Oct 29th
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde**
US 1920. Paramount Artcraft. 63m. bw. silent
A straightforward, economical and in some ways subtler version than most others (certainly in terms of the make-up) of the Robert Louis Stevenson tale, not quite as zestful as the later 1931 version with Fredric March, but certainly with unsettling moments, and notable for most of the main transformation scene taking place in front of camera, without use of trick photography.
Written by: Clara S. Beranger, from the play by Thomas Russell Sullivan, based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Producer: Adolph Zukor.
Director: John S. Robertson.
Starring: John Barrymore, Nita Naldi, Martha Mansfield, Brandon Hurst, Charles Lane, Cecil Clovelly, J. Malcolm Dunn, Louis Wolheim.
Photography: Roy Overbaugh.
Music: Michael Murphy.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde**
US 1920. Paramount Artcraft. 63m. bw. silent
A straightforward, economical and in some ways subtler version than most others (certainly in terms of the make-up) of the Robert Louis Stevenson tale, not quite as zestful as the later 1931 version with Fredric March, but certainly with unsettling moments, and notable for most of the main transformation scene taking place in front of camera, without use of trick photography.
Written by: Clara S. Beranger, from the play by Thomas Russell Sullivan, based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Producer: Adolph Zukor.
Director: John S. Robertson.
Starring: John Barrymore, Nita Naldi, Martha Mansfield, Brandon Hurst, Charles Lane, Cecil Clovelly, J. Malcolm Dunn, Louis Wolheim.
Photography: Roy Overbaugh.
Music: Michael Murphy.
Labels: Horror, silent films
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