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Barrymore Rocks, Avril 24 2004
* Darn is that loud. Have to turn volumen from 34 down to 12. Note - Have to learn how to change dvd player's on-screen instructions from Spanish back to English.
* DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE has a LOUD church organ accompaniment. This being an Alpha Video release, the music has nothing to do with the on screen action.
* The print quality really varies. It looks like someone patched this together from a number of prints.
* Boy, they sure like getting profile shots of John Barrymore, don't they?
* Hmmm. Characters are chattering away like jaybirds and there's nary a title card to be seen. Wonder if people were better at lip reading in the '20s? Wouldn't help much with this one - some scenes, or portions of scenes, are out of focus.
* Sheesh, some scenes are REALLY washed out.
* The male actors seem to wear more white pancake make-up, eye-liner, mascara and lipstick than the female actors.
* Putting a two-bit white powder wig on the head and talcum on the eyebrows of a bit player does NOT make them look realistically old.
* Ah. Sleaze. The music hall and the Italian dancer Gina (Nita Naldi.) She's performing the "Over-Dressed Veil Dancer's Sashay of Seduction" for the Temptation of Dr. Jekyll scene.
* It worked! He's hooked! This can't be a good thing.
* "... he wakened to a sense of his baser nature" indeed. Stupid title card.
* I don't think they did much make-up work on Barrymore for the Mr. Hyde scenes. Just a little bronze face paint and finger extensions. When he's Jekyll Barrymore looks like David Byrne. When he's Hyde he looks like Ray Davies.
* Woo-hoo. That little transformation jig is a lot more entertaining than Naldi's hootchie dance.
* John Barrymore may be a ham, but he's fun to watch.
* Why does being bad always look like so much more fun than being good? Mr. Hyde goes to a saloon/house of prostitution/opium den (I think), chats up a couple of cute chippies on the ground floor, pokes a sleeper in an open bunk on the second floor and plays peek-a-boo around an overdressed nubile young woman with an Asian man dressed in a silk rickshaw outfit.
* For all of Mr. Hyde's depravity, it's hard to imagine he'd get anything more than 6 months of community service if brought to justice. They might get him on solicitation of prostitution, but he'd be more likely to have his picture posted on a web site than convicted. He DID plant his left foot in that young boy's back when running across the street, literally running him over, but the boy's father accepted the 100 pound check for damages suffered. Granted, he did whomp the snot out of Millicent's father, but Johnnie Cochran could beat that charge before it was even brought to trial.
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Significantly Dated In Style But A Landmark Nonetheless, Juil 17 2004
Directed by John S. Robertson and starring matinee idol John Barrymore in the dual title role, 1920's DR. JECKYLL & MR. HYDE is sometimes described as the "first American horror film." That description is more than a little problematic, but whether it was or it wasn't, DR. JECKYLL AND MR. HYDE certainly put the horror genre on the Hollywood map.Whether or not you happen to like this particular version of the famous Robert Louis Stevenson tale will depend a great deal upon your tolerance for the change in acting styles that has occurred between the silent and the modern era. Some silent stars--Lillian Gish, Ramon Novarro, and Louise Brooks leap to mind--were remarkably subtle and worked to create a new style of acting appropriate to the screen, but most actors played very broadly. John Barrymore, considered one of the greatest actors of his day, is among the latter, and was noted for his larger-than-life performances on stage. He brings that expansiveness to the screen, where it inevitably feels "too big" to the modern viewer. At the time, Barrymore's transformation into the evil Mr. Hyde was considered shocking in its realism, but today these celebrated scenes are more likely to induce snickers than thrills--as will much of Hyde's make-up, which seems excessive to the modern sensibility. Even so, there are aspects of the film which survive quite well, scenes in which one is permitted a glimpse into the power this film once had. For Barrymore's Hyde is, for all his bizarre ugliness, a remarkably seductive creature--and Barrymore uses his hands and eyes in a remarkable way. One feels the sexual pull as much as one feels the revulsion. The 1920 DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE is available in several VHS and DVD releases. Some of these are quite good, but I particularly recommend the Kino version, which offers a good picture, good soundtrack, and several interesting bonuses. Other release versions should be approached with caution, and you should avoid releases by the likes of Alpha or Madacy as you would the plague. They may seem attractive in terms of price, but frankly... in this instance you get what you pay for. GFT, Amazon Reviewer
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Madacy = below 0, Nov. 25 2003
First you're attracted by the price, and then, if you already got the misfortune of acquiring Madacy's product(s), you know it's not even worth that price, since they usually manage to get the worst print they can fish from garbage AND then succeed in making it worse. The fact they're not yet out of business is only the proof for garbage lovers (I've been conned twice, and that's more than enough) being innumerable.
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