with no padding.
Ty
Power
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