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Director:
F.W. Murnau
Writers:
Hans Janowitz (screenplay)
Robert Louis Stevenson (novel)
Genre:
Horror more
Plot:
In this uncredited and apparently lost version of Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
Murnau's Second film is among the LOST: Synopsis follows. more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Conrad Veidt ... Dr. Warren / Mr. O'Connor
Magnus Stifter ... Dr. Warren's friend
Margarete Schlegel ... Grace / Jane
Willy Kaiser-Heyl

Bela Lugosi ... Dr. Warren's Butler
Margarete Kupfer
Danny Guertler
Gustav Botz
Jaro Fürth
Hans Lanser-Rudolf
Marga Reuter
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Lanja Rudolph
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Der Januskopf - Eine Tragödie am Rande der Wirklichkeit (Germany)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (UK)
Love's Mockery
Schrecken (Germany) (trailer title)
The Head of Janus
The Janus Head
The Two-Faced Man (USA) (informal literal English title)
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Runtime:
107 min | Germany:77 min (lost)
Country:
Germany
Language:
German
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Silent
Company:
Lipow-Film more

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Trivia:
This film is considered lost. more
Movie Connections:
Version of Jekyll (2007) more

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20 out of 23 people found the following comment useful:-
Murnau's Second film is among the LOST: Synopsis follows., 13 September 2001

This is an adaptation of Stevenson's DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE. Dr. Warren, a rich London doctor, can change himself into the dreadful Mr. O'Connor. It is supposed that as with NOSFERATU, Murnau did not bother to secure film rights from the Stevenson estate and thus changed the names. Contemporary reviews mainly praise Conrad Veidt's performance in the dual lead.

This is among the LOST films - no negative or positive materials are known to exist.

Above gleaned from Lotte Eisner's biography on Murnau.

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