This bizarro take on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde reimagines the good doctor as a nerdy college chemistry professor with a lounge lizard alter ego.
Tag: 1963
‘The Executioner’ – a satire of Spain under Franco on Criterion Channel
The Executioner (Spain, 1963), Luis García Berlanga’s black comedy about an apprentice undertaker who marries the daughter of a veteran prison executioner and reluctantly takes his father-in-law’s job so they do not lose their government apartment, is a social satire with a sly sense of humor. Nino Manfredi plays the undertaker, a frustrated young man […]
‘Any Number Can Win’ on Criterion Channel
The classic meets the cool when dapper Jean Gabin teams up with smoldering matinee idol Alain Delon in Henri Verneuil’s caper film Any Number Can Win (France, 1963). White-haired Gabin is a little thick and doughy by this time in his career but he carries decades of French crime films and superstar gravitas with him […]