{ "id": "ep50s4ymzm", "slug": "dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-1920-film", "title": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 film)", "updated": "2026-11-01", "topic_path": [ { "id": "culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture" }, { "id": "culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films", "label": "Films and standalone screen works", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works", "label": "Individual films by title and year", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.early-silent", "label": "Early and silent cinema", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.early-silent" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.early-silent.silent-genre-features", "label": "Silent genre and exploitation features", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.early-silent.silent-genre-features" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.us.t1800.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.early-silent.silent-genre-features", "label": "United States · 1800 to 1945: Silent genre and exploitation features", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t1800.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.early-silent.silent-genre-features", "path": [ { "id": "geo.us", "label": "United States", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us" }, { "id": "geo.us.t1800", "label": "United States · 1800 to 1945", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t1800" }, { "id": "geo.us.t1800.culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t1800.culture" }, { "id": "geo.us.t1800.culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t1800.culture.performance" }, { "id": "geo.us.t1800.culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t1800.culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "geo.us.t1800.culture.performance.screen.films", "label": "Films and standalone screen works", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t1800.culture.performance.screen.films" }, { "id": "geo.us.t1800.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works", "label": "Individual films by title and year", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t1800.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works" }, { "id": "geo.us.t1800.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.early-silent", "label": "Early and silent cinema", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t1800.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.early-silent" }, { "id": "geo.us.t1800.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.early-silent.silent-genre-features", "label": "Silent genre and exploitation features", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t1800.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.early-silent.silent-genre-features" } ] } ], "excerpt": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) is a silent Paramount-Artcraft horror-drama directed by John S. Robertson, starring John Barrymore as both Jekyll and Hyde, famed for his makeup-free transformation; a rival Sheldon Lewis version and Murnau's Der Januskopf appeared the same year.", "snippet": "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) is a silent Paramount-Artcraft horror-drama directed by John S. Robertson, starring John Barrymore as both Jekyll and Hyde, famed for his makeup-free transformation; a rival Sheldon Lewis version and Murnau's Der Januskopf appeared the same year.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.early-silent.silent-genre-features", "markdown": "# Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 film)\n\n*Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde* is a 1920 American silent horror-drama film directed by John S. Robertson, starring [John Barrymore](https://www.edgepedia.org/john-barrymore) in the double role of Dr. Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde, and based on [Robert Louis Stevenson](https://www.edgepedia.org/robert-louis-stevenson)'s 1886 novella *The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde*. It was produced by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation and distributed as a Paramount-Artcraft Picture, with a scenario by Clara S. Beranger.[1](https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/18019) The film premiered in New York on 28 March 1920, was released in April 1920, and runs 79 minutes on 6,355 feet of film.[1](https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/18019) • [2](https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/D/DoctorJekyllAndMiste1920-1.html) Barrymore's performance, particularly his transformation from Jekyll to Hyde without makeup, made the film a landmark of silent-era screen acting.