Daughter Of Dr. Jekyll

A somewhat disappointing Edgar G. Ulmer effort, DAUGHTER OF DR. JEKYLL is nonetheless fascinating for the manner in which Ulmer skirts his obviously paltry budget to make a memorable, if minor, horror film. It begins with a sequence in which a smoky silhouette appears on the screen while a narrator provides a short history of Dr. Jekyll and his death. We watch as Jekyll sips the serum, is transformed into Mr. Hyde, and then faces the camera and cackles, "Are you sure?" Enter the title character, Janet (Gloria Talbott), and her fiance, George (John Agar), who arrive at her ancestral mansion, inhabited by her aged guardian, Dr. Lomas (Arthur Shields, brother of actor...