Experiment in Evil
- IMDb link: 0053348
- IMDb rating: 6.5 (1,421 votes)
- Genres: Sci-Fi, Horror, Drama
- Director: Jean Renoir
- Cast: Jean-Louis Barrault, Jean Topart, Teddy Bilis, Sylviane Margolle, Michel Vitold and others
- Release date: 16 Nov 1961
- Release year: 1959
- Runtime: 95 minutes
- Country: France
- Keywords: robert louis stevenson, renoir, jekyll, split personality, human experimentation, jekyll and hyde, based on novel, character name in title
Plot:
When the lawyer Joly receives the testament of his friend and psychiatrist Dr. Cordelier, Joly realizes that he is giving all his fortune and assets to his unknown patient Opale. When Joly learns that Opale is an evil man, he believes his friend is being threatened or blackmailed by Opale. Soon Opale murders a man on the street and the psychiatrist Dr. Lucien Severin, who has a beef with Dr. Cordelier due to his experiments. After a party at Dr. Cordelier's house, his butler Desire summons Joly since Dr. Cordelier has locked himself in the laboratory and now he is screaming in pain. Joly and Dr. Cordelier's employees break in the laboratory and find Opale inside. He asks to everyone but Joly to leave the laboratory and gives a tape to the lawyer to learn what happened with Dr. Cordelier.