Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Release Year: 1931
Country: USA
Runtime: 98
Rating: 7.1 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

Put yourself in her place! The dreaded night when her lover became a madman!

Writing by: Robert Louis Stevenson - (novel "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde")
Samuel Hoffenstein - (screenplay) and
Percy Heath - (screenplay)

Produced by: Rouben Mamoulian - producer (uncredited)
Adolph Zukor - executive producer (uncredited)

Cast: Fredric March - Dr. Henry L. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde
Miriam Hopkins - Ivy Pearson
Rose Hobart - Muriel Carew
Holmes Herbert - Dr. Lanyon
Halliwell Hobbes - Brig. Gen. Danvers Carew
Edgar Norton - Poole
Tempe Pigott - Mrs. Hawkins (Ivys landlady)
Sam Harris - Dancer (uncredited)
Tom London - Bit part (uncredited)
Arnold Lucy - Utterson (uncredited)
Murdock MacQuarrie - Dissenting doctor in crowd (uncredited)

Music: Woody Pak
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Plot Outline: Dr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that changes him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.
Plot: Based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug it is already too late...

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The very last credit is the phrase "Filmed entirely in the United States of America.", under the US stars-and-stripes flag.

Goofs: We know about 7 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Crew or equipment visible: At the beginning of the movie, when Jekyll is putting on his cape in the "mirror", the reflection of a crewmember can be seen flitting across his stomach in the glass.

Trivia: There are 9 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• The remarkable Jekyll-to-Hyde transition scenes in this film were accomplished by manipulating a series of filters in front of the camera lens, filters which alternately revealed and obscured portions of Fredric Marchs Hyde makeup. During the first transformation scene, the accompanying noises on the soundtrack included portions of Bach, a gong being played backwards, and, reportedly, a recording of director Rouben Mamoulians own heart.
• The heavy make up he wore as Hyde almost damaged Fredric Marchs face.
• Fredric Marchs stunts were performed by Chick Collins.

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Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Release Year: 1941
Country: USA
Runtime: 113
Rating: 5.5 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Victor Fleming
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

A Good Woman! A Bad Woman - who needed the love of both!

It CHILLS you! Half-MAN! Half-MONSTER!

Writing by: Robert Louis Stevenson - (novel "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde")
John Lee Mahin - (writer)
Percy Heath - 1931 screenplay (uncredited)
Samuel Hoffenstein - 1931 screenplay (uncredited)

Produced by: Victor Saville - producer (uncredited)

Cast: Spencer Tracy - Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Hyde
Ingrid Bergman - Ivy Peterson
Lana Turner - Beatrix Emery
Donald Crisp - Sir Charles Emery
Ian Hunter - Dr. John Lanyon
Barton MacLane - Sam Higgins
C. Aubrey Smith - Bishop Manners
Peter Godfrey - Poole, Jekylls Butler
Sara Allgood - Mrs. Higgins
Frederick Worlock - Dr. Heath (as Frederic Worlock)
William Tannen - Intern Fenwick

Music: Franz Waxman Daniele Amfitheatrof Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
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Plot Outline: Dr. Jekyll allows his dark side to run wild when he drinks a potion that turns him into the evil Mr. Hyde.
Plot: Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone. Experiments reveal his evil side, named Hyde. Experience teaches him how evil Hyde can be: he kills Ivy who earlier expressed interest in Jekyll and Sir Charles, Jekylls faincees father.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
  "en la recuerdo di mio padre" - in memory of my father

Goofs: We know about 2 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: When Jekyll and Lanyon drop off Ivy at her home, a wire is visibly attached to Ivy. It evidently helps her as she falls out of the carriage, and again supports her weight as Jekyll "carries" her inside.

Trivia: There are 11 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• The studio had originally cast Ingrid Bergman in the Beatrix Emery role and Lana Turner in the Ivy Peterson role. Bergman felt the role of Ivy was more challenging and persuaded the producers to switch roles with Turner.
• When author W. Somerset Maugham visited the set during the filming, he supposedly watched a bit of Spencer Tracys performance and asked sardonically, "Which one is he now, Jekyll or Hyde?"
• The character of Ivy Peterson was taken not from Robert Louis Stevensons original novella, but from the 1931 film version. Ivy never appears in the original story, nor, for that matter, does Jekylls fianc?e.

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Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Release Year: 1920
Country: USA
Runtime: 67
Rating: 6.8 (0)
Languages: English
Director: John S. Robertson
Sound: Silent
Taglines:

The worlds greatest actor in a tremendous story of man at his best and worst!

Writing by: Robert Louis Stevenson - (story "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde")
Clara Beranger - (scenario) (as Clara S. Beranger)
Thomas Russell Sullivan - play (uncredited)

Produced by: Adolph Zukor - producer (uncredited)

Cast: John Barrymore - Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
Charles Lane - Dr. Richard Lanyon
Brandon Hurst - Sir George Carew
Cecil Clovelly - Edward Enfield
Nita Naldi - Miss Gina - Italian Singer
Alma Aiken - Extra (uncredited)
J. Malcolm Dunn - John Utterson (uncredited)
Martha Mansfield - Millicent Carew - Sir Georges Daughter (uncredited)
George Stevens - Poole, Jekylls Butler (uncredited)
Edgard Varèse - (uncredited)
Louis Wolheim - Music Hall Proprietor (uncredited)

Music: Lee Erwin John Scott
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Plot Outline: Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Plot: Based on the Robert Louis Stevenson story: Doctor Henry Jekylls enthusiasm for science and his selfless acts of service have made him a much-admired man. But as he visits Sir George Carew one evening, his host criticizes him for his reluctance to experience the more sensual side of life. Sir George goads Jekyll into visiting a music hall, where he watches the alluring dancer Gina. Jekyll becomes fascinated with the two contrasting sides of human nature, and he becomes obsessed with the idea of separating them. After extensive work in his laboratory, he devises a formula that does indeed allow him to alternate between two completely different personalities, his own and that of a brutish, lascivious person whom he names Hyde. It is not long before the personality of Hyde begins to dominate Jekylls affairs.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Except for John Barrymore whose name appears above the title, actors were not originally credited in this movie at the start or at the end. Instead, four additional actors and their character names are credited in the inter-titles right before they appear on-screen.

Goofs: We know about 3 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: The glass from which Dr Jekyll drinks the potion during the first transformation changes in size from tall to short between shots.

Trivia: There are 4 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Many adaptations of the Robert Louis Stevensons novelette were written as plays and performed; the earliest in the United States by Thomas Russell Sullivan opened in Boston on 9 May 1887 and moved to New York City on 12 May 1887.
• In the short Renaissance flashback memory sequence, where Hyde is explaining to Gina about the poisonous mysteries of his secret ring, set pieces and costumes were brought from "The Jest". That was a hit play in which John Barrymore had starred with brother Lionel Barrymore on Broadway in 1919 before shooting this picture.
• John Barrymore hauled many of his prized potted plants from his apartment to the set to appear in scenery in the movie.

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