(1913- US re-release in August 1927) #DrJekyllandMrHyde
Carl Laemmle-relation Antonia Carlotta intro: • Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde ...
1913 - MR. HYDE = THE FIRST #UNIVERSAL MONSTER!
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man & releases a murderer from within himself...
Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 gothic novella 'Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'.
Although the script maintains the essence of the original story, there are a quite a few differences eg: Jekyll is romantically involved with a woman named Alice...
CAST:
William #KingBaggot - Dr. Henry Jekyll/ Mr. Hyde
Jane Gail - Alice, Dr. Jekyll's fiance
Matt B. Snyder - Alice's father
Howard Crampton - Dr. Lanyon
William Sorelle - Utterson, the attorney
Herbert Brenon
Directed by: Herbert Brenon
Producer: Carl Laemmle
IMP - Independent Moving Pictures Co. of America (later became Universal Pictures)
Silent, B&W.
Filmed in Fort Lee, NJ.
It was standard practice for actors of this period to apply their own make-up, King Baggot employed a variety of different greasepaints & a tangled mass of crepe hair for his dual role of Jekyll & Hyde.
"It is through the means of the dissolving process that the transformation is made peculiarly effective... You see the change of the man of good to the man of evil right before your eyes."
George Blaisdell, Moving Picture World.
"...it gave him the chance to play a difficult dual role, but his performance has not aged well... his hunched over walk comes across as forced and ridiculous... evoking comparisons with Jerry Lewis' performance as The Nutty Professor - with his unruly hair and prominent buckteeth."
Troy Howarth, Critic.
🎃 Universal's first gothic literature horror-film, experience the cinematic sparks which led to Frankesntein, Dracula & The Wolf Man!
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4 окт 2024
