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    Blu-ray Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) -- in Blu-ray

    I was impressed as a teenager by Frederic March in Inherit the Wind, which was shown in one of my high school English classes. Now, more than forty years later, I've been impressed by the other side of March's long career with this movie. Very good make up, special effects, and performances. The...
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    Blu-ray Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) -- in Blu-ray

    What the footnoted document does say is: "....Metro put both in cold storage so as to avoid distraction while their 1941 adaptation made its rounds. I’d love to know if the 1931 Jekyll and Hyde played anywhere between 1940 and 1966. The only sighting I’m aware of was a partial one, as the 1953...
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    Blu-ray Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) -- in Blu-ray

    After reading the glowing reviews here I've pre-ordered this version, which I've never seen. The movie had a lavish production budget for the era of about half a million, and was a big hit. And then Paramount cleaned up again when MGM made the 1941 version: "When Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer remade the...
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