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  1. A look at how the 1920 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde reshaped Stevenson through Wildean decadence, silent-era psychology, and a touch of early cinematic chaos. A century later, its strange DNA still echoes through every misbehaving Victorian monster on screen.
    #JekyllAndHyde #SilentFilm #FilmHistory #LiteraryAdaptation #ClassicCinema #JohnBarrymore #GothicFiction #DorianGray #CinemaStudies #VintageHorror
    pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2

  2. State’s Attorney is a 1932 melodrama. John Barrymore is a hotshot lawyer who defends gangsters and a likeable streetwalker with whom he falls in love. There’s plenty of pre-code content. An enjoyable mix of courtroom drama, humour and romance.

    My review: dfordoom-movieramblings.blogsp

    #classicmovie #classicmovies #30smovie #30smovies #1930smovie #1930smovies #goldenagehollywood #precode #precodehollywood #precodemovie #precodemovies #JohnBarrymore #HelenTwelvetrees

  3. “Twentieth Century” (1934) 2/4 - It’s got all the right elements, but the telling causes this #CaroleLombard and #JohnBarrymore prototype #screwball comedy to drag. The scenes with #Lombard and #Barrymore trying to out-theatre the other are insanely fun even if #Barrymore feels like he is more acting than ‘reacting’. From a writing standpoint, it’s interesting to stack against #Hecht, #MacArthur, and #Hawks’s better known film, “His Girlfriend Friday” (4/4), which never fails to dazzle.