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The Ugly Duckling (1959)
Directed by Lance Comfort
Overview
Henry Jekyll was always the outsider, a bungling and awkward buffoon, relegated to waiting for his invitation to participate in life that never arrived: until he discovers a medical formula developed by a dead uncle, which claimed to turn ‘a man of timid disposition into a bold, fearless dragon’. Taking a draught of the elixir Henry is transformed into suave, sophisticated and highly desirable Teddy Hyde. Armed with his new persona, Teddy is ready to face the world; but is Henry ready for the consequences?
Length 84 minutes
Actors
Bernard Bresslaw | Jon Pertwee | Reginald Beckwith | Maudie Edwards | Richard Wattis | Elwyn Brook-Jones | Michael Ripper | David Lodge | Keith Smith | Michael Ward | John Harvey | Harold Goodwin | Norma Marla | Jess Conrad | Mary Wilson | Geremy Phillips | Roger Avon | Cyril Chamberlain | Robert Desmond | Alexander Doré | Jean Driant | Reginald Marsh | Verne Morgan | Nicholas Tanner | Ian Wilson | Lucy Griffiths | Jean Muir