Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

+ intro by Geoff Andrew, Programmer-at-Large

Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins excel in Rouben Mamoulian’s superb adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella, now beautifully restored in 4K.

  • Director

    Rouben Mamoulian

  • With

    Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Holmes Herbert

  • USA 1931. 96min

  • Digital (restoration)

  • Certificate

    12A

Probably still the finest adaptation of Stevenson’s much-filmed novella, this pre-Code classic explicitly links Jekyll’s troubled transformation into the monstrous Hyde to Victorian society’s oppression of his sexual desires. One of the greatest directors of the 30s, Mamoulian used technical innovations, superb lighting and imaginative editing to create a Gothic masterpiece; March and Hopkins, especially, rewarded him with superb performances.

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