[3](https://www.tcm.com/articles/82853/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-1920)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Director / scenario | John S. Robertson; scenario by Clara S. Beranger, from Stevenson's 1886 novella[1](https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/18019) |\n| Production / distribution | Famous Players-Lasky Corp., presented by Adolph Zukor, a Paramount-Artcraft Picture; shot at Paramount's Astoria studios on Long Island[1](https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/18019) • [2](https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/D/DoctorJekyllAndMiste1920-1.html) |\n| Release | New York premiere 28 March 1920; general release April 1920; copyright 18 March 1920 (LP14921)[1](https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/18019) |\n| Physical properties | Silent, black and white, six reels, 6,355 feet, about 79 minutes, color-toned[1](https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/18019) • [2](https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/D/DoctorJekyllAndMiste1920-1.html) |\n| Principal cast | John Barrymore (Dr. Henry Jekyll/Edward Hyde), Martha Mansfield (Millicent Carew), Brandon Hurst (Sir George Carew), Charles Lane (Dr. Richard Lanyon), Nita Naldi (Gina)[1](https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/18019) |\n| Signature scene | The first Jekyll-to-Hyde transformation, performed without makeup, camera trickery or cutting, in a continuous sequence of about 1,000 feet of film[3](https://www.tcm.com/articles/82853/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-1920) |\n| Survival | Prints exist in the George Eastman Museum and the Museum of Modern Art film archives, plus an 8mm reduction positive[2](https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/D/DoctorJekyllAndMiste1920-1.html) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Plot\n\nLondon, in the fog of the late [Victorian era](https://www.edgepedia.org/victorian-era). The film opens on Dr. Henry Jekyll (John Barrymore), a handsome, admired physician whose friends drag him to a music hall, where a dancer (Nita Naldi) performs and the good doctor watches a little too intently. He is not an innocent about to be corrupted by science. He is a man whose appetites are straining at the leash and looking for an excuse.\n\nThe excuse arrives at a dinner party. Jekyll is engaged to Millicent Carew (Martha [Mansfield](https://www.edgepedia.org/mansfield)), and her father, Sir George Carew (Brandon Hurst), delivers the lecture: a man must give full rein to his moods, must know both sides of life, before he can be wholly good. Jekyll takes this literally, as both a personal license and a scientific hypothesis. In his laboratory he brews a potion and drinks it, and in the film's most famous few minutes, the transformation happens on camera in an uninterrupted take: Barrymore contorts his own face muscle by muscle, with makeup applied surreptitiously during the scene, until the ascetic doctor has become something verminous, hunched, and apelike, with stringy hair and a spider-limbed walk.\n\nAs Mr. Hyde, Jekyll gets the other side of life. He haunts the music halls and the opium dens of Soho, installs himself in a room kept for the purpose, and pursues pleasures Jekyll could never publicly touch. The bargain is that Jekyll controls it: he drinks the antidote, wakes respectable, goes to church, and smiles at Millicent. The film cycles this rhythm, suppress and release, repent and relapse, and each round trip costs him a little more control.\n\nHyde's cruelties accumulate. He victimizes the music-hall girl, and the film punishes his vice with the blunt moral machinery of its era. Then the transformations begin to come without the potion. Hyde surfaces in Jekyll's own home, at hours Jekyll did not choose, in front of people Jekyll loves.\n\n**The film's signature image comes when Jekyll falls asleep in his laboratory and a huge, ghostlike spider crawls up over his blankets, an apparition of Hyde in arachnid form, and dissolves into his body; he wakes as Hyde.** It is a dream-image pure and simple, staged with double exposure, and it says what the whole movie has been building toward: the monster is no longer something Jekyll becomes, it is something that lives in him and comes out on its own. The spider scene has kept the film alive for a century precisely because it is the one moment silent cinema found a picture for the idea of a self turning on itself[13](https://www.classic-monsters.com/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-paramount-1920/) • [14](https://moviessilently.com/2013/05/18/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-1920-a-silent-film-review/).\n\nFrom there the endgame is a single continuous crisis. Hyde, cornered by his own degenerating control, murders Sir George Carew, the man whose lecture started it all, an escalation of Hyde's existing cruelty rather than a plot convenience[15](https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/18019). Jekyll, now transforming involuntarily, barricades himself in the laboratory as pursuers close in. The door gives way just as the reversion comes on unbidden, and Millicent finds not the monster but her fiancé, dying, the poison already working. The two men share one body and cannot be separated even at the moment of death, which is the ending Stevenson wrote and the film stages as pure melodrama.\n\n### Characters\n\n**Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Hyde (John Barrymore)** is the whole show. As Jekyll he plays a thin, ascetic elegance; as Hyde he needs almost no makeup, just a contorted brow, messed hair, and a body language that makes him move like something that climbed out of a drain. The first transformation was performed live, with makeup applied surreptitiously during the convulsions and only finger extensions added afterward; later transformations used dissolves and progressive makeup[16](http://www.1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsa-d/drjekyllandmrhydebarrymore.htm) • [17](https://bureau42.com/view/1915/movie-review-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-1920).