By Robert Louis Stevenson
CDs: 3 Abridged
Everyone has a dark side. Dr Jekyll has discovered the ultimate drug. A chemical that can turn him into something else. Suddenly, he can unleash his deepest cruelties in the guise of the sinister Hyde. Transforming himself at will, he roams the streets of fog-bound London as his monstrous alter-ego. It seems he is master of his fate. It seems he is in complete control. But soon he will discover that his double life comes at a hideous price…
Christopher Lee was one of the world’s most iconic horror and fantasy actors – coming to prominence with the 1957 film ‘The Curse of Frankenstein’ in which he played Frankenstein’s monster. This began a long association with the film studio Hammer – with whom he made a further eleven films including the Transylvanian bloodsucker himself in the 1958 ‘Dracula’, Kharis in ‘The Mummy’ (1959), Sir Henry Baskerville in ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ (1959) and Rasputin in ‘Rasputin, the Mad Monk’ (1966). He also starred in two Denis Wheatley films ‘The Devil Rides Out (1967) and ‘To the Devil a Daughter’ (1976).
Most recently, he starred in ‘The Colour of Magic’ (2008) ‘The Golden Compass’ (2007), ‘Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith’ (2005) & ‘Star Wars: Attack of the Clones’ (2002) and as Saruman in the ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy.
