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Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

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).

This Hammer flick was a major turn in the career of Martine Beswick. Her first flick could have been a major role in Dr. No but the director preferred Ursula Andress instead but promised her another role in another James Bond which became From Russia With Love. After Jams Bond she appeared in a lot of flicks but had one problem, she didn't want to do nudity. Even as she was asked to do it she refused in way that her career was influenced by it. But to cut a long story short, she was asked by Hammer to have a lead in this flick, an era were Hammer had a lot of nudity in their flicks and so she agreed to appear naked. Only her breasts should be shown but due a game of the director he asked her to go full monty and somehow the studio was full of people watching her strip. She wasn't offended by going nude and after the Hammer flicks she went into Italian soft core flicks. Once that she was done with that she went to television for series and commercials. So here we have her for the first time in her nudies. Luckily for the Europeans it came in an uncut edition, sadly for the US the nudity was cut out to have a commercial rating. The flick itself hasn't really a typical Hammer Gothic feeling but it still works. It's based on the Jekyll and Hyde story combined with the Jack The Ripper story. The filming is sublime and the acting is really good. Of course there is blood in it but you never see the knife going in, the effects are up to today's standard laughable, especially the transformation from Jekyll to Hyde. Nevertheless, it's enjoyable and surely one to watch and to have in horror collection.

Made in the early 70's, Hammer had the liberty of inserting a few naked breast shots in this loose adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous novel. Now that's always a welcome bonus in any film, especially when they belong to the ravishingly beautiful vamp-queen Martine Beswick. Yay!Wait, why am I opening this mini-review by commenting on Ms. Beswick's undressed upper body parts...? Nevermind that, sorry."Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde" plays out very predictable (of course, we've all seen this famous horror story adapted before), but it's a fun film nonetheless. Things never get tedious and Hammer's vintage horror-vibe is present all throughout. Inserting the "Jack The Ripper" storyline in this adaptation was a nice touch, though I still felt a lot more could have been done with it (well, probably not, due to budget, cast & time restrictions). So in the end, we have a Hammer quickie that felt more like as if it was initially written to be turned into a theatre play. But the film has its terrifying moments and remains entertaining until the end. The climactic conclusion is very short-lived, but satisfying & splendidly executed.

The title strongly implies that this will be a campy, foolish adaptation of Stevenson's classic tale. This could not be further from the truth.In the 1880s Dr Jekyll (Ralph Bates), working on an elixir, discovers that the female hormones required for it to work turn him into his female alter ego, an attractive, dangerous woman (Martine Beswick) whom he calls his sister to keep his interested neighbours at bay. One (Susan Brodrick) is attracted to him, the other,(Lewis Fiander), Brodrick's brother, is attracted to Hyde.This surprisingly good take on the Jekyll and Hyde story also works in the Jack the Ripper murders with Jekyll and Hyde responsible for them as they kill to obtain the necessary female hormones for the experiments. The film is quietly amusing throughout. Highlights include: Bates caressing his well proportioned breasts when he first 'changes'; the truly bizarre triangle between the neighbours as Bates begins to realise that Susan will be a target of Hyde who wants to take over completely; Jekyll caressing the face of the brother unaware that he's changed from Hyde back to Jekyll. Well made and well acted with Bates and Beswick's facial similarities a major plus.