The 1931 "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" starring Fredric March is not my favorite "Jekyll and Hyde" movie, (that would be the one starring Spencer Tracy), but it's still a pretty good one, nonetheless. You can watch it at 5:00pm on TCM.
I'll have what he...on second thought, no, I don't want what he's having. At least, not without a chaser.
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I kind of prefer the Frederic March version, probably because it predates the Hays Code (and could get away with a little more adultishness).
Too bad that the whole Jekyll/Hyde thing isn't used more in modern cinema (except when Edward Norton turns into a computer-generated comic-book character).
Ah! But it is that adultishness you speak of that is the reason I prefer the Spencer Tracy version. After all, is there anything as salacious as this dream sequence involving naked ladies and whippings in the March version?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWL9ViOQ6ok
True, true. I guess I was thinking more of Miriam Hopkins' character/scenes:
Cor Blimey!
I say!
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