In the Nineteenth Century, in London, the psychologist Charles Marlowe researches a new drug capable to release inhibitions and uses his patients as guinea pigs. He discusses the principles of Freud with his friend Dr. Lanyon and decides to experiment his drug in himself. He becomes the ugly and evil Edward Blake.
Production Details
An Amicus Production
Produced at Shepperton Studios
75 Mins
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Footnotes
Christopher Lee (Dr. Charles Marlowe / Edward Blake) previously played Paul Allen in Hammer’s The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960), another adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”.