


“The world's greatest actor in a tremendous story of man at his best and worst!”
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
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Overview
A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.
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John S. RobertsonWhere to Watch
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talisencrw
8.0A very good early silent with both exquisite direction and a fine acting performance by John Barrymore. Well-worth checking out for cinephiles with a heightened interest in the origins of American horror cinema.

CinemaSerf
7.0I'd have to admit that John Barrymore was certainly no oil painting. Unlike so many silent-era film stars, he could actually act, rather then just look longingly into the camera and/or the gal's doey eyes. Here he portrays Robert Louis Stevenson's eponymous characters with quite some menace and skill. The story of the eminently respectable "Jekyll" who is fascinated by the human psyche and who experiments with mind/body altering drugs, discovering his inner and pretty unpleasant id in "Mr Hyde" in the process. There now follows a battle royal between the two personalities, the decent and the m…
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