Horror Movies Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Double Feature (1932/1941)
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Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Double Feature (1932/1941) Overview
Classic Hollywood versions of the story about a doctor who transforms into a murderer.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: NR
Release Date: 7-JUN-2005
Media Type: DVD
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Double Feature (1932/1941) Specifications
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
Fredric March won an Oscar® for playing the protagonist (and antagonist) of Robert Louis Stevenson's story. Dr. Henry Jekyll is an honorable man of science, albeit frustrated at the enforced celibacy of a delayed wedding date. Hyde is the fearsome creature he turns into after drinking a potion, and Hyde's appetites (mostly expressed with Miriam Hopkins's Cockney dance-hall wench) are decidedly unrestrained. March's performance is pretty theatrical, but it's fun to watch; his Hyde twitches and squawks and lopes around like an ape in a tuxedo. Rouben Mamoulian's direction has plenty of the brio of early-thirties Hollywood, and the transformations from Jekyll to Hyde are ingenious for the time. This film followed Dracula and Frankenstein into theaters by a few months, and it stands well with those horror classics--and it's a darn sight more fun (and much more down and dirty) than the 1941 MGM version of Stevenson's tale. --Robert Horton
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
Classy MGM was not the studio most likely to make a horror movie in 1941, and in fact its production of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ended up looking more like a glossy costume drama than a B-movie frightfest. The mood of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale of a divided doctor is ably captured in Joseph Ruttenberg's Oscar-nominated cinematography--more so, perhaps, than in Spencer Tracy's lead performance. Tracy wasn't especially happy about playing the role, although his transformations from good Dr. Jekyll to evil Dr. Hyde are convincing enough. One of the main reasons to see this version of the story is the young, impossibly beautiful Ingrid Bergman, then still a year shy of Casablanca. Bergman was cast in the good-girl part, but proved a shrewd judge of material, even this early in her Hollywood career; she finagled her way into playing the floozy instead, thus securing a more colorful acting platform than Lana Turner, who ended up in the more respectable role. Director Victor Fleming's previous movie was a little number called Gone with the Wind, and the Big Picture approach to that project may have influenced his work here--this Dr. Jekyll is just a bit too stately, too polished to really engage. The picture is so dignified it never cuts loose with the kind of wild invention that marked the 1932 version of the story, which won Fredric March an Oscar. It's the tale as imagined by Jekyll, rather than Hyde. --Robert Horton
Horror Movies Customer Reviews
The idea of DR. Jekyll and Mr. HYDE was used to illustrate everything from mental illness and addiction, and spiritual struggles of the nature of evil. The original film is a masterpiece Barrymore, as the 1932 Fredric March version. March Jekyll is all science, w / Pattern pure benefit of mankind. His Hyde is a cunning, sadistic primitive, like a Neanderthal in a suit. The sequence of processors is legendary, and is the test of time. We find both good and evil in thisruined man. Tenders 1941, Spencer Tracy takes a shot at this. Although it is decent, I think this DJAMH be much lower in March, although both Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner light the screen. Still, this double feature is an essential addition to any horror / sci-fi shelf ...
Strange but familiar - Alan G. Carter - Lindon, UTI do not even know the story, just the basics are all companies though. So ...... It was a story well thought out, and this version of the film was quite superb. Thanks for the opportunity to buy and at a bargain price !!!!!!
Dr. eckyl and Mr Hyde DVD - S. Crim - San Antonio, TXThe quality of the two films were excellent. Just thought the overall content was a bit 'weak. Certainly worth the cost of the DVD.
Scarey DOUBLE feature! - Marianne Laird-Bird - Nutley, NJ USAWill your cat's hair stand on his head. This video came in quickly and in excellent condition. We will do business again with this seller.
spencer tracy!!!! - Patrick Kever - belgiumVery good movie! Spencer Tracy Ingrid Bergman and are amazing !!!!! We are Jekyll and Hyde ourselves !!!!!! Doping is that our personality changes !!!!!
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