The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Miss Osbourne
– It's the engagement party for brilliant young Dr. Henry Jekyll and his fiancée, the beautiful Fanny..
It's the engagement party for brilliant young Dr. Henry Jekyll and his fiancée, the beautiful Fanny Osbourne, attended by various pillars of Victorian society. But when people are found raped and murdered outside and ultimately inside the house, it becomes clear that a madman has broken in to disrupt the festivities - but who is he? And why does Dr. Jekyll keep sneaking off to his laboratory?
17 Jun 1981
French
Walerian Borowczyk
Walerian Borowczyk (screenplay), Robert Louis Stevenson (novel)
Udo Kier, Marina Pierro, Patrick Magee, Gérard Zalcberg
The film takes place before, during and immediately after the engagement party of Dr.Henry Jekyll and Miss Fanny Osborne, attended by numerous highly respectable guests (a general, a doctor, a priest, a lawyer), the last of which informs the company that a child has been murdered in the street outside. While the others watch a young dancer perform, Dr.Jekyll instructs the lawyer to alter his will, leaving everything to a certain Mr.Hyde. Shortly afterwards, the dancer is found murdered, and the guests realise that one of their number must be a maniac with a prodigious sexual appetite...
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