Specialty CollectionGenre: SILENT FEATURE FILMS
Description: SILENT FILM. HORROR. SCIENCE FICTION. JOHN BARRYMORE, NITA NALDI, MARTHA MANSFIELD. LEGENDARY JOHN BARRYMORE STARS IN THIS CLASSIC THAT'S CONSIDERED TO BE THE BEST OF THE SEVEN SILENT-ERA VERSIONS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON'S THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE. WE FIRST SEE BARRYMORE AS GENTLEMANLY DR. JEKYLL, AN ESTEEMED LONDON PHYSICIAN WHO DIVIDES HIS TIME BETWEEN HIS PRACTICE AND FREE CLINIC. INTRIGUED BY THE IDEA OF MAN'S GOOD AND BAD NATURES, JEKYLL DECIDES TO EXPLORE THAT DUALITY FOR HIMSELF. HE DEVELOPS A CHEMICAL POTION THAT CHANGES HIM INTO EVIL MR. HYDE...AND ULTIMATELY FINDS HE CAN CONTROL NEITHER THE TRANSFORMATIONS NOR HIS OWN MIND. JEKYLL WAS A FIELD DAY FOR BARRYMORE. THE STUNNING TRANSFORMATIONS, ASSISTED BY MINIMAL MAKE UP AND TIME-LAPSE EFFECTS, RELIED GREATLY ON THE ACTOR'S OWN FACIAL AND BODY CONTORTIONS. THE MAN HAILED AS "THE GREAT PROFILE" HAD TRIUMPHED AGAIN. ONLY THIS TIME, THE PROFILE HAD JAGGED TEETH, SHADOWY EYES - AND MURDEROUS INTENT!