\n\n**Millicent Carew (Martha Mansfield)** is the virtuous fiancée, played with a quiet gravity that keeps the romance from being wallpaper, and her terror in the final stretch is played completely straight.\n\n**Sir George Carew (Brandon Hurst)** is his fiancée's father, whose philosophy of knowing both sides of life gives Jekyll his license, and whose murder is the film's point of no return.\n\n**Gina, the music-hall dancer (Nita Naldi)** is the temptation figure of the prologue, the exoticized face of the appetites Hyde will pursue.\n\n### Interpretations and controversies\n\nThe film's moral frame is dated: it punishes vice more readily than it examines it, and it treats the working-class woman Hyde victimizes far more perfunctorily than Stevenson's novella did. But modern retellings also credit it with two innovations the genre kept. It was the first Jekyll and Hyde film to introduce the music-hall girl as a dark counterpart to the virtuous fiancée, an element later remakes adopted, and by cutting twenty years off Jekyll's age it made youthful inexperience a factor in unleashing Hyde, which later versions ran with[16](http://www.1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsa-d/drjekyllandmrhydebarrymore.htm). It also leans harder than most adaptations into addiction, with Hyde's Soho opium dens reading as a portrait of drug abuse[18](https://blogs.iu.edu/establishingshot/2020/10/19/approaching-adaptation-jekyll-hyde-on-screen/).\n\n### Sequels, prequels, and universe\n\n1920 alone produced three Jekyll and Hyde films: this one, a version starring Sheldon Lewis, and F.W. Murnau's German *Der Januskopf* with [Conrad Veidt](https://www.edgepedia.org/conrad-veidt). Robertson's is the only one of the three that still exists[19](https://moriareviews.com/horror/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-1920.htm).\n\n## Production\n\nThe film was made at Paramount's Astoria studios on [Long Island](https://www.edgepedia.org/long-island), New York, with cinematography by Roy Overbaugh, art direction by Robert M. Haas (architecture) and Charles O. Seessel (decorations), and an assistant director, Shaw Lovett.[1](https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/18019) • [2](https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/D/DoctorJekyllAndMiste1920-1.html) [Adolph Zukor](https://www.edgepedia.org/adolph-zukor) presented the picture.[2](https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/D/DoctorJekyllAndMiste1920-1.html)\n\n**Barrymore's workload.** During production Barrymore was performing Shakespeare's *Richard III* onstage at night while filming at the Famous Players studio during the day, was learning his next role as Hamlet, and was involved in a tempestuous romance with the poet Michael Strange (Blanche Oelrichs), whom he married in 1920. The strain produced a physical and nervous collapse.[3](https://www.tcm.com/articles/82853/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-1920) The LA Phil program notes likewise report that the experience, compounded by playing Richard III simultaneously, led to a nervous breakdown.[4](https://www.laphil.com/works/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-1920)\n\n## Cast and characters\n\nBarrymore played both title roles. Martha Mansfield was Millicent Carew, a character invented for the film; Brandon Hurst played her father, Sir George Carew; Charles Lane played Dr. Richard Lanyon; J. Malcolm Dunn played John Utterson; and Nita Naldi played Gina, an Italian singer at a music hall.[1](https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/18019) • [4](https://www.laphil.com/works/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-1920) The supporting cast included [George Stevens](https://www.edgepedia.org/george-stevens) as Poole, Jekyll's butler, Louis Wolheim as the music hall owner, and Julia Hurley as Hyde's landlady.[2](https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/D/DoctorJekyllAndMiste1920-1.html)\n\nThe composer [Edgard Varèse](https://www.edgepedia.org/edgard-varese) appears in the film playing not one but two small roles, including a policeman.[4](https://www.laphil.com/works/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-1920) For the New York premiere, Hugo Reisenfeld, an Austrian violinist who became one of New York's eminent silent-film conductors, prepared accompaniment music for the house orchestra, taking the overture from Verdi's *La forza del destino* and compiling the score from other classical sources.[4](https://www.laphil.com/works/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-1920)\n\n## Adaptation of the source\n\nThe film opens with an introductory title card: \"In each of us, two natures are at war—the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose—what we want most to be, we are.\"[1](https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/18019) Lead characters are introduced on title cards, for example \"John Barrymore as Henry Jekyll, idealist and philanthropist—by profession, a doctor of medicine.