Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1920 Paramount film ) - wikipedia Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1920 Paramount film ) Not to be confused with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1920 Haydon film ). hide This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages ) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( February 2015 ) This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia 's quality standards. The specific problem is : Major sections are poorly written and developed Please help improve this article if you can. ( November 2016 ) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Theatrical release poster Directed by John S. Robertson Produced by Adolph Zukor Jesse L. Lasky Written by Thomas Russell Sullivan Clara Beranger Based on The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Starring John Barrymore Martha Mansfield Charles W. Lane Nita Naldi Cinematography Roy F. Overbaugh Production company Famous Players - Lasky / Artcraft Pictures Distributed by Paramount Pictures Release date March 18, 1920 ( 1920 - 03 - 18 ) Running time 79 minutes Country United States Language Silent film English intertitles Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1920 horror silent film, produced by Famous Players - Lasky and released through Paramount / Artcraft. The film is based upon Robert Louis Stevenson 's novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and starring actor John Barrymore. The film was directed by John S. Robertson and co-starred Nita Naldi. The scenario was by Clara Beranger and the film is now in the public domain. Dr. Jekyll, a kind and charitable man, believes that everyone has two sides, one good and one evil, otherwise considered a split personality. Using a potion that he concocted, Dr. Jekyll becomes Mr. Hyde, creating havoc throughout his town. Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 2.1 Uncredited 3 Production 4 Reception 4.1 Critical reception 4.2 Accolades 5 See also 6 References 7 External links Plot Henry Jekyll ( John Barrymore ) is a doctor of medicine, an idealist, and philanthropist. When he is not treating the poor in his free clinic, he is in his laboratory experimenting. Sir George Carew ( Brandon Hurst ), the father of his fiancée, Millicent ( Martha Mansfield ), is `` piqued '' by Dr. Jekyll. `` No man could be as good as he looks, '' Carew says. Following dinner one night, Carew taunts Dr. Jekyll in front of their friends, Edward Enfield ( Cecil Clovelly ), Dr. Lanyon ( Charles Lane ) and Utterson ( J. Malcolm Dunn ) proclaiming `` In devoting yourself to others, Jekyll, are n't you neglecting the development of your own life ? '' `` Is n't it by serving others that one develops oneself ? '' Jekyll replies. `` Which self ? '' Carew retorts. `` Man has two - as he has two hands. Because I use my right hand, should I never use my left ? Your really strong man fears nothing. It is the weak one who is afraid of experience. A man can not destroy the savage in him by denying its impulses. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. With your youth, you should live - as I have lived. I have memories. What will you have at my age ? '' And thus the seed is sown, and Jekyll begins his experiments. As he observes, `` Would n't it be marvellous if the two natures in man could be separated - housed in different bodies ? Think what it would mean to yield to every evil impulse, yet leave the soul untouched ! '' Finally, Jekyll develops a potion that turns him into a hideously evil creature that he calls Edward Hyde. As this creature, he is not recognizable as Dr. Jekyll, and, so, to facilitate the comings and goings of Hyde, he tells his servant, Poole ( George Stevens ), that Hyde is to have `` full authority and liberty about the house. '' John Barrymore ( right ) as Mr. Hyde with Louis Wolheim as a dance hall owner. Jekyll thus begins to live his double life. Hyde sets up a room in one of the seediest parts of London. He brings in a girl from the dance hall, Gina ( Nita Naldi ), to live with him there and frequents opium dens, dance halls, and bars - any place that satisfies his evil desires. Although Jekyll has developed a potion that will also return him to his original appearance and character as Dr. Jekyll, each time he takes the potion to become Edward Hyde, he worsens. He not only looks more evil, he becomes more evil, as well. Millicent Carew is worried about the absence of her fiancé, so Sir George goes to call on Jekyll to see what is the matter. Although Jekyll is not home when he calls, Sir George encounters Hyde in the street just as he knocks a small boy to the ground injuring him. To make recompense for his actions, he goes and gets a check which he returns to the boy 's father. Carew notices that the check has been signed by Dr. Jekyll. He confronts Poole who tells him the story of Edward Hyde. In the meantime, Hyde / Jekyll has returned to the lab and, after drinking the potion, returns to his original self. Sir George finds him in the lab and demands to know his relationship with `` a vile thing like Hyde ? '' `` What