IS SHE OR ISN'T SHE? That's the question hanging over Edgar Ulmer's 1957 poverty row werewolf movie. Gloria Talbott is about to marry John Agar when Arthur Shields tells her she's really Dr. Jekyll's daughter. Party pooper! Jekyll's monstrous creation Mr. Hyde is here categorized as a werewolf and Talbott starts having nightmares that she has inherited her father's lycanthropy; she wakes up covered in blood and yet another villager has been killed in the night. The mystery isn't much of a mystery as it's pretty clear who the baddie is about 5 minutes into the picture! Especially since at least one of the film's posters spoils the "mystery".
DAUGHTER OF DR. JEKYLL is not great shakes but I suppose an innocuous time-waster.
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One I have not seen. Maybe one day. ;)
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