Dr Jeckyll & Sister Hyde – 1971

A Hammer production released through MGM-EMI Film Distributors Limited Copyright MCMLXXl Hammer Film Productions Limited – All rights reserved
MPAA Approved Certificate No. 22915
The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious, and any similarity to the name, character, or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional
RCA Sound Recording
Made at EMI-MGM Elstree Studios, Hertfordshire, England
Technicolor 97 mins
Storyline
In the course of his experiments to find an elixir of life, Dr Jekyll stumbles on a formula which, when he tries it on himself, transforms him into a beautiful woman, who calls herself his sister, Mrs Hyde. As his work continues, Jekyll is more and more unable to control his female alter ego, who, unfortunately, is endowed with a particularly vicious and murderous streak, which will eventually bring about his downfall.
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Crew
Function | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
Click a link for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | ||||||
Ast. Director | Bert Batt | 41 | 25 Apr 1930 | 6 Nov 2011 | 81 | 13 | 13 | ||
Camera Operator | Godfrey Godar | 46 | 30 Nov 1924 | 2 Nov 2007 | 82 | 2 | 2 | ||
Casting Director | James Liggat | 51 | 1 Jan 1920 | 28 Sep 1981 | 61 | 29 | 2 | 31 | |
Construction Manager | Bill Greene | 9 | 9 | ||||||
Continuity | Sally Ball (Jones) | 26 | 1945 | Oct 2009 | 64 | 4 | 4 | ||
Designer | Robert Jones | 6 | 6 | ||||||
Director | Roy Ward Baker | 54 | 19 Dec 1916 | 5 Oct 2010 | 93 | 8 | 8 | ||
Director of Photog. | Norman Warwick BSc | 51 | 14 Jul 1920 | 26 Aug 1994 | 74 | 5 | 5 | ||
Editor | James Needs | 52 | 17 Oct 1919 | 4 Feb 2003 | 83 | 110 | 1 | 111 | |
From the story by | Robert Louis Stevenson | 120 | 13 Nov 1850 | 3 Dec 1894 | 44 | 1 | 1 | ||
Hairdressing | Bernie Ibbetson | 42 | Jun 1929 | 1977 | 47 | 1 | 1 | ||
Make-up | Trevor Crole-Rees | 53 | 29 Aug 1918 | Oct 1982 | 64 | 1 | 1 | ||
Music Composer | David Whitaker | 40 | 6 Jan 1931 | 11 Jan 2012 | 81 | 3 | 3 | ||
Musical Supervisor | Philip Martell | 64 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 104 | 1 | 105 | |
Producer | Brian Clemens | 40 | 30 Jul 1931 | 10 Jan 2015 | 83 | 8 | 8 | ||
Producer | Albert Fennell | 51 | 29 Mar 1920 | 17 Apr 1988 | 68 | 2 | 2 | ||
Production Manager | Don Weeks | 66 | 15 Nov 1904 | Mar 1988 | 83 | 30 | 30 | ||
Production Supervisor | Roy Skeggs | 37 | 1 Apr 1934 | 29 Dec 2018 | 84 | 45 | 1 | 46 | |
Recording Director | A.W. Lumkin | 58 | 1 Feb 1913 | 25 Oct 1985 | 72 | 30 | 30 | ||
Screenplay | Brian Clemens | 40 | 30 Jul 1931 | 10 Jan 2015 | 83 | 8 | 8 | ||
Song "He'll be There" | Brian Clemens | 40 | 30 Jul 1931 | 10 Jan 2015 | 83 | 8 | 8 | ||
Sound | Bill Rowe | 40 | 2 Feb 1931 | 29 Sep 1992 | 61 | 10 | 10 | ||
Sound Editor | Charles Crafford GBFE | 55 | 27 Jul 1916 | 12 Nov 1977 | 61 | 4 | 4 | ||
Wardrobe Mistress | Kathleen Moore | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Wardrobe Supervisor | Rosemary Burrows | 36 | 5 | 41 | |||||
Uncredited | |||||||||
Ast. Editor | Ian MacGregor-Scott | 21 | 11 Dec 1949 | 73 | 3 | 3 | |||
Make-up Artist | John Wilcox BSc | 66 | 7 May 1905 | 31 May 1979 | 74 | 6 | 1 | 7 | |
Runner | Philip Campbell | 19 | 1952 | 71 | 9 | 9 | |||
Special Effects | Michael Collins | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
