A brilliant doctor in 19th century London experiments with a strange potion which causes him to turn into and evil, hideous, murferous dwarf who terrorizes the people. The good and evil sides of the same man battle for his body and soul.
Presents nineteenth-century Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson's novel about good and evil in human nature, in which a scientist named Dr. Jekyll is transformed by a drug into a violently evil version of himself named Mr. Hyde. Also includes Vladimir Nabokov's Cornell lecture on the novel.
A respected London doctor invents a formula which turns him into an evil and ugly person who stalks the streets at night killing people, and by the time his friends discover his secret, it is too late.