Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde 1971 123movies

Watch: Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde 1971 123movies, Full Movie Online – In Victorian London, Dr. Henry Jekyll attempts to create an elixir of life using female hormones stolen from fresh corpses. He reasons that these hormones will wipe out all common diseases and extend his life since women live much longer than men. However, once Dr. Jekyll drinks the serum himself, he transforms into a gorgeous but evil woman. He soon needs female hormones for his serum to maintain, so a number of London women meet bloody deaths..
Plot: In foggy London Dr Jekyll experiments on newly deceased women determined to discover an elixir for immortal life. Success enables his spectacular transformation into the beautiful but psychotic Sister Hyde who stalks the dark alleys of Whitechapel for young, innocent, female victims, ensuring continuation of the bloodstained research. With each transformation Sister Hyde becomes the more dominant personality, determined to eventually suppress the frail, ineffectual Dr Jekyll forever.
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_**What if Dr. Jekyll morphed into an alluring woman rather than a monster?**_

In the late 1880s, murders of prostitutes start piling up in the Whitechapel district of east London where a professor (Gerald Sim) starts to suspect a colleague (Ralph Bates), who’s working on a curious elixir of life that needs female hormones taken from fresh cadavers. Martine Beswick plays Jekyll’s “sister.”

“Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde” (1971) was the third Hammer film inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous story from 1886. The other two were “The Ugly Duckling” (1959), a horror comedy, and “The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll” (1960). “Two Faces” is the best one, but “Sister Hyde” is interesting and has some highlights.

For instance, it mixes in two historical serial murder accounts: The Jack the Ripper slayings, which occurred from 1888-1891, and the Burke and Hare murders, which took place in 1828 Edinburgh. Since Stevenson based his 1881 yarn “The Body snatcher” on the Burke and Hare case, scriptwriter Brian Clemens felt it would be a fitting addition. In any case, I like the way Jekyll justifies his diabolical doings for the (supposed) greater good of humanity.

The key deviation of the story is helped by the fact that Bates and Beswick have a similar look.

As with most Hammer flicks there are a few notable beauties, whether costarring or in the periphery. Besides Martine, there’s Susan Brodrick as the winsome Susan, plus a couple others.

The film runs 1 hour, 33 minutes, and was shot in Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, just northwest of London.

GRADE: B-

Hammer’s Gender Bending of the Robert Louis Stevenson Story Is Deliciously Entertaining.

Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde is directed by Roy Ward Baker and written by Brian Clemens. It stars Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick, Gerald Sim, Lewis Fiander, Susan Brodrick and Dorothy Alison. Music is by David Whitaker and cinematography by Norman Warwick.

Dr. Henry Shekel (Bates) is working on an elixir that he hopes will be the answer to longevity of life. The answer he believes is to be found in female hormones taken from cadavers sent his way by Burke and Hare. Unfortunately, when the doctor resorts to trying the potion himself, he is transformed into a ravishing but dangerous woman. With London in the grip of Jack the Ripper’s reign of terror, could it be that Jekyll and Sister Hyde are linked to the Jolly jack killings?

Burke by name, Berk by nature!

It’s an awful title, it really is, I know for a fact people have avoided the film purely because they thought it sounded like some lame British horror parody piece. Which is a shame because it’s a devilishly fun picture that breathes new life into a formula that has never been short of on screen treatments. Not only does Clemens’ intelligent screenplay have the transformed “creature” be a smouldering sex bomb in the shapely form of Martine Beswick, he also reshapes horrible history by having Jack the Ripper and Burke and Hare tied into the plotting. Hell there’s even a nifty aside to Sweeney Todd in there as well.

Murder, horrible grizzly murder!

