August 26, 2009
frederic march is the best jekyll/hyde. nice effects and pretty racy
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February 1, 2009Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde was one of my favourite childhood films. The special effects are way beyond its time, and the acting is also brilliant its no wonder Frederich March won an oscar for this role. Mr Hyde is immense in this film, he walks around the dark streets of London raping ...( read more)
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August 25, 2008This Hyde is more monkey like, but also a little insultingly African American. Still a very well put together early Horror film with the transformation being impressive. This one sets up the characters and plot as copied in the Spencer Tracy version of a decade later.
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August 7, 2008Attempting to "segregate the soul of man," Victorian scientist Dr. Jekyll invents a potion that accidentally turns him into a sadistic sex maniac who looks like a cross between an ape and an ethnic minority. he draws are inventive visuals, naughty near-nudity from sexy starlet M...( read more)
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June 11, 2007My favorite version of this classic tale of good/evil sides in every person. The makeup effects are outstanding for the time period. And Fredric March plays both sides very well.
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September 6, 2009My favorite of the film adaptations. The basics of the story are known to all, so I will not go into that. Fredric March is amazing in his portrayals of both characters and his transformations between the two are almost unbelievable. Made prior to the Hays Production Code, this w...( read more)
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June 24, 2009The tranformation was unintentionally comic at first but the movie itself is quite good. Better than some of the more famous ones.
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June 10, 2009An intense performance from Fredric March highlight this chilling adaptation of the Louis Stevenson classic. Hyde is particularly terrifying, more of amoral monster than a physical one.
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November 7, 2008This movie could be an allegory for the old sin nature that lives within us all. We must choose righteousness and not licentiousness. For Dr. Jekyll, a man who would be described as having good character, his sin nature took over and began to control him.
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