Horror Classic 26 of 50: DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
Today I'm going to do something a little different. This week I watched Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , a silent film from 1920 which stars John Barrymore (Drew's grandpa!) and is much more classic than most of the movies in my 50-film DVD set, even if it is a total rip-off of The Nutty Professor . By an incredible coincidence, this was also the week I purchased The Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2 , a fantastic DVD set which includes the 1955 Bugs Bunny cartoon Hyde and Hare , which is a slightly sillier take on the Robert Louis Stevenson book. So I'm going to compare the two to see how they... um, compare. Dr. Jekyll In the Barrymore movie, Dr. Jekyll is a selfless philanthropist who loves nothing more than taking care of sick poor people. You know the type -- he makes the rest of us feel guilty for spending our free time watching America's Got Talent instead of volunteering. He often wears a hat. In the Bugs Bunny cartoon, Dr. Jekyll is a timid little man (voic...