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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0143812749290
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 11, 2005
Running Time: 80 minutes
Sales Rank: 49226
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1973-04
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In this chilling twist on the classic Jekyll and Hyde story, psychologist Charles Marlowe (The Lord of the Rings' Christopher Lee) invents a drug which releases his patients' inhibitions - but tests on himself result in the cruel, immoral Edward Blake, who wreaks crime and murder upon the city. Marlowe#s lawyer, Utterson (Star Wars' Peter Cushing), believes Blake is blackmailing the good doctor but soon uncovers the horrifying truth.
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Rating:  - I, Monster
This is a classic Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde. It is very different from the movies that I am used to see Lee and Cushing in.
Rating: - The Strange Case of Dr. Marlowe and Mr. Blake, I presume
This 1971 horror film is an interesting one because "I, Monster" is clearly Robert Lewis Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," but with the names changed. I understand why all of the names were changed when F.W. Murnau made "Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens," namely because he was doing "Dracula" without paying the Stoker estate. But this film says is based on "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," and then changes the names of the protagonist and his alter-ego to Dr. Charles Marlowe and Edward Blake, both played by Christopher Lee. On top of that, as far as adaptation goes of the Stevenson classic, the screenplay by Milton Subotsky is more faithful to the novella than other films that actually go out under the Stevenson title. You can tell that as soon as Stevenson's supporting characters, the lawyer Frederick Utterson (Peter Cushing), Dr. Anthony Lanyon (Richard Hurndall), and Poole the Butler (George Merritt) actually show up for this version.
At the turn of the previous century, Dr. Marlowe has been experimenting with a drug that lowers the social inhibitions of his patients. The doctor discovers that a prim and proper Victorian woman starts taking off her clothes. An angry businessman becomes a weeping child. When Marlowe tests the drug on his cat, it turns the feline into a snarling beast that he has to kill. Despite this clear warning and having some concern that he is turning people into what they are not, he takes the drug himself, and of course it turns ... Read More
Rating:  - i monster
THIS IS A GREAT VERSION OF DR JEYKLL AND MR HYDE ITS WORTH VIEWING FOR 18+ I STRONGLY WOULDNT RECOMMEND IT UNDER 18+
Rating: - "What would I be doing with an ugly thing like you?"
I was pleased to see someone bothered to dig up I, Madman (1973) - Amazon gives 1973 as the theatrical release date, but the IMDb lists 1971, so perhaps one is the American release date, and the other a UK release date -a musty, under appreciated Amicus (The Studio That Dripped Blood) film for a DVD release, as it gives me hope that perhaps there's enough interest to see the release of some of what Amicus was really known for, that being their horror anthologies. I would surely like to see such films as Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965), Tales from the Crypt (1972), and Tales That Witness Madness (1973) made available on DVD. Based on the story The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and directed by Stephen Weeks (Gawain and the Green Knight), the film brings together the legendary stars Christopher Lee (Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith) and Peter Cushing (The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires) in one of their many, on screen collaborations. Also appearing is Mike Raven (Lust for a Vampire), Richard Hurndall (Doctor Who: The Five Doctors), George Merritt (Quatermass 2), and former rock singer-turned actor Michael Des Barres (To Sir, with Love).
Lee is Dr. Charles Marlowe, a psychologist in the process of developing some kind of serum that would effectively break down unconscious barriers and free ones inhibitions. What's the therapeutic value of such a formula? Well, he believes that many illnesses of the mind are due to repressed desires, and ... Read More
Rating:  - Long overdue DVD, but for collectors ONLY!
At long last, a DVD release of this 1970 Amicus release. Perhaps too late, considering the brisk sales of the bootleg over the internet, etc. However, I would have to recommend this release only for the most avid collectors/completists of Amicus/Hammer/Christopher Lee/Peter Cushing/British horror. This both on the merits of the DVD, and of the film itself. The film is essentially a fairly faithful adaptation of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, with the names inexplicably changed to Dr. Marlowe and Mr. Blake. The story of its filming has been told well elsewhere and often (the abortive 3D process etc.), and the loss of time and money unfortunately show in the film. There is a definite air of poverty about the production. This sometimes works in its favor (in the seedy lower London scenes, for example), but some of the material could have probably been reworked with more time/money. There are some deft touches, with some psychological pointedness, such as the exchange between Marlowe (Christopher Lee) and his friend Utterson (Peter Cushing) regarding the mysterious Mr. Blake.
"How well did you know my father?" Marlowe says. "He carried a gold-headed walking stick. He used it for things other than walking."
"Your friend Blake carries such a walking stick," Utterson points out.
And there is a brilliant scene involving an encounter with a child in Hyde Park (!) where Marlowe realises that his life of freedom and excess is just as much a prison for the soul as was stuffy convention.
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