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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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It took John Barrymore to bring class to the American horror film, at least in the eyes of the industry. Dignified and virtuous as Dr. Henry Jekyll in this 1920 silent, Barrymore transforms into id incarnate as the lascivious Mr. Hyde. With almost no makeup beyond his gnarled, knobby fingers and greasy hair, Barrymore relies almost solely on a bug-eyed grimace, a spidery body language, and pure theatrical flourish. He tends to be hammy as the leering beast of a thug but brings a tortured struggle to the repressed doctor, horrified at the demon he's unleashed, guilty that he enjoys Hyde's unrestrained life of drinking and whoring, and terrified that he can no longer control the transformations. Martha Mansfield costars as his pure and innocent sweetheart, and Nita Naldi (the vamp of Blood and Sand) has a small but memorable role as the world-weary dance hall darling who first "wakens" Jekyll's "baser nature".

Title: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Genre: Horror-Monsters, Silent Films
Starring: John Barrymore, Henry Bergman, Charles Chaplin, Martha Mansfield, Jackie Coogan, Lita Grey, J. Malcolm Dunn, Baby Hathaway, Raymond Lee, Cecil Clovelly
Director: John S. Robertson
Studio: Kino Lorber
Attributes: Silent Movie
Release Date: 10/9/2001
Original Year: 1920
Product Type: DVD
Rated: UNR
UPC: 738329021726
Item #: KOV021726

Closed Caption: No
Street Date: 10/9/2001
This product is a special order
Run Time: 73 minutes

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