Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.8/10   

Director:

Victor Fleming

Escritores:

Robert Louis Stevenson (novel)
John Lee Mahin (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

septiembre 1941 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Horror | Ciencia-Ficción

Frase comercial:

A Good Woman! A Bad Woman - who needed the love of both!

Plot:

Dr. Jekyll allows his dark side to run wild when he drinks a potion that turns him into the evil Mr. Hyde.

Plot Keywords:

Evil | Experiment | Potion | Mad Scientist | Remake

Premios:

Nominated for 3 Oscars.

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Best Horror Film of the 1940s

Reparto

Spencer Tracy	...	Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Hyde
Ingrid Bergman	...	Ivy Peterson
Lana Turner	...	Beatrix Emery
Donald Crisp	...	Sir Charles Emery
Ian Hunter	...	Dr. John Lanyon
Barton MacLane	...	Sam Higgins
C. Aubrey Smith	...	Bishop Manners
Peter Godfrey	...	Poole, Jekyll's Butler
Sara Allgood	...	Mrs. Higgins
Frederick Worlock	...	Dr. Heath (as Frederic Worlock)
William Tannen	...	Intern Fenwick
Frances Robinson	...	Marcia
Denis Green	...	Freddie
Billy Bevan	...	Mr. Weller
Forrester Harvey	...	Old Prouty

También conocida como:

El extraño caso del doctor Jekyll (Spain) [es]
El hombre y la bestia (Venezuela) [es]

Duración:

113 min | Germany:90 min | Germany:108 min (VHS version)

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Clasificación:

Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #7341)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Compañía:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Trivialidades:

The character of Ivy Peterson was taken not from Robert Louis Stevenson's original novella, but from the 1931 film version. Ivy never appears in the original story, nor, for that matter, does Jekyll's fiancée.

Errores:

Errores que Revelan: The church at the beginning of the film is clearly just a model.

Citas:

Dr. Henry Jekyll: [as Hyde] When you went to see the good doctor, before you left you said... I almost thought, well what did you think? Maybe that you saw a little bit of ME, Hyde in him?

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in "Home Improvement: Super Bowl Fever (#4.15)" (1995)

Banda de Sonido:

See Me Dance the Polka

Best Horror Film of the 1940s

MGM did a stellar job of producing a high quality Horror film, putting together director Victor Fleming (of "Gone with the Wind" fame) and stars Lana Turner, Ingrid Bergman, and Spencer Tracy. This film demonstrates that horror doesn't have to be campy, low-budget schtick. Like 2000's "The 6th Sense," 1941's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" actually respected the horror material enough to demonstrate the heights to which a major studio could take the genre.

The film takes us to darker places than we dare imagined existed at good ol' MGM, home of the happy-go-lucky family musical. We see the confident, handsome, Jeckyll dissolve into a cruel, crass, foul-minded Hyde with Tracy's masterful performance.

Bergman and Turner also turn in gritty, splendid performances with their less-than-life affirming characters. Rather than playing it for sci-fi thrills, this interpretation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel focuses more on Tracy's losing battle to tame the demon of Hyde. The result is a riveting parable on the banality of evil (all the more visceral in retrospect, given the film's release at the brink of World War II.)

The Film Snob, Lee Cushing