Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 Paramount film) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 Paramount film) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1920 horror silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released through Paramount/Artcraft. The film, which stars John Barrymore, is based on the 1886 novella "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson. John S. Robertson directed the production, and Clara Beranger wrote this adaptation's screenplay or “scenario”. The story, set in late Victorian London, portrays the tragic consequences of a doctor's experiments in separating the dual personalities he thinks defines all humans: one good, the other evil. The film is
Horror film Hand", "The Black Cat" (based on the Edgar Allan Poe short story), "The Suicide Club" (based on the Robert Louis Stevenson short story collection) and "Der Spuk" (which translates to "The Spectre" in English). The film is described as the "critical link between the more conventional German mystery and detective films of the mid 1910s and the groundbreaking fantastic cinema of the early 1920s." Robert Wiene's "Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari" ("The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari") (1920) became a worldwide success and had a lasting impact on the film world, particularly for horror. It was not so much the story