Robert Louis Stevenson’s literary horror classic Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published in 1886, just a decade before the birth of cinema and only two decades prior to its first screen adaptation (William N. Selig’s now lost Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde). Since then a lengthy list of cinematic interpretations have come to fruition, from the 1931 film directed by Rouben Mamoulian which earned Fredric March an Oscar for his performance in the starring role, to the 1941 remake that boasted of names like Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner, through a TV movie featuring Mickey Rooney in his very last screen performance. Despite the lengthy list, there is certainly no adaptation quite like Walerian Borowczyk’s hyper sexualized The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne.
By 1981, the year of the film’s release, Borowczyk had (somewhat unwillingly) been pegged as an art house...
By 1981, the year of the film’s release, Borowczyk had (somewhat unwillingly) been pegged as an art house...
- 5/12/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
The fine folks at Filmmaker Iq are at it again. Our own Erik Davis spotted this history-of-the-movie-trailer video “lesson” that takes viewers through the evolution of the coming attractions in cinema. Starting in 1913, which the website calls “year zero” for the movie trailer,” we learn that an ad manager created a promotional short for the Broadway play Pleasure Seekers. It featured actual footage from the performance and was a hit with audiences. Eventually a gentleman by the name of William Nicholas Selig banked on the popularity of print serials that were featured in the local newspapers. Taking these pulpy stories, he adapted them into a film version — like The Adventures of Kathlyn. The story would continue week to week, each...
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- 3/24/2014
- by Alison Nastasi
- Movies.com
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