Terrific!


This is the best and most underrated version of the Robert Louis Stevenson tale ever filmed!

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I totally agree buddy, this version had me in a tight grip from start to finish, Jack Palance was damn perfect as Jekyll and Hyde!

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I was just reflecting on this as I viewed Jack's bio here. Can't believe (but am happy) that he's still with us!

I remember the "sword work" in this movie. Pretty shocking for its day. Yikes!

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I am sorry to say this, cassbtt, but unfortunately Jack Palance died in 2006...

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Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget.

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agree totally
!st rate script, great performances all round and Curtis' hand firmly on the tiller. Couldn't ask for more.
Usually watch this back to back with the equally good Curtis/Palance version of Dracula.

Atheism is a religion in the same way that celibacy is a sexual position

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Totally agree.
I saw it when it was new back when I was a kid
and it still holds up.

Palance rocked!

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Pffft, my suspension of disbelief has higher standards than that.

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It's a good movie and great performance by Jack Palance

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i watch this every halloween, it's been featured on a double set dvd (the other movie on is palance's dracula) but now days i watch elvira's thrillervideo release, what a great co star palance has in denholm elliot, people these days may recognise him from "trading places" (1983), the taunting or mocking of dr. jekyll at the beginning is the most memorable line of the movie "he should've brought his keeper", and what a memorable co actress, i don't recall seeing her elsewhere, but as always it's terrible to see how jekyll treats the girls, notice as she screams the camera is on him, looks funny. last year i listened to a bbc radio dramatization of this story contained on two discs, one of the many things i like about "the twilight zone radio dramas" is how they gather one story on one disc, but it was a pleasant listening, i don't know of any fiction told so many times as dr. jekyll and mr. hyde, what has me returning to this particular one is the portrayal by jack palance.



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silent streets,
dusty buildings,
night fall,
not a soul here i know,
stuck in rusty ghost town,
dark shadows sneak out,
people gone places shut down,
longing for good times,
sunny streets old company around.

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