<P> Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1920 horror silent film, produced by Famous Players - Lasky and released through Paramount / Artcraft . The film is based upon Robert Louis Stevenson's novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and starring actor John Barrymore . </P> <P> The film was directed by John S. Robertson and co-starred Nita Naldi . The scenario was by Clara Beranger and the film is now in the public domain . </P> <P> Dr. Jekyll, a kind and charitable man, believes that everyone has two sides, one good and one evil, otherwise considered a split personality . Using a potion that he concocted, Dr. Jekyll becomes Mr. Hyde, creating havoc throughout his town . </P> <P> Henry Jekyll (John Barrymore) is a doctor of medicine, an idealist, and philanthropist . When he is not treating the poor in his free clinic, he is in his laboratory experimenting . Sir George Carew (Brandon Hurst), the father of his fiancée, Millicent (Martha Mansfield), is "piqued" by Dr. Jekyll . "No man could be as good as he looks," Carew says . Following dinner one night, Carew taunts Dr. Jekyll in front of their friends, Edward Enfield (Cecil Clovelly), Dr. Lanyon (Charles Lane) and Utterson (J. Malcolm Dunn) proclaiming "In devoting yourself to others, Jekyll, aren't you neglecting the development of your own life?" "Isn't it by serving others that one develops oneself?" Jekyll replies . "Which self?" Carew retorts . "Man has two - as he has two hands . Because I use my right hand, should I never use my left? Your really strong man fears nothing . It is the weak one who is afraid of experience . A man cannot destroy the savage in him by denying its impulses . The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it . With your youth, you should live - as I have lived . I have memories . What will you have at my age?" </P>

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