Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde

Hammers 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 Rippers reign of terror, co...

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), whos working on a curious elixir of life that needs female hormones taken from fresh cadavers. Martine Beswick plays Jekylls 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 historica...