Climax!

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How long does it take a man to become a beast? By a beast we aren't talking about the average husband who may come home with a protruding lower lip and a chip on his shoulder, we're talking about the kind of beast that stalks the earth as propounded by chemicals.

In the case of Dr. Jekyll takes between 30 and 40 second but there are two men doing the transforming. The good doctor having, perfected his potion that takes away the angel in a man and brings out the devil, must transform himself into the reincarnation of a beast so appalling as to thin the blood of any one watching. Alongside him in this case is a good make-up man who has split seconds to aid in the change of personality. Michael Rennie essays the roll of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in the Gore Vidal adaptation of the famous Robert Louis Stevenson story for TV on "Climax!" tonight at 8:30 p.m. on (2).

He is aided by make-up man Bob Keats in this amazing change of soul.
As you know, Dr. Jekyll perfects his magical potion that separates the good from the bad in a man's soul. He drinks the concoction and immediately begins the transforming of a saint into a devil. Here is how it will be done six times in the "live"'show tonight.

Dr. Jekyll drinks and immediately he slips a couple of thin red felt tubes into his mouth to give him a "beast-like bulge" of the upper and lower lips, adds two round rubber nose plugs to distend and swell the nostrils then adds a first of three "growing" warts to his face.
The camera then pans upward just as Keats adds the first of one three pair of eyebrows air just a bit longer and bushier than Rennie's regular hirsute adornment then adds a wig as the camera continues upward. This takes place for three separate times ... the nose becomes wider the eyebrows more dense the hair falls further down on the forehead until within 40 seconds the camera moves back to reveal the full-blown Mr. Hyde in all his hideousness. But that isn't all... he has to be disrobed of the stuff in the same length of time when the magic spell wears off.