I love TCM, but there is generally an issue with Robert Osborne hosting the horror movies, and tonight’s guest programmer with Alec Baldwin was no different. Robert Osborne said tonight that he remembered a version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with Louis Jourdan where as Dr. Jekyll he was unattractive, but as Mr. Hyde he was very handsome, and got all the women he wanted before. But that’s actually the Hammer Films version, from 1960, starring Paul Massie, where Dr. Jekyll becomes a suave sadist as Mr. Hyde, escaping his cheating wife’s infidelity and doing them all in together, in addition to a few others along the way; it’s called: The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll.
Louis Jourdan was in a BBC version of Dracula in 1977, called: Count Dracula, and were it not for some rather dated video effects, this might be considered the best adaptation of the novel. (I like the Univeral and Hammer ones, myself.)
(BTW: I don’t mean to be the horror film nerd Gestapo, but some people really care about such things, and we ought to get accurate information about them from TCM. And while Robert Osborne is an expert on plenty of movies, there are others who are experts on horror films {Greg Mank, Tom Weaver, etc.}, and they should be hosting when TCM shows them.)
Here’s the Hammer Jekyll & Hyde film:
And here’s the BBC Louis Jourdan Count Dracula:
