I've just watched the Michael Caine starring TV mini-series for the first time. Put me in mind of Frankenstein - The True Story (and to a lesset extent the 1977 BBC TV Dracula) with it's "star cast doing lavish, literature based horror classics" approach (though this was less 'based on' than 'derived from' Stevenson's story, as the opening credits admit). I assume some things were cut from the TV episodes in order to make a 90 minute feature film presentation, but it wasn't too noticeable. There was a very 80s feel to it with certain (surely unauthentic) hairstyles, sparkling whitened teeth, prosthetics and bladders galore and, above all the cheesy shock ending. Entertaining enough, even when Caine is trying too hard to subdue his Cockney accent and speak like a 'Gent'.
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