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== Characters/Groups ==
== Characters/Groups ==


[[Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde]] - [[Anthony Perkins]]
[[Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde]] - [[Anthony Perkins]]


[[Elisabeth Jekyll]] - [[Glynis Barber]]
[[Elisabeth Jekyll]] - [[Glynis Barber]]

Revision as of 20:50, 18 November 2020

Dr. Jekyll attains a killer alter ego after smoking a drug concoction of his own design.


Genre

Thriller

Spoiler

Characters/Groups

Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde - Anthony Perkins

Elisabeth Jekyll - Glynis Barber

Susannah - Sarah Maur-Thorp

Underwood - David Lodge

Johnny - Ben Cole

Newcomen - Ray Jewers

Flora - Jill Melford

Maria - Lisa Davis

Egglestone - Noel Coleman

Ann Underwood - Briony McRoberts

Lanyon - Mark Elliot

Coroner - Harry Landis

Mrs Egglestone - Jill Pearson

Mr Bollingham - Basil Hoskins

Margot - Ruth Burnett

Maggie - Carolyn Cortez

Cockney Prostitute - Cathy Murphy

Liza - Claudia Udy

Jekyll's Father - Gerard Kikoine

Charlie

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Detailed Synopsis

A young Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde|Dr. Jekyll is hiding in the barn loft watching a women undresses. The women sees him and continues to strip and then has sex with Jekyll's Father. As Jekyll is watching he falls out of the loft and his foot is caught by a stirrup hanging from the loft, causing him to hang upside down. Jekyll's Father then spanks him as the woman laughs.

Many years later, Jekyll wakes up from a nightmare involving his youth. Elisabeth Jekyll asks him if he is alright and he tells her to go back to sleep before walking to his study. The next morning he walks to his job at the hospital, on the way buying a newspaper and saying hello to Mr. Stanton. He mixes up an anesthetic drug of his own design and then applies it to a patient as Lanyon watches. After the surgery, Jekyll tells Lanyon that he has been using the drug itself and it has caused him to have dreams of another level. A nurse walks up to Jekyll and tells him a female patient is waiting. Jekyll and Lanyon inspect the patient, Susannah, and see she is suffering from lashes given to her by her brothers. Jekyll leaves after noticing that Susannah has a close resemblance to the woman he watched from his youth. Jekyll returns to his lab at his home and gives Charlie (Monkey)|Charlie a dose of a drug he is working on. As Jekyll is working on notes, Charlie knocks over a bottle of ether, causing it to mix with cocaine. Jekyll goes to put out the reaction and inhales a large cloud of the new drug. Jekyll transforms into Jack Hyde and leaves his house. He sees a prostitute and follows her down the street. Cockney Prostitute propositions Hyde, but he walks on by. Johnny (Edge of Sanity)|Johnny invites Hyde to visit Madame Flora (Edge of Sanity)|Flora's. Hyde goes inside and is introduced to Flora and Johnny starts to show him around the bordello. He shows Hyde a religious themed sadomasochistic show going on and Hyde runs out of the bordello. He sees a man kissing on Susannah and grabs the man and throws him down the stairs, but when he turns around, Susannah is gone. Maggie (Edge of Sanity)|Maggie propositions Hyde and they go up to her place. After smoking more of his concoction, Hyde grabs her and takes a knife and rips open her panties exposing her butt. Maggie turns around and tries to get Hyde to have sex with her and then Hyde starts slapping her and tells her to force him to pray. He starts to pray and then slashes Maggie's throat, killing her. The next morning Elisabeth wakes Jekyll up and Maria (Edge of Sanity)|Maria tells Jekyll that Underwood is waiting for him in his office. Jekyll asks Underwood a hypothetical question and tells Underwood he will need his help soon. Coroner (Edge of Sanity)|Coroner shows Newcomen, Maggie's body. The Coroner then describes the wounds on the body and Newcomen suspects it is someone who knows anatomy. Jekyll tells Egglestone about his drug discovery and Egglestone insists he announce its creation at the Vienna conference. Egglestone tells Jekyll that if Egglestone is sent to Calcutta, then Jekyll may get his job on the board of governors at the hospital. Egglestone then leaves to speak with Mr Bollingham and tells him about Jekyll's work, but Jekyll warns there might be side effects to the drug. Elisabeth mentions their upcoming trip to Vienna to meet with Vivian and Jekyll leaves to go back to his lab. He smokes more of his new drug and goes to a bar where he meets ?. They leave and go to Georgie's hotel.