Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Like so many other performers of this period, it was standard practice for the actors to apply their own make-up.

William Sorelle as Utterson, the attorney.

The doctor swears that he will abandon his experiments and never tempt fate again but that night, without taking the drug, he turns spontaneously into Hyde. Inside, Hyde takes a potion that transforms him back to Jekyll. Utterson sees Hyde entering Jekyll’s house. During this passage of events, a worried Dr. Hyde reluctantly leads one man back to Jekyll’s house and gives him money. Outraged witnesses corner Hyde and force him to agree to compensate the boy. From these rooms, he begins a career of evil, until one night he attacks and injures a crippled child. Hyde then slips out into the night, terrorizing the patrons of a nearby tavern before finding himself lodgings. The strange creature emerges from Jekyll’s room, bearing a note in Jekyll’s handwriting that orders the household staff to treat the stranger – “Mr Hyde” – as himself. His body convulses, and he transforms into a hunched, twisted figure. That night, however, Jekyll undertakes a dangerous experiment, swallowing a drug intended to releases his evil self.

Alice and her father also visit Jekyll’s rooms, but although apologetic, the doctor insists on devoting his time to his patients.

Lanyon (Howard Crampton) and Utterson (William Sorrel), a lawyer, ridicule him for what they consider his dangerous research. Snyder) to say that instead of accompanying them to the opera, he must give more time to his charity patients.

Henry Jekyll (King Baggot) sends a note to his fiancée, Alice (Jane Gail), and her father (Matt B. The film was re-released in the United States in August 1927. Directed by Herbert Brenon for producer Carl Laemmle's company IMP (which he later changed to Universal Pictures), the production stars King Baggot in the dual role of Jekyll and Hyde. Hyde is a 1913 horror film based on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 gothic novella Strange Case of Dr.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson