The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll
Daughter of Dr. Jekyll is a low-budget black-and-white 1957 American horror film produced by Jack Pollexfen, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and released by Allied Artists. The film is a variation on the 1886 gothic novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. It stars Gloria Talbott, John Agar and Arthur Shields. In the film, Janet Smith (Gloria Talbott) learns that she is not only the daughter of the infamous Dr. Henry Jekyll, but is convinced by her guardian, Dr. Lomas (Arthur Shields), that she has inherited her father's transformative condition. Janet begins to believe that she turns into a monster after two local women are found horribly killed and nearly takes her own life because of it. However, all is not what it seems. Daughter of Dr. Jekyll was released in theaters in the US on a double bill with The Cyclops. Plot In the mid-1910s, Janet Smith and fiancé George Hastings arrive at the English manor house that Janet will inherit the next day, when she turns 21. They meet Mrs. Merchant, the housekeeper; Jacob, the groundskeeper; and Maggie, Janet's personal maid. Oddly, Maggie is frightened and in a hurry to get home