The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll

The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll is a lowbudget 1957 horror film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and released by Allied Artists. Originally this film was released in theaters as a double bill with The Cyclops. It features Gloria Talbott as Janet, the daughter of the infamous Dr. Henry Jekyll, and John Agar as her fianc. Janet learns that she may have inherited her fathers condition, and she begin to believe she may be guilty of murder when people are found horribly killed. However, all is not what it seems.

American film critic Andrew Sarris noted that the film had a scenario so atrocious that it takes forty minutes to establish that the daughter of Dr. Jekyll is indeed the daughter of D. Jekyll. Yet film director Gary Don Rhodes suggests that the film may be read as a critically significant text within the melodramatic crisis of female identity theater of the 1950s. He describes the film as an identity quest set in a dark fairy tale.

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