The Two Faces of Dr Jeckyll – 1960

A Hammer film production released by Columbia Pictures
Copyright MCMLX by Hammer film Productions Limited – All rights reserved
The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious and any similarity to the name, character, of history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional
RCA Sound Recording
Produced at Bray Studios, England
Print by Technicolor 88 mins Megascope
Storyline
London, 1874: Dr Henry Jekyll is carrying out controversial experiments, experiments which lead to the emergence of his debauched and amoral alter ego, Edward Hyde. Jekyll becomes progressively less able to control his other self, which eventually takes murderous revenge of his faithless wife and her lover.
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Crew
Function | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits |
Assistant Director | John Peverall | 39 | 1921 | 3 Oct 2009 | 88 | 20 |
Associate Producer | Anthony Nelson-Keys | 48 | 13 Nov 1911 | 19 Mar 1985 | 73 | 41 |
Camera Operator | Len Harris | 43 | 19 May 1916 | 21 Feb 1995 | 78 | 52 |
Continuity | Tilly Day | 57 | 1 Jan 1903 | 1 Jan 1994 | 91 | 12 |
Costume Designer | Mayo (Antoine Malliarakis) | 15 Feb 2905 | 1 Oct 1990 | 1 | ||
Dance Direction | Julie Mendez | 22 | 1938 | 15 Jun 2013 | 75 | 1 |
Directed by | Terence Fisher | 55 | 23 Feb 1904 | 18 Jun 1980 | 76 | 31 |
Director of Photography | Jack Asher, BSc | 43 | 29 Mar 1916 | 1 Apr 1991 | 75 | 14 |
Editor | Eric Boyd-Perkins | 43 | 1917 | 4 Dec 2014 | 97 | 10 |
Hairdresser | Ivy Emmerton | 7 | ||||
Make-up Artist | Roy Ashton | 50 | 16 Apr 1909 | 10 Jan 1995 | 85 | 36 |
Music and Songs Composed by | David Heneker | 53 | 31 Jan 1906 | 20 Jan 2001 | 94 | 1 |
Music and Songs Composed by | Monty Norman | 31 | 4 Apr 1928 | Living | 93 | 1 |
Musical Supervision | John Hollingsworth | 43 | 20 Mar 1916 | 29 Dec 1963 | 47 | 36 |
Produced by | Michael Carreras | 32 | 21 Dec 1927 | 19 Apr 1994 | 66 | 83 |
Production Designer | Bernard Robinson | 47 | 28 Jul 1912 | 2 Mar 1970 | 57 | 46 |
Production Manager | Clifford Parkes | 12 | ||||
Screenplay by | Wolf Mankowitz | 35 | 7 Nov 1924 | 20 May 1998 | 73 | 1 |
Sound Editor | Archie Ludski, GBFE | 30 | 19 Jul 1929 | 10 Oct 2004 | 75 | 5 |
Sound Recordist | Jock May | 55 | 1905 | 8 Jan 1991 | 86 | 29 |
Supervising Editor | James Needs | 40 | 17 Oct 1919 | 2003 | 83 | 111 |
Wardrobe Mistress | Molly Arbuthnot | 51 | 19 Dec 1908 | 1 Nov 2001 | 92 | 48 |
Cast
Character | Actor | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Appearances |
Beau | Oliver Reed | 21 | 13 Feb 1938 | 2 May 1999 | 61 | 9 |
Clubman | William Kendall | 56 | 26 Aug 1903 | 1 Apr 1984 | 80 | 1 |
Dr Henry Jekyll/Edward Hyde | Paul Massie | 27 | 7 Jul 1932 | 8 Jun 2011 | 78 | 1 |
Inspector | Francis De Wolff | 46 | 7 Jan 1913 | 18 Apr 1984 | 71 | 3 |
Jenny | Joy Webster | 26 | 1934 | Living | 87 | 2 |
Kitty | Dawn Addams | 29 | 21 Jan 1930 | 7 May 1985 | 55 | 2 |
Litauer | David Kossof | 40 | 24 Nov 1919 | 23 Mar 2005 | 85 | 1 |
Maria | Norma Marla | 2 | ||||
Nanny | Helen Goss | 56 | 15 Oct 1903 | 1 Aug 1985 | 81 | 2 |
Paul Allen | Christopher Lee | 37 | 27 May 1922 | 7 Jun 2015 | 93 | 22 |
Sphinx Girl | Magda Miller | 25 | 1935 | Living | 86 | 1 |
Footnotes
Reviews for this film were mixed to negative.
The Monthly Film Bulletin of the U.K. wrote that the film “may be forgiven for tampering with a classic, but not for doing so with such a depressing lack of either wit or competence … Silliness, in fact, has got the better of the film to such an extent that even its most calculatedly vicious episodes appear only mildly grotesque”.
Variety gave the film a good review, praising Paul Massie for an “interesting performance” and Jack Asher for “colorful and sure” camerawork.
The film lost Hammer an estimated £30,000.
Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection