![]() ![]() I’d love to know if the 1931 Jekyll and Hyde played anywhere between 19. Metro put both in cold storage so as to avoid distraction while their 1941 adaptation made its rounds. Studio records indicate the latter figure to be the correct one. The Motion Picture Herald claimed it was $125,000. Variety said they paid $30,000 for both the 19 versions. That purchase took place on May 14, 1940. ![]() MGM would buy the negative outright when they decided to remake the property. Based on the description, theirs appears to have been the truncated 1935 version. Hyde in its 1940 catalogue, but none of those prints have thus far surfaced. Back Issue #18 of indispensable Video Watchdog magazine delineates the cuts. 85 minutes was left in the butchery’s wake. Hyde gelded for the sake of a Code Seal Paramount needed in order to re-issue it. Part of this is the exit music, unlikely to amount to this much footage, so what of the rest? Day of infamy Jfound Dr. There’s a little over two minutes between what they (presumably) saw then and what we have now. ![]() The official release date was Janu(explanation perhaps for an ongoing assumption it opened that year), but there were runs in Los Angeles and Chicago that began during the third week of December 1931, prior to the New York run which started on New Years Eve (that ad shown here). Past confusion over missing footage may not have taken this into account (there’s no exit music on the DVD, though I know at least two collectors who have it). This included exit music, which continued beyond the cast of characters following the end title. Footage count in 1931 amounted to 8,863 feet, or 98 and one-half minutes. But just when did we lose it? Now that Greg Mank has covered the background and production so thoroughly in his outstanding DVD commentary (and in an excellent book, Hollywood Cauldron ), there’s little left for the rest of us but to obsess over details, picayune questions that haunt one’s sleep at night.įirst, how long is it suppo sed to be? The DVD clocks at ninety-five minutes and fifty seconds. And what of the infamous Miriam Hopkins strip scene? Don’t know about you, but I want more. I suspect it was shot, but made it no further than sneak previews Paramount conducted in Gl endale, West Adams, and Westwood during mid- December. So did they shoot this? Did folks see it? A perhaps-embarrassed Rouben Mamoulian (here with cast and crew at an on-set birthday party) claimed the moment was limited to publicity. The trade ad showing it here dates from December 1931. Bryan Senn published a shot in his book, Golden Horrors. One turned up in Famous Monsters years ago. What of Hyde trampling that little kid? We’ve seen stills of it. Hyde, the question taunts me surely as those lingering effects from Fredric March’s potion - Is there more? Could there be more? Well, first of all, how much is enough? For most of us, nothing less than every moment exposed before that rolling camera will do. Bawdy to begin with, what ecstasies await the retrieval of even more intact prints, such as Library Of Congress staffers discovered when they stumbled across the censor-suppressed Baby Face a few years ago. Few send pulses racing like reclaimed pre-codes. Truant, uncut versions of shows we revere are all the more enticing. There’s nothing so tantalizing as films that go missing.
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