In the lead role, Fredric March's transformation from Jekyll to Hyde is still startling and, frankly, terrifying. The superb makeup was certainly part of it, but March's skill was the finishing touch.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 30, 2022

A provocative pre-Code chiller.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 30, 2022

Mamoulian's pre-code film doesn't try to shy away from the more lurid elements of the story the way that Victor Fleming's remake does, and the result is something altogether more eerie and frightening.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 26, 2022

While the hairy beast that emerges can come off as old-fashioned camp, the lurid spectacle of shame and condemnation resonates uncomfortably with our own highly divided times.

| Jul 7, 2022

Made during that brief period when Hollywood sound films explored quite racy material... Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde quite explicitly links Jekyll's woes to sexual frustration.

| Nov 15, 2020

While thrills principally abound In the story it also contains comedy Interest and a most enchanting romance.

| Oct 7, 2020

It is morbid, and even unhealthy in theme, but it is suspensive and holds the spectator's interest to the very end.

| Oct 7, 2020

[Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde] is altogether a brilliant effort and should be added to your list of better screen entertainments.

| Oct 7, 2020

One seeks in vain for an adequate development in this film of the powerful psychology which must remain the essential motive of such a fantasy as Stevenson created. A mere succession of incidents does not furnish this study.

| Oct 7, 2020

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a pleasantly unpleasant picture.

| Oct 7, 2020

While not unduly terrifying, which may be set down as a point in its favor, this talker version of the famous dual personality character is sufficiently dramatic and gripping to satisfy any demand for shocker entertainment.

| Oct 7, 2020

[Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde] enjoyed success in novel form and as a stage play, and was produced on the silent screen some years ago. The greater scope offered by the talking film adds to the dramatic value of the picture.

| Oct 7, 2020

The onlooker, instead of being filled with righteous horror and indignation, begins to find so much super invention and thoroughness irresistibly comic.

| Oct 7, 2020

Fredric March's work is splendid and Miriam Hopkins shares the honors.

| Oct 7, 2020

Fredric March, ably assisted by Miriam Hopkins and Rose Hobart, is magnificent as Hyde, and he gives Jekyll a stilted Victorian elegance which, being a little false, makes Hyde's existence seem more credible.

| Oct 7, 2020

Fredric March gives an outstanding performance.

| Oct 7, 2020

The movie is excellent, certainly the best sound version of the classic story.

| Dec 16, 2019

The horrible figure of the man with two personalities has given [Fredric] March an opportunity to shine. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Sep 11, 2019

This most enduring adaptation of the Faustian moral fable is totally satisfying.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 6, 2013

Fredric March received his first Best Actor Oscar for playing the titular roles in Mamoulian's moody and haunting version of Stevenson's novella.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 4, 2013