Baker directs with some style, never letting the picture drift aimlessly, while he along with Norman Warwick and the set designers create a classic Gaslight Gothic look, the perfect backdrop to such devious doings and berserker gender bending. The transformation sequences are deftly handled, the duality of beings and mirrors a narrative strength, while the film isn’t afraid to add humour over the top of the gruesome Technicolor murders. In fact sometimes the in jokes are so subtle it’s not hard to see why many film observers of the time didn’t get the joke when it was released, the crafty wink-winkery to the audience wasted on the unaware.

With Bates and Beswick leading from the front with strong and assured performances, and looking credible as brother and sister into the bargain, the film is never less than enjoyable. It overcomes the gimmick idea to play out a story that stands unique in its freshness. Oh for sure there’s some weaknesses in the production, but really this is a Hammer film that deserves its cult fan base because it repays the good will consistently on repeat viewings. 8/10

One of the best Hammer chillers from the Elstree era.
The Hammer films were initially made at Bray Studios, but in the late ’60s the company moved to Elstree. Many purists believe that the films made by Hammer during the Elstree years are largely inferior to the ones made during the Bray era, and a quick glance at some of their later titles certainly supports this theory. Movies like “The Vengeance Of She”,”Dracula A.D 1972″, “The Satanic Rites Of Dracula”, “The Horror Of Frankenstein” and “To The Devil A Daughter” are decidedly sub-par entries, all churned out while the company was using Elstree Studios. However, like anything else, there are exceptions to every rule. “Dr Jekyll And Sister Hyde” is an exception to the theory that Hammer horror films made at Elstree are generally rather poor – in fact, this one is pretty good.

In Victorian London, dedicated scientist Dr Jekyll (Ralph Bates) is experimenting on insects to produce a potion that will prolong life. Jekyll is obsessed with the fear that his lifetime will be too short for him to achieve everything he wants, so he is determined to find a way of adding years to his life. It looks as if he has made a breakthrough when he manages to get a fly with a life cycle of one hour to survive for three days. However, the fly he uses is a male of the species and it somehow develops female characteristics, including the ability to lay eggs, during the experiment. Jekyll eventually decides to test a potion on himself. Soon afterwards, he transforms temporarily into a beautiful woman who calls herself Mrs Hyde (Martine Beswick) and poses as Jekyll’s sister. In order to carry out further experiments Jekyll needs female hormones, but his supply of corpses dwindles and it becomes harder for him to get new ones. He hires grave-robbers Burke and Hare for a short while, but when they are captured he has to resort to more desperate measures to get his dead female bodies. Jekyll prowls the streets of Whitechapel murdering young prostitutes. He grows sickened by where his work is leading and attempts to quit, but gradually his alter ego Mrs Hyde takes control and continues the killing spree herself. A terrifying internal battle takes shape between Dr Jekyll and Mrs Hyde, as the two personalities existing within him battle for domination…..

“Dr Jekyll And Sister Hyde” is quite a complex and thoughtful twist on the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. The “gender conflict” aspect is very interesting indeed. A creepy atmosphere is generated in the dark alleyways of Whitechapel, as the story cleverly mates the Jack The Ripper legend with the Jekyll and Hyde story. Bates gives a decent performance as the misguided scientist, while Beswick (who looks remarkably similar to her male co-star) is genuinely unpleasant. Gerald Sim provides an amusing supporting character in the shape of a lecherous and over-sexed scientist colleague of Jekyll’s. There is no denying that there are occasional longueurs in the narrative – plus sporadic touches of plotting clumsiness (e.g. Burke and Hare operating in London in the 1880s when they were actually renowned in 1820s Edinburgh?!) – but on the whole “Dr Jekyll And Sister Hyde” is an entertaining and well-made spine-tingler.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 37 min (97 min), 1 hr 34 min (94 min) (USA)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Horror, Sci-Fi
Director Roy Ward Baker
Writer Robert Louis Stevenson, Brian Clemens
Actors Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick, Gerald Sim
Country United Kingdom
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1 (original & negative ratio), 1.85 : 1 (theatrical ratio)
Camera N/A
Laboratory Technicolor (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm