Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
Timing:
1:38 (98 min)
7.273/10
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Production
Genre
Horror, Science Fiction, Drama
Budget
$535 000
Revenue
$1 300 000
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Rouben Mamoulian, Adolph Zukor
Operator
Composer
Artist
Audition
Editing
William Shea
All team (24)
All team (24)
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- The single-shot sequence of Jekyll's transformation into Mr. Hyde represented the pinnacle of technical progress in cinema at the time. Its filming utilized a complex system of color filters, allowing individual makeup elements to be highlighted sequentially, creating the illusion of fluid movement in his changing appearance. Later, Mario Bava would repeat the technique with color filters in his film "Vampires" (1956).
- Jekyll's transformation into Hyde corresponds precisely with the theory of psychiatrist Cesare Lombroso, who believed that criminal tendencies of a personality could be determined by appearance. In one of the later editions of Lombroso's work, a frame from this film was used as an illustration.
- The shot of the beast-like Hyde pressed against the glass was used as one of the photographs of criminals in Sherlock Holmes's index card file in Igor Maslennikov's film "Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson: Introduction" (1979).
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