Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll, The

"Man as he is comprises two beings: one of whom I call man as he could be. In his perfection this inner man is beyond good and evil."

―Henry Jekyll

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
Credits
Title:	The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
Directed by:	Terence Fisher
Written by:	Wolf Mankowitz
Produced by:	Michael Carreras Anthony Nelson Keys
Music by:	David Heneker Monty Norman John Hollingsworth
Cinematography:	Jack Asher
Edited by:	Eric Boyd-Perkins James Needs
Production
Distributors:	Hammer Film Productions American International Pictures
Released:	October 24th, 1960 (UK) May 3rd, 1961 (US)
Rating:	X
Running time:	88 min.
Country:	UK
Language:	English
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The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll is a British horror film directed by Terence Fisher and produced by Hammer Film Productions. It is based on the 1886 novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It premiered in the UK on October 24th, 1960. The US distribution was through American International Pictures (AIP), which released the film in the North American market on May 3rd, 1961. The film stars Paul Massie in the dual role of social recluse Doctor Henry Jekyll and his alter ego, Mister Edward Hyde. Henry's wife, Kitty Jekyll is played by Dawn Addams while rising "Hammer Horror" legend Christopher Lee plays the role of Paul Allen.

Cast

Actor	Role
Paul Massie	Henry Jekyll/Edward Hyde
Dawn Addams	Kitty Jekyll
Christopher Lee	Paul Allen
David Kossoff	Doctor Ernst Litauer
Norma Marla	Maria
Francis De Wolff	Police inspector
Joy Webster	Jenny
Maria Andipa	Gypsy girl
Frank Atkinson	Groom
Archie Baker	Singer
Glenn Beck	Young blood
John Bonney	Renfrew
Ralph Broadbent	Singer
Alan Browning	Young blood
Rodney Burke	Young blood
Percy Cartwright	Coroner
Dennis Cleary	Waiter
Bandana Das Gupta	Sphinx girl
Roy Denton	Business man
Pauline Dukes	Sphinx girl
Clifford Earl	Young blood
Janina Faye	Jane, deafmute child
Felix Felton	First gambler
Kenneth Firth	Business man
Helen Goss	Nanny
Walter Gotell	Heverton, second gamber
Hazel Graeme	Sphinx girl
Lucy Griffiths	Tavern woman
Carole Haynes	Sphinx girl
Prudence Hyman	Tavern woman
Doreen Ismail	Sphinx girl
Anthony Jacobs	Third gambler
Josephine Jay	Sphinx girl
William Kendall	Clubman
Robert Kirkwood	Second brass
Jean Long	Sphinx girl
Arthur Lovegrove	Cabby
George McGrath	Business man
Alex Miller	Singer
Magda Miller	Sphinx girl
John Moore	Officer
Anthony Pendrell	Cabinet minister
Oliver Reed	Bouncer
Laurence Richardson	Singer
Marilyn Ridge	Sphinx girl
Doug Robinson	Boxer
Joe Robinson	Corinthian
Gundel Sargent	Sphinx girl
Patricia Sayers	Sphinx girl
Shirli Scott-James	Sphinx girl
Moyna Sharwin	Sphinx girl
Denis Shaw	Tavern customer
Pauline Shepherd	Mary, the young prostitute
Fred Stone	Cabinet Minister
Donald Tandy	Roger
John Trevor-Davis	Officer
Joan Tyrrell	The Major Domo
Mackenzie Ward	Business man
Joyce Wren	Nurse

Notes & Trivia

• The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll is alternatively known as Jekyll's Inferno and House of Fright.
• The tagline for this film is "Sometimes, terror has a handsome face."
• Principal filming on The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll began on November 23rd, 1959 and concluded on January 22nd, 1960. It was shot at Bray Studios in Berkshire, England.
• The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll is the first of two films produced by Hammer Film Productions that adapt Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The second is Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, directed by Roy Ward Baker and released in 1971. Although both films are adaptations of Stevenson's novel, they are otherwise unrelated to one another.
• Is included on the Icons of Horror Collection: Hammer Films DVD collection along with Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, Scream of Fear and The Gorgon. The collection was released by Sony Pictures on October 14th, 2008.
• First aired on network television on CBS in 1972.
• Director Terence Fisher previously directed The Brides of Dracula. His next film is Curse of the Werewolf in 1961.
• Final horror film work for cinematographer Jack Asher. Earlier in 1960, he shot The Brides of Dracula.
• Writer Wolf Mankowitz was nominated for a BAFTA award for his first film, Expresso Bongo, which was directed by horror film director Val Guest. Mankowitz also collaborated with composers David Heneker and Monty Norman who also worked on The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll. Mankowitz won the BAFTA in 1962 for Best British Screenplay, which he shared with Val Guest for The Day the Earth Caught Fire.
• The casting of Christopher Lee as Paul Allen is in stark contrast to most of Lee's other roles where he usually plays evil villains. Lee has stated that the role of Paul Allen is one of his favorite film parts, likely because it gave him the opportunity to try something different.
• Christopher Lee and Francis De Wolff also appeared together in Moulin Rouge in 1951.
• Francis De Wolff, Joy Webster and Oliver Reed also appear in Terence Fisher's 1961 film The Curse of the Werewolf.
• Composer Monty Norman is best known for creating the infamous James Bond theme song introduced in Dr. No and featured in every James Bond movie (in some variation) ever since.

See also

Jekyll and Hyde Jekyll and Hyde films Jekyll and Hyde characters

Jekyll and Hyde images Jekyll and Hyde cast & crew Jekyll and Hyde miscellaneous

External Links

• The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll at AMG
• The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll at TCM
• The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll at IMDB
• The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll at Trakt.TV
• The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll at Wikipedia
• The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll at Themoviedb.org

References

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Hammer Horror This article relates to the films produced under the "Hammer Horror" banner of Hammer Film Productions. This template will categorize articles that include it into the Hammer Film Productions category. Dracula Dracula (1958) • Brides of Dracula (1960) • Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) • Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968) • Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) • Scars of Dracula (1970) • Dracula 1972 A.D. (1972) • The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973) • Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974) Frankenstein Curse of Frankenstein (1957) • Revenge of Frankenstein (1958) • Evil of Frankenstein (1964) • Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) • Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) • Horror of Frankenstein (1970) • Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974) The Mummy The Mummy (1959) • Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964) • Mummy's Shroud, The (1967) • Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971) Others X the Unknown (1956) • The Abominable Snowman (1957) • The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960) • Curse of the Werewolf (1961) • Scream of Fear (1961) • Phantom of the Opera (1962) • Kiss of the Vampire (1963) • Paranoiac (1963) • Nightmare (1964) • The Old Dark House (1963) • The Gorgon (1964) • Plague of the Zombies (1966) • The Reptile (1966) • The Devil Rides Out (1968) • The Vampire Lovers (1970) • Lust for a Vampire (1971) • Hands of the Ripper (1971) • Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971) • Countess Dracula (1971) • Twins of Evil (1972) • Demons of the Mind (1972) • Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974) • To the Devil a Daughter (1976)

Film Series This article relates to the films within the Doctor Jekyll & Mister Hyde franchise. This template will categorize articles that include it into the Jekyll and Hyde films category.