# Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931 film)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1931 American film about a doctor who unleashes his evil side with a serum.
    Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. Written by Samuel Hoffenstein and Percy Heath, based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.

## Quotes

* I have no soul. I'm beyond the pale. I'm one of the living dead!
** Dr. Jekyll
* It's the things one can't do that always tempt me.
** Dr. Jekyll
* Gentlemen! London is so full of fog, that it has penetrated our minds, set boundaries for our vision. As men of science, we should be curious and bold enough to peek beyond it — into the many wonders it conceals.
** Dr. Jekyll
* I shall not dwell today on the secrets of the human body, in sickness and in health. Today I want to talk to you of a greater marvel: the soul of man!
** Dr. Jekyll
* My analysis of this soul, the human psyche, leads me to believe that man is not truly one — but, truly two. One of him strives for the nobilities of life. This we call his good self. The other, seeks an expression of impulses that bind him to some dim animal relation with the earth. This — we may call the bad. These two carry out an eternal struggle in the nature of man. Yet, they are chained together — and that chain spells repression to the evil, remorse to the good. Now, if these two selves could be separated from each other, how much freer the good in us would be? What heights it might scale? And the so-called evil, once liberated, would fulfill itself and trouble us no more. I believe the day is not far off, when this separation will be possible.
** Dr. Jekyll
* Sometimes a doctor must hurt you a little to make you well, right?
** Dr. Jekyll
* You ought to wear squeaky shoes, Hobson.
** Dr. Jekyll
* I'm a doctor, you know, and I'll call that kiss my fee.
** Dr. Jekyll
* "Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down."
** Dr. Jekyll, quoting from Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale"
* I grant you, I'm no beauty. But, under this exterior, you'll find the very flower of man. Look at me. Do you suppose I'd let anybody stand in my way?
** Mr. Hyde
* Perhaps you prefer a gentleman. One of those fine-mannered and honorable gentlemen. Those panting hypocrites who like your legs but talk about your garters.
** Mr. Hyde
* Free! Free at last!
** Mr. Hyde
* Take me. Take me soon!
** Muriel Carew
* Drop that knife!
** Dr. Lanyon [last line]

## Dialogue

    Dr. Lanyon: Perhaps you're forgetting, you're engaged to Muriel.
    Dr. Jekyll: Forgotten it? Can a man dying of thirst forget water? And do you know what would happen to that thirst if it were to be denied water?
    Dr. Lanyon: If I understand you correctly, you sound almost indecent.
    Dr. Jekyll: What names you give things!
    Dr. Lanyon: You're a rebel, and see what it has done for you. You're in the power of this monster that you have created.
    Dr. Jekyll: I'll never take that drug again!
    Dr. Lanyon: Yes, but you told me you became that monster tonight not of your own accord. It will happen again.
    Dr. Jekyll: It never will. I'm sure of it. I'll conquer it!
    Dr. Lanyon: Too late. You cannot conquer it. It has conquered you!
    Dr. Jekyll: I can't wait any longer. We shall go to Devon for our honeymoon and live on love and strawberries and the sight of the sea!
    Muriel Carew: And moonlight.
    Dr. Jekyll: Endless moonlight!
    Dr. Lanyon: I'm afraid you offended the General.
    Dr. Jekyll: Offended him! It's a pity I didn't strangle the old walrus!
    Dr. Lanyon: Well, I hope the responsibilities of marriage will sober you up.
    Dr. Jekyll: I'm not marrying to be sober. I'm marrying to be drunk! Drunk with love and life and experiments.
    Dr. Jekyll: You have no interests in science at all! You have no dreams, no curiosity.
    Dr. Lanyon: There are bounds beyond which one should not go.
    Dr. Jekyll: Yes, it isn't done, I suppose. I tell you there are no bounds, Lanyon.

## Taglines

* Put yourself in her place! The dreaded night when her lover became a madman!
* Romantic — and shocking... spine chilling — and heartrending

## Cast

* Fredric March — Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
* Miriam Hopkins — Ivy Pearson
* Rose Hobart — Muriel Carew
* Holmes Herbert — Dr. John Lanyon
* Halliwell Hobbes — Brigadier General Sir Danvers Carew
* Edgar Norton — Poole
* Tempe Pigott — Mrs. Hawkins
* Douglas Walton — Blonde Student

## External links

* Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde quotes at the Internet Movie Database