It is a performances centric movie

Expected more

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

The film is not great, despite the efforts. As acting performances, the best are Gerald Sim and Susan Brodrick. Ralph Bates is repeating himself and is not a right choice, not creepy enough, not convincing at all. The same can not be said about Martine Beswick, for her is perhaps her best role. Nice ass and breasts too! Roy Ward Baker is a good director but with other films, especially "The Saint"(TV Series), "The Avengers"(TV Series), "The Baron"(TV Series).

Hammer Films Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde unashamedly pinches elements from the real-life stories of the most famous serial-killer of all Jack The Ripper as well as the grave-robbers Burke & Hare, who later turned to murder & then selling the bodies to unscrupulous doctors for medical research. On top of all this it is also, obviously, based on Robert Louis Stevenson's book The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. Handsome Ralph Bates plays Dr. Jekyll, his alter ego Sister Hyde by the beautiful & seductive-looking Martine Beswick. Like many of Hammer's best movies it has superb production standards with real style & panache. Ralph Bates was an excellent actor & any excuse to ogle the ravishing Martine Beswick in various states of undress is fine by me. An entertaining mishmash of a movie!.

Script by Brian Clemens is wonderfully Gothic: Victorian Dr Jekyll (Ralph Bates) turns to Miss Hyde (Martine Beswick), marvellously evil brunette who keeps her beautiful scarlet dresses clean while murdering prostitutes in the misty streets and creating the legend of Jack the Ripper... Young, obnoxious and equally murderous Jekyll - he thinks prostitutes deserve to die for his scientific experiments - also has time to fall her unsympathetic neighbour (Susan Brodrick) whose presence eventually captures Hyde's murderous eyes... Women's lovely period costumes and atmospheric sets are lushly lit, and score by David Whitaker is wonderful, too. Directed by Roy Ward Baker, this is another marvellously Gothic, crazy masterpiece from Hammer Films - it probably bores sleaze fans to death, but I loved it.

The stiff upper lip and jaw of Ralph Bates finally come into their own in this nice variation of Jekyll and Hyde, which also mixes in good quantities of Jack the Ripper myth and the famous 17th century grave robbers Burke and Hare. Considerably less stiff is Martine Beswick as the doctor's female alter ego. She is absolutely too loose in her ways, but I am certainly not complaining! Both are just the right persons for their clashing roles and superbly so. The actual physical change between the two supreme parts in one person is shown in subtle manners and without great special effects, which not only was cheaper to do, but also leaves a lot for a viewer to imagine and so makes it in a way easier to accept. A wise decision from the makers.The plot idea of unifying the two main story lines of such classic origins is nothing short of brilliant. The invention of elixir of human life using female hormones and how to get it by "uncanny goings in late hours" really does the trick. So does the fascinating and at the same time foul results of the experiment, the mixing of selves and struggle for dominance. Of course much more could have been built in and deepened in the script making the story more intriguing and disturbing. Some needed romantic and freshening humor aspect comes from the continuously snooping neighbors with their funnily pretentious "it doesn't concern us" attitude.In all, this is once again a fun and stylish horror movie from Hammer studios. The bolder style of company's early seventies film is very much present with some slight gore and nudity added in the proceedings. So, now everyone hurry up and see it.