After a prologue where we see the original Doctor Jekyll dies from falling from his house that had been set ablaze by an angry mob. It is then revealed that Dr. Jekyll had left behind an orphan. John Utterson agrees to adopt the boy since he has no children of his own. Fast-forward about 30 years, Edward […]
Tag Archives: Robert Louis Stevenson
January
09
Saturday Night Drive In: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 )
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This weekend we go back in time to 1920 where the pioneers of cinema had to struggle with issues we could only have nightmares about in today’s time. Issues like expensive film, mixing sound, the right make up, and of course very little money. These pioneers of of the silver screen were able to create […]
October
22
The Bodysnatcher (1945 RKO Radio Pictures Film)
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Not to be confused with The Body Snatchers, this is a completely different movie based on Robert Louis Stevenson‘s short story of the same title, The Body Snatcher. The movie based on this Stevenson’s story was made in 1945 and would be the very last film in which film legends Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi […]
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