MGM gave the familiar story the big-budget, big-star treatment, but in the process drained it of all of its biting social and psychological implications.
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09/26/07
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
72 %
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Reviews Counted: 18
Fresh: 13
Rotten:5
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: Victor Fleming's version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel accentuates the emotional characteristics of the purely evil Mr. Hyde rather than the terror angle. With superb performances from Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, and... [More]
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, Ingrid Bergman, Donald Crisp
Director: Victor Fleming, Peter Godfrey, Harold F. Kress
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Reviews for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Well shot by Joseph Ruttenberg, and the transformations are effectively handled, but it's generally shallow and anaemic.
01/26/06
The entire effort was misconceived, one that offers more ham than steak.
01/05/04
Less an outright horror film than its predecessor and more a straightforward psychological study. Most of the earlier sex is replaced by a stubborn, straightlaced morality.
12/30/03
The story behind the film (nobody was allowed to see pictures of Tracy transformed prior to release) is more interesting than the film itself, but it's still hard to go wrong with a cast like this.
05/24/03
A little Freudian theory is a dangerous thing. It can make a piece of errant hokum dizzy with significance.
05/21/03
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Spencer Tracy is miscast and overrated in one of the weakest adaptations of the story to date.
08/05/02
...it renders the uttermost strengths of the silent film era, in which the audience was dependent on what went into the picture instead of what came out of the speaker.
06/22/02
Under Victor Fleming's direction, it's sober and turgid but far from unwatchable, thanks exclusively to the caliber of the performances.
09/26/01
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