| The Ugly Duckling | |
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| Directed by | Lance Comfort |
| Screenplay by | Sid Colin Jack Davies |
| Story by | Sid Colin |
| Produced by | Michael Carreras |
| Starring | Bernard Bresslaw Jon Pertwee Reginald Beckwith |
| Cinematography | Michael Reed |
| Edited by | John Dunsford |
| Music by | Douglas Gamley |
| Color process | Black and white |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £110,000[1] |
The Ugly Duckling is a 1959 British science fiction comedy film, directed by Lance Comfort and starring Bernard Bresslaw, Jon Pertwee and Reginald Beckwith.[2] The screenplay was by Sid Colin and Jack Davies. The film is a comic adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde storyline and the opening credits include "with ideas stolen from Robert Louis Stevenson". The film has no connection to the Hans Christian Andersen story.[3] The tagline on posters was "He's a changed man after taking Jekyll's family remedy."[4]
- ^ Marcus Hearn & Alan Barnes, The Hammer Story: The Authorised History of Hammer Films, Titan Books, 2007 p 46
- ^ "The Ugly Duckling". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
- ^ "The Ugly Duckling".
- ^ "The Ugly Duckling - Hammer".