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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.