Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1931 horror film directed by Rouben Mamoulian. It is an adaptation of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Robert Louis Stevenson story of a man who takes a potion which turns him from a mild-mannered man of science into a crude homicidal maniac. The film, made prior to the full enforcement of the Hays code, is remembered today for its strong sexual content, embodied mostly in the character of the prostitute, Ivy, played by Miriam Hopkins. The overt sexuality was toned down for the next film version of the story in 1941. The secret of the astonishing transformation scenes wasn't revealed until decades later (Mamoulian himself revealed it in a volume of interviews with Hollywood directors published under the title The Celluloid Muse). A series of rotating filters matching the make-up was used on the lenses, enabling the make-up to be gradually exposed or made invisible, depending upon the scene.

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