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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Adolph Zukor presente ; scenario by Clara S. Berlanger ; Famous Players-Lasky Corporation ; a Paramount Artcraft picture ; directed by John S. Robertson.
LIBRA DVD 011 433
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- John Barrymore collection.
- Standardized Title:
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Motion picture : 1920)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894--Film adaptations.
- Stevenson, Robert Louis.
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.
- Good and evil--Drama.
- Good and evil.
- Human experimentation in medicine.
- Human experimentation in medicine--Drama.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Silent films.
- Horror films.
- Fiction films.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (79 min.) : sound, black and white, tinted ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Edition:
- Deluxe collector's edition ; Full-frame.
- Other Title:
- Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Kino on Video, [2001]
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Dr. Jekyll, an idealistic London doctor, has a weakness for experiments which take him to the boundaries of human consciousness and experience. When Sir George Carew, father of the girl Jekyll loves, accuses him of being afraid of temptation, he finds a drug which allows him to separate the evil side of his personality from the good; as Edward Hyde, he embarks upon a career of crime.
- Participant:
- John Barrymore, Martha Mansfield, Louis Wolheim, Brandon Hurst, Charles Lane, Nita Naldi.
- Credits:
- Cinematographer, Roy Overbaugh; musical score compiled by Rodney Sauer, assisted by Susan Hall and performed by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.
- Notes:
- Silent film accompanied by music; English intertitles.
- Videodisc release of the silent motion picture produced in 1920.
- Based on The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / by Robert Louis Stevenson.
- Aspect ratio 1.33:1.
- Special features: "The transformation scene," a 1909 audio recording; "Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride," a 1925 one-reel parody starring Stan Laurel; "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," excerpt of a rival 1920 version starring Sheldon Lewis; "The many faces of Jekyll/Hyde," an illustrated essay on the story's origins and incarnations; about the score by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.
- Local Notes:
- One copy issued as part of the series The John Barrymore collection.
- Contains:
- Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride
- OCLC:
- 48500766
- Publisher Number:
- 738329021726
- K217 Kino on Video
- K217 DVD Kino on Video
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