Okay, so I'm watching Abbott and Costello meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the love interest in it is Jekyll's ward - so upper middle class - in Victorian London, a suffragette
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Possible, but if she's still his ward this means she is definitely underaged (under 21). This means that she's a bit out of control, but then her guardian is too busy running around under the effects of the Hyde Potion to watch her properly, I bet ...
It's odd to realize that this was a B-movie back in the day, yet the acting in it between Bud & Lou and Boris Karloff wouldn't be out of place in a much better production.
Actually, Karloff takes the Hyde formula at least part of the time to bump off guys who take an interest in her.* That and he plans at one point to inject her boyfriend with it so he can kill him and then get credit for ridding the world of Hyde AND cover his own tracks as well as remove her lover.
Unfortunately, he tells her all of this while he's preparing the injection, and it doesn't end well for him.
* --One small bit they did in this film that I liked was to show Jekyll-as-Hyde being careful not to hurt his ward when he was carrying her at one point. Of course this was for the actress' sake too, but it helped get the impression across that he loved her in a possessive way rather than simply wanting to use her.
Yeah, what was I thinking? (Though to be fair, it's not Victorian England, but Edwardian if that makes any difference.)
And yet, even though it's an Abbott & Costello comedy, the sets still looked more properly 'Victorian' than a lot of big modern CGI films. Heck, it had better acting, too!
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It's odd to realize that this was a B-movie back in the day, yet the acting in it between Bud & Lou and Boris Karloff wouldn't be out of place in a much better production.
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Unfortunately, he tells her all of this while he's preparing the injection, and it doesn't end well for him.
* --One small bit they did in this film that I liked was to show Jekyll-as-Hyde being careful not to hurt his ward when he was carrying her at one point. Of course this was for the actress' sake too, but it helped get the impression across that he loved her in a possessive way rather than simply wanting to use her.
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And yet, even though it's an Abbott & Costello comedy, the sets still looked more properly 'Victorian' than a lot of big modern CGI films. Heck, it had better acting, too!
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