For the other film versions see disambiguation.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (
1931) is a
horror film directed by
Rouben Mamoulian and starring
Fredric March. The film is an adaptation of
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), the
Robert Louis Stevenson tale of a man who takes a potion which turns him from a mild-mannered man of science into a crude
homicidal maniac.
Plot
The film tells of Dr. Jekyll (
Fredric March), a kind doctor who experiments with drugs because he's certain that within each man lurks impulses for both good and evil.
Dr. Jekyll develops a drug to release the evil side in himself, becoming the hard drinking, woman-chasing Mr. Hyde. Jekyll quickly becomes addicted to the formula, and unable to control the violent and unstable Mr. Hyde.
