Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde
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| Directed by | William Crain |
| Produced by | Charles Walker |
| Written by | Lawrence Woolner |
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Bernie Casey Rosalind Cash Marie O'Henry Ji-Tu Cumbuka Milt Kogan Stu Gilliam |
| Music by | Johnny Pate |
| Cinematography | Tak Fujimoto |
| Edited by | John C. Horger |
| Distributed by | Dimension Pictures Inc. |
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87 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde is a 1976 blaxploitation horror film loosely inspired by the novella, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. The film stars Bernie Casey and Rosalind Cash and was directed by William Crain, who had also directed the successful Blacula for American International Pictures in 1972. Along with Crain, the film was written by Larry LeBron and Lawrence Woolner with cinematography by Tak Fujimoto. The movie was filmed primarily in Los Angeles and at locations such as the Watts Towers. Along with other blaxpoitation films, Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde is filled with themes surrounding ideas of race, class, and black power, yet it is unique in that the film depicts these themes through the genre of horror.
Los Angeles Dr. Henry Pride (Bernie Casey) is an accomplished, wealthy, African American medical doctor working on a cure for cirrhosis of the liver along with his colleague, Dr. Billie Worth (Rosalind Cash). Desperate to create this remedy, Pride conducts unethical experiments on others and himself, which turns Pride into a white, Frankenstein-like monster with super-human strength and invincibility as he begins to rampage throughout Watts killing prostitutes and pimps. After not being able to test his remedy on Linda (Marie O'Henry), Pride goes into a rampage which results in him being chased down by the police. Cornered at Watts Towers, Pride attempts to escape by climbing up the towers, which leads to the police gunning him down as he falls to his death. According to Frederick Douglass in the Atlanta Daily World, the film was "for escapism and fun" as "everything is taken in an extreme and comes off as being comical rather than serious."
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