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Director
  
Seymour Friedman

Music director
  
Paul Sawtell

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

4.6/10
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Genre
  
Crime, Horror, Romance

Production
  
Columbia Pictures

The Son of Dr Jekyll movie poster

Writer
  
Mortimer Braus
,
Jack Pollexfen

Release date
  
October 31, 1951

Cast
  
Louis Hayward
(Edward Jekyll / Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Hyde),
Jody Lawrance
(Lynn Utterson),
Alexander Knox
(Dr. Curtis Lanyon),
Lester Matthews
(Sir John Utterson),
Gavin Muir
(Editor Richard Daniels),
Paul Cavanagh
(Insp. Stoddard)

Similar movies
  
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1941)

The Son of Dr. Jekyll is a 1951 American horror film directed by Seymour Friedman and starring Louis Hayward, Jody Lawrance, Lester Matthews and Alexander Knox. Financed and distributed by Columbia Pictures, it is based on a screenplay by Jack Pollexfen and Mortimer Braus. The film is a continuation of Robert Louis Stevenson's original classic 1886 novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

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Jack Pollexfen, the scriptwriter of this film, wrote and produced a sequel in the same vein, The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957), starring Gloria Talbott.

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Plot summary

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The film begins with a prologue set in 1860, where Mr. Hyde is chased down in the streets of London, after murdering his wife at their Soho flat. He escapes to the house of Dr. Jekyll, where he prepares the potion that will transform him back to the respected doctor. Unfortunately, the mob has already set the house ablaze. The flames drive Hyde to the top floor, and in attempt to leap to the ground, he meets his demise when he falls to the ground. As he dies, he changes back to Dr. Jekyll.

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John Utterson and Dr. Lanyon (original characters from Stevenson's novel) mourn their unfortunate friend Dr. Jekyll, until Inspector Stoddard brings the two to the Soho flat, where Jekyll/Hyde has left an orphan behind. Utterson agrees to adopt the young Jekyll, since he and his wife haven't succeeded in having children. Thirty years later, Edward Jekyll, now fiance to Utterson's niece Lynn and a student of Royal Academy of Sciences, is expelled from the academy because of his peculiar and unorthodox experiments. Edward is unaware that he is actually Henry Jekyll's son, and when he inherits the Jekyll Mansion, Dr. Lanyon tells him his tragic father's story.

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Edward and Lynn move to the old Jekyll Mansion for the preparations of their marriage, and soon, Edward feels unwelcome by his neighbors. Discovering his father's laboratory, Edward convinces himself to work on his father's experiments in order to clear the Jekyll name. He hires Michaels, Dr. Jekyll's old assistant, and begins researching. Unfortunately, after Edward first tests the formula on himself, a Hyde-like man appears in the house and murders a number of people. Edward is charged for the murders, and thought insane, is transferred to Dr. Lanyon's sanitarium where the murders continue. Edward begins wondering if it is he who transforms into a murderer or someone else is trying to drive him to insanity.

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It was shown clearly that Lanyon changed chemicals and his father's notebook to frame him and keep control of his estate.

Cast

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  • Louis Hayward as Edward Jekyll / Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • Jody Lawrance as Lynn Utterson
  • Alexander Knox as Dr. Curtis Lanyon
  • Lester Matthews as Sir John Utterson
  • Gavin Muir as Richard Daniels, editor
  • Paul Cavanagh as Inspector Stoddard
  • Rhys Williams as Michaels
  • Claire Carleton as Hazel Sorelle
  • Doris Lloyd as Lottie Sorelle
  • Patrick O'Moore as Joe Sorelle
  • Hamilton Camp as William Bennett, boy throwing rock
  • Robin Hughes as Alec, college roommate
  • Olaf Hytten as Prosecutor
  • Wheaton Chambers as Prosecutor
  • Stapleton Kent as Mr. Arnim
  • Vesey O'Davoren as Utterson's butler
  • Matthew Boulton as Inspector Grey
  • References

    The Son of Dr. Jekyll Wikipedia
    The Son of Dr. Jekyll IMDb The Son of Dr. Jekyll themoviedb.org