In the Nineteenth Century, in London, the psychologist Charles Marlowe researches a new drug capable to release inhibitions and uses his patients as guinea pigs. He discusses the principles of Freud with his friend Dr. Lanyon and decides to experiment his drug in himself. He becomes the ugly and evil Edward Blake.
Production Details
An Amicus Production
Produced at Shepperton Studios
75 Mins
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Hammer Connections
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Hidden | Death | Age | Hammer Productions |
Art Direction | Tony Curtis | 34 | 25 Jan 1937 | 8 Jan 2021 | 83 | 1 | |
Camera Operator | Bob Kindred | 48 | 2 May 1923 | Dec 1981 | 58 | 1 | |
Continuity | Phyllis Townshend | 1 | |||||
Director of Photography | Moray Grant | 53 | 13 Nov 1917 | 17 Sep 1977 | 59 | 29 | |
Hair Stylist | Joyce James | 2 | |||||
Producer | Max Rosenberg | 57 | 13 Sep 1914 | 14 Jun 2004 | 89 | 1 | |
Sound Mixer | Buster Ambler | 66 | 7 Jul 1905 | 1979 | 73 | 1 | |
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |
Annie | Marjie Lawrence | 39 | 21 Jan 1932 | 16 Jun 2010 | 78 | 1 | |
Deane | Kenneth J Warren | 42 | 25 Sep 1929 | 27 Aug 1973 | 43 | 2 | |
Enfield | Mike Raven | 46 | 15 Nov 1924 | 24 Apr 1997 | 72 | 1 | |
Man At Bar | Ian McCulloch | 31 | 18 Nov 1939 | 18.11.1939 | 84 | 1 | |
Man in Pub | Reg Thomason | 52 | 29 Nov 1918 | 30 Aug 2003 | 84 | 5 | |
Marlowe / Blake | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/christopher-lee/# | 49 | 27 May 1922 | 7 Jun 2015 | 93 | 22 | |
Pipe Smoker with cap in Pub | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/fred-wood/# | 50 | 26 Oct 1921 | 25 Jan 2003 | 81 | 19 | |
Poole | George Merritt | 80 | 10 Dec 1890 | 27 Aug 1977 | 86 | 3 | |
Pub Patron | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/jim-o'brady/# | 64 | 13 May 1907 | 1 Jan 1991 | 83 | 18 | |
Utterson | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/peter-cushing/# | 58 | 26 May 1913 | 11 Aug 1994 | 81 | 25 |
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Footnotes
Christopher Lee (Dr. Charles Marlowe / Edward Blake) previously played Paul Allen in Hammer’s The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960), another adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”.