right have you to question me - you who first tempted me ? '' says Jekyll. Sir George angrily retorts that unless Jekyll is forthcoming with an explanation, he must object to his marriage to Millicent. This angers Jekyll to the point that he suddenly becomes Hyde, right in front of Sir George 's eyes, without benefit of the potion. Sir George runs into the courtyard where Hyde catches him and clubs him to death with his walking stick. Hyde runs to his apartment and destroys any evidence that may link him to Jekyll. He eludes the police by only minutes and returns to his lab where he is able to drink the potion that restores him as Jekyll. In the ensuing days, as Millicent grieves, Jekyll is tortured by his misdeeds. Soon, the drug needed to make the potion that will return him as Dr. Jekyll is depleted and can not be found in all of London. Jekyll stays locked up in his lab fearing he may become Hyde at any moment. Millicent finally goes to see him, but just as she is about to enter the lab, he begins to transform into Hyde. Jekyll consumes the poison in the ring he took from the Italian dancer before he opens the door, fully transformed into Hyde. He lets her in, locks the door and grabs her in his arms. Suddenly, he starts convulsing. Millicent runs from the lab and when Lanyon comes in, he finds Hyde sitting in a chair, having just died, and his appearance returned to that of Dr. Jekyll. He discerns that Jekyll committed suicide, and calls the others ( Poole, Utterson and Millicent ) in, but declares to them that Hyde has killed Dr. Jekyll. In the final shot, Millicent is grieving next to the body of Dr. Jekyll. Cast John Barrymore as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde / Giant spider in dream Brandon Hurst as Sir George Carewe Martha Mansfield as Millicent Carewe, Sir George 's daughter Charles Willis Lane as Dr. Richard Lanyon Cecil Clovelly as Edward Enfield Nita Naldi as Miss Gina, Italian artist Louis Wolheim as Dance Hall proprietor Uncredited J. Malcolm Dunn as John Utterson George Stevens as Poole, Jekyll 's butler Alma Aiken as Extra ; emotional / distraught woman in Jekyll 's office Julia Hurley as Hyde 's Old Landlady Edgard Varèse as Policeman ( ? ) Blanche Ring as Woman with elderly man in music hall May Robson as A prostitute standing outside music hall Production Lobby poster The early part of Jekyll 's initial transformation into Hyde was achieved with no makeup, instead relying solely on Barrymore 's ability to contort his face. In one scene, as Hyde reverts to Jekyll, one of Hyde 's prosthetic fingers can be seen to fly across the screen, having been shaken loose by Barrymore 's convulsions. The character of Millicent Carew does not appear in Stevenson 's original story, but in the 1887 stage version by Thomas Russell Sullivan starring Richard Mansfield. This 1920 film version used the play 's concept of Jekyll being engaged to Carew 's daughter, and Hyde beginning a dalliance with a dance - hall girl. Reception Critical reception This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. ( November 2016 ) Film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 92 %, based on 13 reviews, with a rating average of 7.8 / 10. Film critic Leonard Maltin gave the film 3 out of a possible 4 stars, complimenting Barrymore 's performance as both Jekyll and Hyde, and the film 's production, calling it `` well made ''. Accolades The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists : 2001 : AFI 's 100 Years... 100 Thrills -- Nominated 2003 : AFI 's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains : Dr. Jekyll -- Nominated Hero See also List of American films of 1920 The House That Shadows Built ( 1931 promotional film by Paramount ) References Notes Jump up ^ Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde at the silentera database ; with DVD specifics Jump up ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films : 1911 - 20 by The American Film Institute, c. 1988 Jump up ^ San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday April 25, 1920 ; CINEMA, `` John Barrymore and Julia Hurley ( Imperial ) '', caption under pic, for Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde ( courtesy of ebay for scanned newspaper article ) Jump up ^ Hardy 1995, p. 26. Jump up ^ `` Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1920 ) - Rotten Tomatoes ''. Rotten Tomatoes.com. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2 November 2016. Jump up ^ Maltin, Leonard ; Sader, Luke ; Carson, Darwyn. Leonard Maltin 's 2014 Movie Guide. Penguin Press. p. 390. ISBN 978 - 0 - 451 - 41810 - 4. Jump up ^ `` AFI 's 100 Years... 100 Thrills Nominees '' ( PDF ). Retrieved August 20, 2016. Jump up ^ `` AFI 's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains Nominees '' ( PDF ). Retrieved August 20, 2016. Bibliography Hardy, Phil, ed. ( 1995 ), The Overlook Film Encyclopedia, 3, Overlook Press, ISBN 0 - 87951 - 624 - 0 External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1920 Paramount film ). 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Question: dr jekyll and mr hyde which one is bad
Answer: Mr. Hyde