\"\n\nBeranger's screenplay took liberties with Stevenson's tale, inventing Millicent from whole cloth.[4](https://www.laphil.com/works/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-1920) In the plot, Jekyll is inspired to create his potion after watching Nita Naldi's character dance at a music hall; an inter-title informs viewers that \"For the first time in his life, Jekyll had wakened to a sense of his baser nature.\"[5](https://repository.mdx.ac.uk/download/cbff2aa97b253c54a1c48cd2ce277e6b628b2a13d97df986fbc6d5e769561ab0/260938/Cottis-2023-Dr_Jekyll_and_Mr_Hyde_AcceptedManuscript.pdf) The film drew on the Sullivan stage tradition as well as Stevenson's novella: Thomas Russell Sullivan's 1887 play, which opened at the Boston Museum on 9 May 1887 with Richard Mansfield playing both roles, was the first adaptation to theatrically dramatize the novella, and the invented daughter figure in the film descends from the love interest Sullivan added.[6](https://astorlibrary.com/books/jekyll-and-hyde/) • [7](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/17709-DR.-JEKYLL-AND-MR.-HYDE) TCM's Roger Fristoe notes that this adaptation established the convention, followed in most versions since, of having Hyde interact with a \"good\" and a \"bad\" leading lady.[3](https://www.tcm.com/articles/82853/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-1920)\n\n## Barrymore's transformation\n\nThe film's most celebrated sequence is the initial transition from the refined Jekyll to the hideous Hyde. Barrymore accomplishes it with no special makeup, camera trickery or cutting: in a continuous sequence taking up one thousand feet of film, he turns away from the camera with his hands hiding his face, then turns back to reveal grotesquely distorted features. In later sequences makeup aids the transformation into a figure with a pointed head and fangs, and Barrymore uses his hands, which he considered ugly and \"blunt,\" as claws, wearing sleeves that rise above his wrists.[3](https://www.tcm.com/articles/82853/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-1920)\n\nThe performance created a sensation. Variety wrote in April 1920, \"There seems to be no end to Mr. Barrymore's capabilities. One could easily stamp him the most sterling actor of today.\"[4](https://www.laphil.com/works/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-1920) The New York Times called the double-edged performance \"one of pure motion-picture pantomime on as high a level as has ever been attained by anyone.\"[3](https://www.tcm.com/articles/82853/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-1920) Barrymore biographer Margot Peters described the performance as \"a revelation,\" the first real evidence that \"a great stage actor could transfer that talent to the screen and be appreciated by a public who had never entered a theater in its life.\"[3](https://www.tcm.com/articles/82853/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-1920)\n\n## The rival 1920 version\n\nBarrymore's film was one of two silent treatments of the Stevenson story released in the United States in 1920. Pioneer Film Corporation, an independent maker of \"state rights\" films, rushed its own *Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde* onto the market to compete with Paramount-Artcraft's more lavish, long-awaited production.[8](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/17709-DR-JEKYLLANDMRHYDE?cp=1&pos=3&sid=1a8f5847-ec3a-4824-9412-e988c7a3780a&sr=0.13667072) [The Pioneer](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-pioneer) version, directed and written by J. Charles Haydon (credited as Charles J. Hayden) and produced by Louis Meyer, starred Sheldon Lewis, who had already played the lead roles on stage and based his performances on those of Richard Mansfield.[8](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/17709-DR-JEKYLLANDMRHYDE?cp=1&pos=3&sid=1a8f5847-ec3a-4824-9412-e988c7a3780a&sr=0.13667072) It was set in a U.S. city rather than London and, as the 1 May 1920 *Exhibitors Herald* remarked, differed from the Paramount version in having a happy ending, in which Hyde's arrest and execution turn out to be a dream.[8](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/17709-DR-JEKYLLANDMRHYDE?cp=1&pos=3&sid=1a8f5847-ec3a-4824-9412-e988c7a3780a&sr=0.13667072) • [9](https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/17709) The competition inconvenienced Paramount: a 29 May 1920 *Moving Picture World* item from [Cleveland](https://www.edgepedia.org/cleveland) reported a \"merry war\" in which the Sheldon Lewis film was booked across town while the Barrymore version ran at the Euclid Theatre.[8](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/17709-DR-JEKYLLANDMRHYDE?cp=1&pos=3&sid=1a8f5847-ec3a-4824-9412-e988c7a3780a&sr=0.13667072) TCM characterizes the Lewis film as a poorly received vehicle set in contemporary New York rather than 19th-century London.[3](https://www.tcm.com/articles/82853/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-1920)\n\nA third 1920 adaptation competed internationally: the German film *Der Januskopf*, starring Conrad Veidt and directed by [F. W. Murnau](https://www.edgepedia.org/f-w-murnau).