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The Doctor's Horrible Experiment (French: Le Testament du docteur Cordelier) is a 1959 French black-and-white television film directed by Jean Renoir. It has been released in the United Kingdom as Experiment in Evil and on DVD as The Testament of Doctor Cordelier.
Synopsis. Dr. Cordelier, living in a suburb of Paris, withdraws from society to pursue research into the functioning of the human brain. His lifelong friend, Maître Joly, becomes concerned when Cordelier draws up a will that bequeaths his entire estate to a stranger, Monsieur Opale; he cannot understand why Cordelier defends him, considering ...
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Apr 20, 2007 · Using Robert Louis Stevenson's Victorian formality as a starting point, he steers the story deliberately from the prim world of the doctor to the anarchy of Opale, taking notice along the way of...
Jun 16, 2015 · The Testament of Dr Cordelier – also known as Experiment in Evil and the more sensationalistic The Doctor’s Horrible Experiment – is an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), a classic story that plumbs the divide of human nature between socialisation and animal instinct.
Jean Renoir. Director, Screenplay. Robert Louis Stevenson. Novel. Dr. Cordelier, living in a suburb of Paris, withdraws from society to pursue research into the functioning of the human brain.
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