Robert Louis StevensonFilmography

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Actors: Tony Todd, Tracy Scoggins, Vernon Wells, Deborah Shelton, Steve Wastell, Judi Shekoni

Synopsis: Genre specialist John Carl Buechler offers this savage twist on the classic Robert Louis Stevenson tale by tracing the dark journey of a brilliant doctor who is gradually transformed into a sinister, murderous creature. Dr. Jekyll (Tony Todd) has successfully cured a higher primate of a dire heart Read More

Kidnapped

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Actors: Iain Glen, James Anthony Pearson, Paul McGann, Adrian Dunbar, Gregor Fisher, Kirstin Coulter Smith

Synopsis: Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson's enduring 1886 adventure novel, receives its 11th film adaptation in this two-and-a-half-hour miniseries starring young British TV vet James Anthony Pearson as Davie Balfour, the naïve and hopeful 15-year-old, poised to receive a vast inheritance when he is lured Read More

Jekyll

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Actors: Matt Keeslar, Jonathan Silverman, Alanna Ubach, Siena Goines, Desmond Askew, John Rubenstein

Synopsis: Jonathan Silverman, Matt Keeslar, and Desmond Askew star in this modernized take on Robert Louis Stevenson's terrifying tale about a brilliant doctor haunted by his own murderous alter ego. Dr. Henry Jekyll was researching a cure for cancer when he created a computer generated avatar of his alter Read More

Treasure Planet

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Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brian Murray, David Hyde Pierce, Emma Thompson

Synopsis: Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of adventure Treasure Island gets a science fiction update in this animated feature from Walt Disney Pictures. Jim (voice of Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a young man who grew up reading tales of pirates and adventures on the high seas, and longs for similar Read More

The Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Rock 'N Roll Musical

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Actors: Alan Bernhoft, Terence Marinan, Lisa Peterson

Synopsis: That old familiar tale of duel personalities gets a flamboyant twist in this horror-themed musical told in the tradition of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Phantom of the Paradise. Directed by Andre Champagne and featuring words and music by Alan Bernhoft, this version Robert Louis Stevenson's Read More

Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical

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Actors: David Hasselhoff

Synopsis: Robert Louis Stevenson's story is adapted for modern theater in 2001's Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical starring David Hasselhoff in the leading dual role. This video is a recording of an actual performance at Plymouth Theatre on Broadway, shot with several high definition video cameras from various Read More

The Game of Death

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Actors: David Morrissey, Jonathan Pryce, Catherine Siggins, Paul Bettany, Neil Stuke

Synopsis: Roger Corman revives his tradition of bringing low-budget literary adaptations to the screen with this stylish reworking of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club, directed by Rachel Samuels. Lev L. Spiro strips the book down to its essence while also devising subplots that are not in the Read More

Robert Louis Stevenson's St. Ives

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Synopsis: Jacques St. Ives (Jean Marc Barr) is a much-envied officer in Napoleon's army who requests a demotion in rank so as to avoid a number of duels from fellow officers, who may challenge only those of an equal rank. To his shock, Jacques is demoted to the rank of private by a furious commander and is Read More

A Child's Garden of Verses and Songs: The Childhood Poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson

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Treasure Island

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Actors: Jack Palance, Kevin Zegers, Patrick Bergin, Walter Sparrow, David Robb

Synopsis: An adaptation of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson novel, featuring 1991 Academy Award winner Jack Palance as the salty pirate Long John Silver. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Ebb Tide

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Actors: Robbie Coltrane, Steven Mackintosh, Chris Barnes

Synopsis: Robert Louis Stevenson's tale of high-seas adventure comes to the screen in this feature film adaptation starring Robbie Coltrane, Steven MacKintosh, and Chris Barnes. Three hapless adventurers have agreed to deliver a cargo of vintage Champagne from Australia to Tahiti. As they set sail for their Read More

Muppet Treasure Island

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Actors: Tim Curry, Jennifer Saunders, Kevin Bishop, Billy Connolly, Frank Oz

Synopsis: Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of a young orphan who becomes involved with pirate Long John Silver is given the Muppet treatment in this vibrant children's musical. As in The Muppet Christmas Carol, the film stays loyal to the original storyline but casts the well-known puppets in many of Read More

Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde

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Actors: Sean Young, Tim Daly, Lysette Anthony, Stephen Tobolowsky, Harvey Fierstein

Synopsis: Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of a man whose scientific meddling has unexpected results gets a cross-gender update in this comedy. Richard Jacks (Tim Daly) is a research scientist trying to work his way up the ladder at a major perfume company when he inherits the notebooks of his Read More

L'Ile Au Trésor

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Actors: Melvil Poupaud, Martin Landau, Vic Tayback, Lou Castel, Jeffrey Kime

Synopsis: Jonathan (Melvil Poupaud) is an imaginative young man. This film unveils what goes on in his mind as he mulls over his recent reading of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Treasure Island and the television adventure shows he is watching. This story device allows the highly regarded and very Read More

