Jekyll & Hyde

Michael Caine is the English physician and the evil alter ego he creates in this remake based on R.L. Stevenson’s novella. Sara: Cheryl Ladd. Dr. Lanyon: Joss Ackland. Jeffrey: Ronald Pickup. Sgt. Hornby: Kevin McNally. Lucy: Kim Thomson. Snape: David Schofield. Insp. Palmer: Lee Montague. Poole: Frank Barrie. Mrs. Hackett: Miriam Karlin., Atmospheric interpretation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic. Eminent surgeon and scientist Dr Henry Jekyll pursues his obsession with altering the human form and character by chemical means. The results are not as anticipated…, In assembling the 1990 TV-movie version of Jekyll and Hyde, writer/director David Wickes recycled many of the elements of his 1988 adaptation of Jack the Ripper–including props, costumes, sets, and star Michael Caine. Caine goes through the standard motions as kindly Henry Jekyll, who dabbles where Men Must Not and unleashes his beastly alter ego Mr. Hyde. Anything new here? Well, the character of Dr. Lanyon, Jekyll’s best friend in the original Robert Louis Stevenson story, has been rewritten as his worst enemy. Joss Ackland plays the vitriolic Lanyon, while Cheryl Ladd shows up as a newly fabricated love interest. Jekyll and Hyde has some neat makeup transformations, but otherwise is just the same old cloak ‘n’ fang jazz seen in so many earlier incarnations of the venerable Stevenson yarn.