VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Megamind To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

He_who_lurks This is the third of 3 silent era versions of this movie I'm seeing--not counting "Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride" of course. The other two films, made in 1912 and 1913 were both relatively short, but this film directed by John S. Robertson runs at an hour and twenty two minutes, which in my opinion is a little too long. Some parts of this movie aren't really necessary--I'm not really sure what Miss Gina had to do with the rest of the action and other parts with Mr. Hyde seemed like padding. Then again, I suppose they overdid it a bit just to show off Hyde's physical appearance. As in the other versions, Jekyll here has a girlfriend. Only--and this is interesting--she is the daughter of Sir George Carew, the man who Jekyll later murders as Hyde. He is portrayed as a bad influence to Jekyll and a temptation. In the end, Jekyll can't resist and follows Carew. As a result, he turns into Hyde--and this Hyde here looks amazing, with straight black hair, long nails and fingers, and a lump on his head. The appearance of him is in fact very good and it does seem as though John Barrymore--the actor who played both Jekyll and Hyde--was two different people. Hyde starts then causing trouble and weakening Jekyll's ability to control him, and disastrous results occur.Mostly, the movie is very slow-moving and has some unnecessary parts--what Hyde had to do with two random ladies in a bar is beyond me. However, this is not to say there aren't some good moments: having Jekyll transform into Hyde in front of Carew before murdering him is a nice addition. The ending, also very interesting--Jekyll's girlfriend never actually knows the whole truth. It clearly strays from the novella quite a bit--but then, it improves the story too. Hyde is well portrayed and is probably the better version of all 3 of them.Padded certainly, but otherwise a good movie. Just watch the 49 minute version instead, if you can.

roddekker *Please note* - This version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is, in fact, a silent-era picture. It is now nearly 100 years old. If you choose to judge this picture by today's "in-your-face" standards of total over-the-top horror & gore, then, to be sure, you are going to be mighty disappointed with what you see here.But if you have an appreciation for film history, and can value this film's story in its understated form, and can forgive it for all of its obvious flaws and faults, then, yes, this old relic will definitely be worth your while to watch.From my point of view - I was actually quite impressed with the creepy, eerie and sinister atmosphere that prevailed in this production. Now, I would certainly never say that this was a great film. But, with that aside - I'll bet you that, upon its initial release, back in 1920, it must have scared the socks off of many of the viewers in the audience.

Rainey Dawn Jekyll & Hyde 1920 really is a good silent horror film. I would not say all silent films are good just because they are the first moving pictures but this film is actually GOOD! John Barrymore really plays both roles well. Even in a silent film J. Barrymore manages to show two completely different personalities without one word being heard. It's in the acting ability and not in any spoken words. There are plenty of "talkie" films where one person plays two different personalities and it's not the words they use but their acting ability that can pull it off - like J. Barrymore did in this film.The movie is visually stimulating - the whole movie has an eerie look and feel to it as it should. I love the costuming and sets in this film very creepy! Jekyll & Hyde is a great story to begin with and this film does the story justice! I highly recommend this movie to film buffs and for those that love a good classic horror film.8.5/10

Robert J. Maxwell Robert Louis Stevenson's story is familiar to most of us. Dr. Jekyll is an altruistic doctor, maintaining a clinic for the poor at his own expense, "the Saint Anthony" of London, a paragon of probity and a pillar of the community. But he's doing some research on drugs that his more conservative friends believe to be dangerous.They point out to Jekyll that every man has dual sides, a buried nature that is bad, even Jekyll himself, and, well, in short, it's not nice to fool around with Mother Nature. The Greeks would have agreed and called it hubris. To demonstrate the animal instincts in Jekyll, his friends take him to a louche dance hall where the seductive Nita Naldi is doing her number on the stage. Jekyll goggles at her and undergoes what he might have called a parasympathetic reflex.Back in his home laboratory, he develops a drug that turns him for a few minutes into an evil-looking creep with long hair, a skull shaped like an ancient Peruvian Indian's, and a face that is going through spasms of theatrical torture, before another dose of the drug returns him to normal. Actually, he kind of liked how it felt to be evil. It's fun to be naughty. So he begins using the identity of Mr. Hyde regularly, hiring a shabby room, consorting with low lifes, and generally embarking on what the titles call "a sea of license" and the less literate of today would call "the hedonistic treadmill." I don't think I want to get into the plot too much further. Let's just say that any man who stomps a child in the street and bashes in the head of his future father-in-law can't be all bad.Stevenson's book was published in 1886 in Victorian England. I don't think the story would have had quite the same impact in any other period. It was such a priggish time. Lamb chops acquired little paper panties, furniture legs were draped with tiny skirts, and roast fowl had "white meat" and "dark meat" instead of b*****s and l**s. Nobody was supposed to have a Mister Hyde buried inside him. Oscar Wilde's "The Portrait of Dorian Gray" was published in 1890 and gave the public a glimpse of another Mr. Hyde. Sigmund Freud didn't invent the unconscious but he was about to popularize it and examine it in detail. He called all those buried animal impulses "das Es" -- "the id." There's a moral lesson here. Before you try your experimental drug on yourself, try it on mice first.