The Missing (1999)

Actors: Ken Sallows (editor), Fiorenzo Fiorentini (actor), Martin Vaughan (actor), Fabrizio Bentivoglio (actor), Bruce Smeaton (composer), Serena Gattuso (miscellaneous crew), Mason Curtis (miscellaneous crew), Jim Stark (producer), Syd Brisbane (actor), David Franklin (actor), Enrico Latella (miscellaneous crew), Marco Valerio Pugini (producer), David Ngoombujarra (actor), Sandra Schulberg (producer), Lynda House (producer),

Genres: Crime, Mystery, Thriller,

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)

Actors: Oliver Reed (actor), Denis Shaw (actor), Terence Fisher (director), Michael Carreras (producer), Robert Louis Stevenson (writer), Tilly Day (miscellaneous crew), Arthur Lovegrove (actor), Walter Gotell (actor), Frank Atkinson (actor), Francis De Wolff (actor), Christopher Lee (actor), Dawn Addams (actress), Anthony Nelson Keys (producer), David Kossoff (actor), Eric Boyd-Perkins (editor),

Plot: Dr. Henry Jekyll is a dull, bookish scientist who spends more time with his lab animals testing theories of alternate personalities than with his beautiful, young wife. Kitty Jekyll has given up trying to find any passion in her distant, preoccupied husband and is involved in an affair with one of Jekyll's old 'friends,' Paul Allen, a weak slacker and wastrel who relies on Jekyll to pay his numerous gambling debts. After experimenting on himself, the bearded, tweedy Jekyll transforms himself into the young, dynamic, and self-confidant Edward Hyde. In his new character he befriends Allen, who has no idea that this clean-cut, handsome playboy prone to outbursts of violence is really Jekyll. As Hyde, he encourages Allen to introduce him to the dark underbelly of London's night life including opium dens and sex clubs, where he begins an affair with the sensual courtesan Maria, an exotic dancer and snake charmer. When he tries to seduce Allen's mistress, in reality his own wife, he is frustrated to find she prefers her decadent lover to him.

Keywords: 1880s, 19th-century, aging, alter-ego, arson, bare-knuckle-fighting, based-on-novel, bitten-by-a-snake, can-can, cancan-dance
Genres: Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi,
Taglines: Sometimes, Terror Has A Handsome Face. LIKE NOTHING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN! Robert Louis Stevenson's Study in Terrifying Evul! THE NERVE-SHATTERING STORY OF A MAN WHO COMMITTED EVRY OUTRAGE IN THE BOOK... LIVING A LIFE OF HORROR BEYOND IMAGINATION!

Quotes:

Dr. Henry Jekyll: [to Litauer] This moral quibbling is useless. Man as he is comprises two beings: one of whom I call man as he could be. In his perfection this inner man is beyond good and evil.::Dr. Ernst Littauer: And the other man?::Dr. Henry Jekyll: He too is beyond good and evil - man as he would be... free of all the restictions society imposes on us... subject only to his own will.

Dr. Henry Jekyll: [to Litauer] Resigning my appointment freed me from idiots who are no more scientists than I am a priest!

Dr. Henry Jekyll: London and I are virgins to one another.

Dr. Henry Jekyll: [Referring to deaf and dumb schoolchildren who are fighting at recess] In each one of these dumb human animals there is a personality which shows itself only in play.::Dr. Ernst Littauer: Dumb human animals? Henry, these are not pretty guinea pigs; they are children who cannot speak.::Dr. Henry Jekyll: But I am convinced that, in this case, the not speaking is a refusal of one part of the mind to allow the other part to express itself freely.::Dr. Ernst Littauer: You suggest they play out what they cannot speak out?::Dr. Henry Jekyll: Precisely!::Dr. Ernst Littauer: You are the same Hnry Jekyll, forever seeking keys to the locked doors of the mind.

Dr. Henry Jekyll: [Thunderstruck by the sensual beauty of the scantily clad exotic dancer] A tigress!::Paul Allen: [Detached] Tigers needn't lick their lips over her unless they're very rich.::Dr. Henry Jekyll: Is she so exclusive?::Paul Allen: Only princes, pashes, millionaires, or distinguished actor/managers need apply. [Aware of Hyde's fascination with the dancer as she continues her routine which climaxes with her putting the snake's head in her mouth] Forget it, John boy. She's not in the prep school class. Believe me, I've tried.

Paul Allen: [as the scantily clad Maria walks by their table going to her dressing room] Ah, Maria! The unattainable Eve with her apples and snakes.::Maria: [Politely] It's a pleasure to see you again, Mr. Allen.::Paul Allen: You have a new admirer, my dear, Mr. Edward Hyde.::Dr. Henry Jekyll: [Obviously attracted to her] Enchanted! My sincere compliments.::Maria: You are most kind, Mr. Hyde.::Paul Allen: Such natural manners. She only uses Christian names in bed.::[Insulted, Maria throws a drink from the table in his face]

Maria: [In her dressing room] Your friend talked to me like a common whore.::Dr. Henry Jekyll: In all fairness he never implied you were common.::Maria: [She takes off her mask and Hyde is struck by her exotic beauty] Just how much money did you have in mind, Mr. Hyde?::Dr. Henry Jekyll: I would not insult so beautiful a woman by offering her anything so trivial.::Maria: [Dismissively] So, thank you for your politeness, but good night.::Dr. Henry Jekyll: Don't mention it. [She walks into her bedroom and he confidently follows]::Maria: I have to dress.::Dr. Henry Jekyll: Don't let me prevent you.::Maria: But I have an appointment.::Dr. Henry Jekyll: I'm afraid you'll be late.::Maria: What could possibly detain me?::Dr. Henry Jekyll: [Confidently] I intend to. [laughs]::Maria: [Feigning insult] You are impertinent Mr. Hyde!::Dr. Henry Jekyll: [Cooly] Yes, that is so.::Maria: [Intrigued] You have an amusing approach.::Dr. Henry Jekyll: Merely direct.::Maria: You are very confident, aren't you?::Dr. Henry Jekyll: [Lighting a cigarillo] Could a man without confidence approach you?::Maria: The men who beg get nothing.::Dr. Henry Jekyll: I do not beg.::Maria: If a man buys, he pays much but gets very little.::Dr. Henry Jekyll: I am not buying.::Maria: [She approaches him] You do not buy... you do not beg. [She takes his cigarillo, puts it in her mouth suggestively, and blows the smoke in his face] Is there anywhere a man who simply takes?::Dr. Henry Jekyll: [Taking the cigarillo out of her hand] I am that man.::Maria: I thought you were. [She puts her arms around his neck and they they kiss passionately as he takes her down to the bed and begins to undress her]

Dr. Henry Jekyll: I'm new to your wicked city.::Cabby: [after Jekyll is out of earshot] It's only wicked if you're poor, sir.

Clubman: Damn bad luck you have been having, I hear, Allen, old man.::Paul Allen: Damn bad luck.::Clubman: Oh, well. Luck's a bitch, old boy [laughs] .::Paul Allen: I shouldn't think so... Always have the best possible luck with bitches. Almost always, anyway.::Clubman: [laughs heartily] Well I'm swill. [drinks and walks way]