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Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1931) DVD

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Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1931) DVD

Director:

 Rouben Mamoulian

Writers:

 Samuel Hoffenstein (screen play), Percy Heath(screen play)

Stars:

 Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart
 
This first sound version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic morality tale starred Fredric March as the kindly, philanthropic Dr. Jekyll, who makes the fatal mistake of delving into secrets that Man Should Never Know. Fascinated with the notion that within each man lurk impulses for both Good and Evil, Jekyll develops a drug to release the wickedness in himself. The result: the lecherous, lycanthropic Mr. Hyde (one has to keep reminding oneself that the handsome, soft-spoken March plays both roles; small wonder that he won the Academy Award). Jekyll is the honorable suitor of the virtuous Muriel Carew (Rose Hobart), while Hyde is the brutish pursuer of the sluttish "Champagne Ivy" Pearson (Miriam Hopkins, as sexy as she'd ever be in films). It isn't long before the kindly Jekyll is unable to control the wicked Hyde, with tragic results. Director Rouben Mamoulian could often seem like the Brian De Palma of his time, showing off like a first-year film student instead of telling a story. But Mamoulian's excesses work beautifully in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, notably the dizzying first transformation scene (that heartbeat you hear on the soundtrack belongs to Mamoulian himself). Withdrawn from circulation when MGM refilmed the Stevenson novel in 1941, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde resurfaced in the early 1970s.

 

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  1. good special makeup effects 5 Star Review

    Posted by on Jul 4th 2023

    good story with a moral

  2. A unique interpretation of the Famous Book! 4 Star Review

    Posted by on Mar 22nd 2022

    This is, as stated, a different approach to the otherwise classic (by now) film version of the R.L.Stevenson novel. In my humble opinion, it is one of the best interpretation/presentations I have seen. If you have read the book, I recommend grabbing this film from here on Zeus. Every other treatment of this novel seems to be a variation on a "monster-movie" theme, whereas this film, like the book stresses Hyde's behavior and personality change. One could ironically reduce the formula to simple metaphor of alcohol's effect on a tea-teetotaler and be expressed as an extreme display of that psycho-pathology; were it not for the subjective reporting of the novel's narrator keeping us at a safe distance from Hyde's mind
    Tracy is very much the 1931 version of a Hollywood Movie Star, but his performance is not so much in the transformation into Hyde, as how very much separate and different from the good doctor Jekyll he actually is.

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