The Son of Dr. Jekyll Reviews

Hayward grows up and wants to set the record straight--his father was not the madman everyone made him out to be. But this film moves so slowly, the audience wants them both dead and buried anyway. It begins with the original Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde being killed and his son being hidden away by a couple of the doctor's friends. It catches up to Hayward 30 years later as he is getting ready to marry Lawrence. The two old-timers then tell him about his father's reputed personality disorder. He puts off the wedding to clear his dad's name but Knox, who had helped take care of Hayward, attempts out of greed to get the son to follow in his father's path. With the whole town against him, Hayward finally proves his innocence. But in the finale he dies in a fire, like his father did 30 years before.