Reading Rainbow: My Shadow

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Actors: LeVar Burton

Synopsis: This episode in the Reading Rainbow series explores the world of shadows. The featured book, My Shadow, inspires the crew to look at how shadows can affect work and play. A guest on the show, Andrea Davis, explains how people in the arts, especially photographers like her, are very aware of the Read More

Edge of Sanity

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Actors: Anthony Perkins, Glynis Barber, Sarah Maur-Thorp, David Lodge, Ben Cole

Synopsis: This demented fusion of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with the legend of Jack the Ripper marks one of the final roles for Anthony Perkins, and certainly one of the weirdest performances of his career. Perkins plays Dr. Jekyll as more of a dedicated 19th-century man of medicine than an obsessed eccentric Read More

Treasure Island

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Actors: Nicholas Amer, Christian Bale, Julian Glover, Christopher Lee, Oliver Reed, Clive Wood, Charlton Heston, Richard Johnson

Synopsis: This full-blooded TV adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island was written, produced and directed by Frasier Heston. His father, Charlton Heston plays Long John Silver. Eschewing the cuteness of Wallace Beery and the unadulterated ham of Robert Newton, Heston plays the character as Read More

The Suicide Club

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Actors: Mariel Hemingway, Robert Joy, Lenny Henry, Madeleine Potter, Michael O'Donoghue

Synopsis: In this drama, a wealthy young heiress endeavors to discover if her life does indeed have any meaning after she participates in a far-from-harmless parlor game at an exclusive costume party held in a grand old mansion. Sasha, the heiress, has fallen into a deep depression following the suicide of Read More

Strannaya Istoriya Doktora Dzhekila I Mistera Hayda

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Actors: Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Alexander Feklistov, Alla Budnitskaya, Alexander Lazarev, Anatoliy Adoskin

Synopsis: This classic mystery from Robert Louis Stevenson stars internationally acclaimed Soviet actor Innokenti Smoktunovsky as Dr. Henry Jekyll. With the help of an intravenous drug injection, he is transformed into the criminally inclined Edward Hyde (Alexander Feklistov).When a local politician is Read More

Treasure Island

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The Master of Ballantrae

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Synopsis: It was not unusual in the 1980s for a British TV miniseries to resurface in America in the form of a re-edited feature-length "movie." The Master of Ballantrae, based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, offered a unique reversal on this process. Originally telecast in the United States as a Read More

Black Arrow

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Actors: Oliver Reed, Fernando Rey, Benedict Taylor, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: Produced for cable TV by The Disney Channel, The Black Arrow is based on the classic Robert Louis Stevenson adventure tale. Stephen Chase plays the title character, a dogooding swashbuckler who tries to avenge his father's murder during the War of the Roses. Though Chase carries the bulk of the Read More

Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again

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Actors: Mark Blankfield, Bess Armstrong, Krista Erickson, Tim Thomerson, Michael McGuire

Synopsis: Robert Louis Stevenson's novel is satirized in this comedy about a scientist (Mark Blankfield) who is hopelessly addicted to his latest invention, a strange white powder. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Docteur Jekyll et les Femmes

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Actors: Udo Kier, Marina Pierro, Howard Vernon, Clement Harari

Synopsis: A bizarre Euro-kink variation on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, this intriguing film from Polish director Walerian Borowczyk takes place almost exclusively in the palatial home of Dr. Henry Jekyll (Udo Kier), where the good doctor is being feted prior to his engagement to the austere Miss Fanny Read More

Kidnapped

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Synopsis: This multipart TV version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure novel Kidnapped is regarded by Stevenson purists as one of the best adaptations ever. Set in 18th century Scotland, the story was set in motion when young David Balfour (Ekkehardt Belle), heir to a large and bountiful estate Read More

Priklyucheniya Printsa Florizelya

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Actors: Oleg Dal, Donatas Banionis, Igor Dmitriev, Lyubov Polishchuk, Vitaliy Ilyin

Synopsis: In this stylish reworking of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club, the Russian filmmakers stripped the book down to its essence while also devising comic subplots that are not in the original work. Prince Florizel (Oleg Dal), a ruler of some small fictional Middle-European country, finds his Read More

Scalawag

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Actors: Kirk Douglas, Mark Lester

Synopsis: In this exciting adventure, based on a tale by Robert Louis Stevenson and shot in Yugoslavia, a one-legged pirate must rely on the memory of a boozy, uncooperative parrot if he is to find the location of a tremendous treasure. He is later assisted by two plucky youths who help him battle it out Read More

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Actors: Kirk Douglas

Synopsis: This made-for-TV musical adaptation of the oft-filmed Robert Louis Stevenson tale is a curious novelty -- not only because it predated the Tony award-nominated Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical by nearly 25 years, but also because the musical numbers (by Lionel Bart and Irwin Kostal) are tackled by some Read More

Weir of Hermiston

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Actors: Tom Fleming, Edith MacArthur, David Rintoul, Virginia Stark, David Dundas

Synopsis: The four-part British miniseries Weir of Hermiston was based on Robert Louis Stevenson's posthumously published novel of the same name. Set in Scotland during the Napoleonic Wars, the story focused on a French POW's escape from Edinburgh Castle. