Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Page #2

Synopsis: Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone. Experiments reveal his evil side, named Hyde. Experience teaches him how evil Hyde can be: he kills Ivy who earlier expressed interest in Jekyll and Sir Charles, Jekyll's fiancée's father.
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Director(s): Victor Fleming
Production: MGM
 
IMDB:
6.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
65%
PASSED
Year:
1941
113 min
611 Views


Actually, I got started on something

and lost track of time.

Oh, yes, Jekyll.

Heath was telling me that you're still

carrying on with that research work.

Dr. Heath isn't in sympathy,

Dr. Courtland.

That's understandable, isn't it?

After all, separating the facets

of the brain.

Rather ambitious, I should call that.

His research goes deeper than

the brain...

...into something more intangible

than the mind.

Then all that seems to be left is the soul.

All right, then, call it the soul.

The soul?

Come, come, my dear doctor.

Now you're invading my territory.

I suppose I am, but I know

that you wouldn't object...

...if science could be of help

to the church.

The church is always grateful

for any help, doctor.

Harry doesn't mean a word of this.

I'm afraid he's pulling our leg.

I should hope so. I was wondering

what Jekyll would do...

...if I asked him to elaborate.

- I don't mind elaborating.

If you didn't see that poor chap

in church this morning...

...you heard him, I'm sure.

Thank you for your assistance.

- Hopelessly insane, obviously.

- I don't think he was insane.

I think there was only one side of him

expressing itself.

- Good heavens, which side?

- His evil side.

The man was spiritually distorted

through shock.

That explosion in the gas main

last month.

Before that, he was a fine,

solid citizen...

...kind with his children,

deeply in love with his wife.

Since then, he had undergone

a complete change...

...until this afternoon I found him

completely reverted to the animal.

We can clearly understand a shock

to the nervous system...

...but how does that affect the soul?

I think he was shocked

from normal good into complete evil.

When I say he was a good man...

...I don't mean he hadn't had

a bad thought.

Or that he hadn't committed ordinary

transgressions against society.

But, after all, that's the problem

of civilized man's soul, isn't it?

That good and evil are constantly

fighting one another?

There's a higher source from which

good can find aid in its fight.

I realize that, but...

The colonel and I have always felt that

a person can be good if they wish to be.

- And, well, otherwise if they don't.

- Jekyll, I simply must get this straight.

Well, let me put it this way:

Good and evil are so close as to be

chained together in the soul.

Suppose we could break that chain,

separate those two selves...

...free the good in man, and let it go to

its higher destiny and segregate the bad.

But aren't you a bit presumptuous

in assuming that there's evil in all men?

But isn't that true? Wouldn't we be

hypocrites if we didn't admit that?

We've all had thoughts that we didn't

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John Lee Mahin

John Lee Mahin (August 23, 1902, Evanston, Illinois – April 18, 1984, Los Angeles) was an American screenwriter and producer of films who was active in Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1960s. He was known as the favorite writer of Clark Gable and Victor Fleming. In the words of one profile, he had "a flair for rousing adventure material, and at the same time he wrote some of the raciest and most sophisticated sexual comedies of that period." more…

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