Stunts | Peter Pocock | 37 | 1934 | 5 May 2007 | 73 | 2 | 2 | ||
Unit Runner | Brian Reynolds | 4 | 4 |
Cast
Character | Actor | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
Click a link for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | ||||||
1st Policeman | Geoffrey Kenion | 29 | 1942 | Jul 2020 | 78 | 1 | 1 | ||
1st Sailor | Derek Steen | 1 | 1 | ||||||
2nd Sailor | John Lyons | 28 | 14 Sep 1943 | 79 | 1 | 1 | |||
Betsy | Virginia Wetherell | 28 | 9 May 1943 | 79 | 2 | 2 | |||
Burke | Ivor Dean | 53 | 21 Dec 1917 | 10 Aug 1974 | 56 | 1 | 1 | ||
Byker | Philip Madoc | 37 | 5 Jul 1934 | 5 Mar 2012 | 77 | 1 | 1 | ||
Dr Jekyll | Ralph Bates | 31 | 12 Feb 1940 | 27 Mar 1991 | 51 | 5 | 5 | ||
Emma | Liz Romanoff | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Hare | Tony Calvin | 40 | 27 Mar 1931 | 14 Aug 1999 | 68 | 1 | 1 | ||
Helen | Pat Brackenbury | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Howard Spencer | Lewis Fiander | 33 | 12 Jan 1938 | 24 May 2016 | 78 | 2 | 2 | ||
Jill | Jeannette Wild | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Julie | Anna Brett | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Knife Grinder | Roy Evans | 41 | 10 Jan 1930 | 93 | 3 | 3 | |||
Margie | Jackie Poole | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Marie | Rosemary Lord | 24 | 16 May 1947 | 75 | 1 | 1 | |||
Mine Host | Will Stampe | 51 | 7 Oct 1920 | 1 Sep 1981 | 60 | 1 | 1 | ||
Mrs Hyde | Martine Beswick | 30 | 26 Sep 1941 | 81 | 3 | 3 | |||
Mrs Spencer | Dorothy Alison | 46 | 4 Apr 1925 | 17 Jan 1992 | 66 | 2 | 2 | ||
Older Policeman | Neil Wilson | 55 | 24 Jun 1916 | 24 Jan 1975 | 58 | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
Petra | Petula Portell | 23 | 1 Jan 1948 | 75 | 1 | 1 | |||
Professor Robertson | Gerald Sim | 46 | 4 Jun 1925 | 11 Dec 2014 | 89 | 3 | 3 | ||
Sergeant Danvers | Paul Whitsun-Jones | 48 | 5 Apr 1923 | 14 Jan 1974 | 50 | 1 | 1 | ||
Street Singer | Julia Wright | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Susan Spencer | Susan Brodrick | 26 | 27 Mar 1945 | 78 | 3 | 3 | |||
Town Crier | Dan Meaden | 36 | 11 Oct 1935 | 28 Nov 2011 | 76 | 2 | 2 | ||
Young Apprentice | Bobby Parr | 29 | 12 May 1942 | 80 | 1 | 1 | |||
Yvonne | Irene Bradshaw | 31 | 15 Mar 1940 | 83 | 1 | 1 | |||
Uncredited | |||||||||
Local Man | Harry Fielder | 31 | 26 Apr 1940 | 6 Feb 2021 | 80 | 10 | 10 | ||
Man in Pub | Jim O'Brady | 64 | 13 May 1907 | 1 Jan 1991 | 83 | 18 | 18 | ||
Man in Pub | Ernie Rice | 74 | 17 Nov 1896 | 1979 | 85 | 7 | 7 | ||
Tavern Patron | Tina Simmons | 4 | 4 | ||||||
Tavern Patron | Jimmy Charters | 7 | 7 |
Production
FILMING BEGAN | 22 February 1971 | |
UK RELEASE | 7 November 1971 | |
STUDIO | Elstree Studios of Associated British Picture Corporation, Hertfordshire, England |
Footnotes
Following the cancellation of the long-running ABC TV series “The Avengers”, which Albert Fennell and Brian Clemens had been producing for years, they moved to Hammer to produce this film and, in 1972, the equally quirky “Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter”.
By the time this film was made, Martine Beswick had married former Hammer leading man John Richardson.
Husband and wife Ralph Bates and Virginia Wetherell first met as they prepared to shoot the scene in which Bates as Dr. Jekyll kills the prostitute played by Wetherell.
Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection