Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Ante un auditorio científico el doctor Henry Jekyll expone su teoría de que el ser humano está dividido en dos personalidades, una positiva y otra negativa, y que ambas se pueden separar, pero no logra convencer a sus oyentes. Después de visitar a su prometida Muriel, y paseando con su amigo el doctor Lanyonal que intenta convencer de que su idea es viable, conoce a una joven artista de music-hall, Champagne Ivy. En su laboratorio Jekyll experimenta con una droga y se transforma en el señor Hyde y, bajo esta personalidad y por medio de amenazas, se convierte en amante de Ivy...
Fredric March
Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
Miriam Hopkins
Ivy Pearson
Rose Hobart
Muriel Carew
Holmes Herbert
Dr. John Lanyon
Halliwell Hobbes
Brig. Gen. Sir Danvers Carew
Edgar Norton
Poole
Tempe Pigott
Mrs. Hawkins
Leonard Carey
Briggs, Lanyon's Butler (uncredited)
Sam Harris
Party Guest (uncredited)
Boyd Irwin
Police Inspector (uncredited)
Arnold Lucy
Utterson (uncredited)
Murdock MacQuarrie
Dissenting Doctor at Lecture (uncredited)
Eric Mayne
Lanyon's Associate at Lecture (uncredited)
Robert Adair
Ivy's Admirer at Music Hall (uncredited)
Pat Harmon
Music Hall Customer (uncredited)
John Rogers
Music Hall Waiter (uncredited)
G.L. McDonnell
Hobson, Carew's Butler (uncredited)
Douglas Walton
Blonde Student (uncredited)
Harry Adams
Pub Patron (uncredited)
William Begg
Party Guest (uncredited)
Chili
Chili
John Chard
I have no soul. I'm beyond the pale. I'm one of the living dead!
It's one of the most famous pieces of literature ever written, a genius piece of story telling from the trippy mind of Robert Louis Stevenson. That it has consistently been ripe for film and stage adaptations, and continues to be so since it first surfaced in written form in 1866, is testament to what a devilishly intelligent piece of work it is.
This 1931 version, directed by Rouben Mamoulian and staring Fredric March, may not be 100% faithful to the source, but it's arguably the finest adaptation to screen, led by a superb performance from March and featuring technical guile by Mamoulian and his team. It's wonderfully stylish, and coming as it did before the Hayes Code, it's sexy and dangerous, awash with terrifying cruelty, with the subversive and Freudian psychological beats making for a Gothic horror classic.
Split personality a go go, inhibitions cast asunder, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is priceless. 8/10
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