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MOST SIGNIFICANT FILM VERSIONS OF 'DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE'

date or title is followed by director’s name and (in brackets) the film company (country USA, unless otherwise stated); v = video (from K); a = actors (* = title role), sp = screenplay, ph = photography; aka = also known as

DF = Mereghetti, Paolo (1997). Il Dizionario dei Film (Milano: Baldini & Castoldi)
G = Geduld, Harry M. (1983). The Definitive ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ Companion
JHIP=Jekyll and Hyde. The Musical Thriller. Internet Page
K = King, Charles (1997). ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A Filmography’. Journal of Popular Film and Television 25i: 9-20.
MDB = Movie Databank (Internet)
N = Nollen, Scott Allen (1994). Robert Louis Stevenson: Life, Literature and the Silver Screen. New York: McFarland. R = Rose, Brian A. (1996). Jekyll and Hyde Adapted: Dramatizations of Cultural Anxiety.
W = Wolf, Leonard (ed.). The Essential Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Including the Complete Novel of Robert Louis Stevenson. New York: Plume/Penguin USA.

  1. 1908 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde/A Modern Dr Jekyll, Otis Turner (Selig Polyscope, prod. William N. Selig); a: *Hobart Bosworth, Betty Harte (G2, K1)
  2. 1908 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Sidney Olcott (Kalem); a: *Frank Oakes Rose, Gene Gauntier (G1, K2; K says this was definitely the second Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde film of 1908)
  3. 1913 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Herbert Brenon (Universal Imp; v: Sinister Cinema); a: *King Baggott, Jane Gail, Matt Snyder (G6, K6)
  4. 1913 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Kineto-Kinemacolour, UK) (G7, K7) [2-reel colour film]
  5. 1920 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, John Stuart Robertson (Famous Players-Lasky/Paramount (Paramount-Artcraft, N); v: Kino International, Sinister Cinema, Video Yesteryear); a: *John Barrymore, Nita Naldi, Martha Mansfield, Charles Lane, Louis Wolheim, George Stevens, Brandon Hurst (Carew); sp: Clara S. Beranger (G19, K15) [Carew suggests J should ‘go on the town’, encourages an exotic dancer to seduce him - this introduction of a more libidinous female in addition to the chaste fiancée is an innovation of Beranger (N); J moved by morbid curiosity; Barrymore’s J is the first to indulge in sexual depravity (N); ‘deviates considerably from the novella, yet it… ranks as one of the definitive interpretations of a Stevenson work’ (N); 63 mins.]
  6. 1931 (listed as 1932 by G, W and MDB, but issued at the end of 1931) Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Rouben Mamoulian (Paramount Pictures; v: MGM/UA Home Video); a: Miriam Hopkins (Ivy), *Frederic March, Holmes Herbert, Halliwell Hobbes, Rose Hobart (Muriel), Tempe Piggott, Edgar Norton; sp: Samuel Hoffenstein & Percy Heath; ph: Karl Strauss; sets: Hans Dreier; script published NY 1976 (ed. Richard Anobil) (G23, K23) [introduces the prostitute Ivy Pierson and J’s fiancée Muriel Carew; 97 mins. (W has 90 mins.); ‘usually regarded as the best version’, K; ‘one of the classic American cinema’s true masterpieces’, N; 10 mins removed by censor on reissue in late 1930s - these are restored in the 1988 video except for Ivy’s removal of her clothes behind a blanket in the seduction scene]
  7. 1940 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Warren Wade (NBC); a: *Winfield Hoeny (K29) [TV drama]
  8. 1941 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Victor Fleming (MGM, prod.: Fleming and Saville; v: MGM/UA Home Video); a: *Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman (Ivy), Donald Crisp, Ian Hunter, Lana Turner (Beatrix), C. Aubrey Smith, Barton MacLane, Sara Allgood, Billy Bevan; sp: John Lee Mahin; ph: J. Ruttenberg (G29, K30) [remake of the Mamoulian version with more emphasis on Victorian repression and the psychological interpretation; many critics regard the Mamoulian version as superior, K; ‘a pretentious, overlong, and dramatically bankrupt imitation’ of the Mamoulian version, N; 127 mins (W and N)]
  9. 1964 [Il Dottor Jekyll e Mr Hyde]; a: *Virgilio Savona (not listed by G or K) [Italian TV version, musical; Studio Uno episode]
  10. 1968 Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’/ The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Charles Jarrott (Dan Curtis Productions/CBC/ABC; v: Thriller Videos, MPI Home Videos); a: *Jack Palance, Denholm Eliott (Devlin = Utterson), Leo Glenn (Lanyon), Billie Whitelaw (Gwyn); sp: Ian McLellan Hunter (G55, K56, R) [Canadian 2-part TV drama; nominated for an Emmy Award for ‘Outstanding Dramatic Program’, K; follows the tradition started by the 1931 film of including a prostitute character; N doesn’t like the ‘claustrophobic’ TV drama style and the added characters and traditional accretions (J as humanitarian researcher, final chase etc.) but praises the excellent cast and Palance’s ‘surprisingly effective performance’: ‘a gentle, understated, asexual scientist’ as J, and emphasizing ‘the joyful glee’ as H (so similar to the Hydes of March and Lee)]
  11. 1969 Il dottor Jekyll, (RAI-TV, Italy); a: *Giorgio Albertazzi, Ugo Cardfea, Claudio Gora, Massimo Girotti (Utterson), Bianca Toccafondi; sp: G. Albertazzi & Ghigo De Chiara (not listed by G or K) [TV production]
  12. 1989 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Michael Lindsay-Hogg (Showtime/Think Entertainment, USA; v: Cannon Home Video); a: *Anthony Andrews, Laura Dern, Denholm Elliott; sp: J. Michael Straczynski (K80, MDB) [TV version]

 

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