A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.
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John Barrymore
Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
Brandon Hurst
Sir George Carewe
Martha Mansfield
Millicent Carewe
Charles Lane
Dr. Richard Lanyon
Cecil Clovelly
Edward Enfield
Nita Naldi
Miss Gina
Louis Wolheim
Music Hall Proprietor
Alma Aiken
Extra (uncredited)
J. Malcolm Dunn
John Utterson (uncredited)
Ferdinand Gottschalk
Old Man at Table in Music Hall (uncredited)
Director
John S. Robertson
Screenplay
Clara Beranger
Tagline
"The world's greatest actor in a tremendous story of man at his best and worst!"
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Production
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
talisencrw
August 23, 2016
A 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
June 6, 2022
I'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 exp...
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