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Hi there,

I'm a big fan of this movie. Why isn't it on DVD yet?

Why isn't The Bloodbath of Dr. Jekyll or La marge not on DVD yet either

My understanding is that there are complex rights issues holding up Blanche and Docteur Jekyll - the latter in particular seems to be in a real tangle.

Borowczyk in general takes me back to the 80s when I used to haunt the Scala in London. Ever go there, Michael? Jekyll was a title that I never did catch up with, though I think I read in a recent Sight & Sound that you rate it highly, no?

Very highly - it's the best thing he did in his last decade by a fair distance.

I'd love a decent DVD - so far, I've only seen it in dubbed English (though I rather like the cod-Victorian dialogue, and would certainly want an English option on a DVD alongside the original French), and have had to put up with a Godawful pirate VHS to see the bits missing from my legitimate but censored VHS version. But I understand there are problems with it dating right back to a dispute between Borowczyk and the producers at the time of production, which may well be why the film's always been pretty elusive.

And I practically lived at the Scala in the 1980s.