Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)






During a church service, Sam Higgins becomes mentally agitated and screams at the minister. Dr. Jekyll sends him to a local hospital and requests permission to test his unusual theory, but he is denied. Dr. Jekyll's fiancée, Beatrix, seems unperturbed by his ideas, but her father, Sir Charles Emery, insists that they do not see each other for a while.

Dr. Jekyll strongly believes that there are separate good and evil aspects in every person. He expresses these ideas at a dinner and further angers Sir Charles, who decides to take his daughter out of the country to get her away from Dr. Jekyll.

Returning home from the dinner, Dr. Jekyll saves Ivy Peterson from an attacker and accompanies her to her humble lodgings, where she makes advances towards him. Later, at home, Dr. Jekyll conducts an experiment and discovers his evil self, which he calls Mr. Hyde. Later, as Mr. Hyde, he kills Ivy. When Beatrix and Sir Charles return, Jekyll tries to explain his predicament. He becomes Mr. Hyde again, kills Sir Charles, and in the struggle with the police, is mortally wounded. As he is dying, he becomes Dr. Jekyll once more, and realizes that death is the only way to destroy the evil Mr. Hyde.



Vintage magazines

Mon Film 1 1946

Film programs

Filmpost nr. 329

Books with substantial mentioning of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Lou Valentino
The Films of Lana Turner
Secaucus, New Jersey, 1976

Lawrence J. Quirk
The Films of Ingrid Bergman
Secaucus, NJ, 1970

Donald Descher
The Films of Spencer Tracy
New York, 1968