[8](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/17709-DR-JEKYLLANDMRHYDE?cp=1&pos=3&sid=1a8f5847-ec3a-4824-9412-e988c7a3780a&sr=0.13667072)\n\n## Place in the Jekyll and Hyde tradition\n\nThe novella had been filmed before, beginning with a 1908 Selig Pictures one- or two-reel drama and a 1912 two-reel version starring James Cruze, but the Barrymore film became the reference point of the silent tradition.[8](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/17709-DR-JEKYLLANDMRHYDE?cp=1&pos=3&sid=1a8f5847-ec3a-4824-9412-e988c7a3780a&sr=0.13667072) Paramount remade the story in 1932 (per AFI's dating) starring [Fredric March](https://www.edgepedia.org/fredric-march) and directed by Rouben Mamoulian, and [Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer](https://www.edgepedia.org/metro-goldwyn-mayer) produced its own version in 1941, starring [Spencer Tracy](https://www.edgepedia.org/spencer-tracy) and directed by Victor Fleming.[8](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/17709-DR-JEKYLLANDMRHYDE?cp=1&pos=3&sid=1a8f5847-ec3a-4824-9412-e988c7a3780a&sr=0.13667072) The Sala46 licensing catalog credits the Robertson film with defining the cinematic \"split personality\" trope and showing that horror could carry prestigious, star-driven drama.[10](https://www.sala46films.com/catalogue/dr.-jekyll-and-mr.-hyde/1920)\n\nThe film remains in circulation. Prints survive at the George Eastman Museum and the Museum of Modern Art,[2](https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/D/DoctorJekyllAndMiste1920-1.html) it is in the public domain in the United States and freely viewable on the Internet Archive,[11](https://archivewatch.org/item/drjekyllmrhyde1920/) and it was released on a John Barrymore DVD collection in 2009.[12](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/18019-DR-JEKYLL-AND-MR-HYDE?cxt=filmography)\n\n## References\n\n1. [Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), AFI Catalog of Feature Films](https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/18019)\n2. [Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), Progressive Silent Film List, Silent Era](https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/D/DoctorJekyllAndMiste1920-1.html)\n3. [Roger Fristoe, \"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920),\" Turner Classic Movies](https://www.tcm.com/articles/82853/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-1920)\n4. [\"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920),\" LA Phil program notes](https://www.laphil.com/works/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-1920)\n5. [Cottis, \"Dr Jekyll and/or Mr Hyde: The two versions of David Edgar's stage adaptation\" (accepted manuscript)](https://repository.mdx.ac.uk/download/cbff2aa97b253c54a1c48cd2ce277e6b628b2a13d97df986fbc6d5e769561ab0/260938/Cottis-2023-Dr_Jekyll_and_Mr_Hyde_AcceptedManuscript.pdf)\n6. [\"Jekyll and Hyde: Text, Context and Adaptations,\" Astor Library](https://astorlibrary.com/books/jekyll-and-hyde/)\n7. [AFI|Catalog](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/17709-DR.-JEKYLL-AND-MR.-HYDE)\n8. [Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920, Pioneer version), AFI Catalog of Feature Films](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/17709-DR-JEKYLLANDMRHYDE?cp=1&pos=3&sid=1a8f5847-ec3a-4824-9412-e988c7a3780a&sr=0.13667072)\n9. [Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920, Pioneer version), synopsis, AFI Catalog](https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/17709)\n10. [Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), Sala46 Films catalog](https://www.sala46films.com/catalogue/dr.-jekyll-and-mr.-hyde/1920)\n11. [Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (1920), Archive Watch](https://archivewatch.org/item/drjekyllmrhyde1920/)\n12. [Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), AFI Catalog entry with DVD release note](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/18019-DR-JEKYLL-AND-MR-HYDE?cxt=filmography)\n13. [https://www.classic-monsters.com/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-paramount-1920/](https://www.classic-monsters.com/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-paramount-1920/)\n14. [https://moviessilently.com/2013/05/18/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-1920-a-silent-film-review/](https://moviessilently.com/2013/05/18/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-1920-a-silent-film-review/)\n15. [https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/18019](https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/18019)\n16. [http://www.1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsa-d/drjekyllandmrhydebarrymore.htm](http://www.1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsa-d/drjekyllandmrhydebarrymore.htm)\n17. [https://bureau42.com/view/1915/movie-review-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-1920](https://bureau42.com/view/1915/movie-review-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-1920)\n18. [https://blogs.iu.edu/establishingshot/2020/10/19/approaching-adaptation-jekyll-hyde-on-screen/](https://blogs.iu.edu/establishingshot/2020/10/19/approaching-adaptation-jekyll-hyde-on-screen/)\n19. 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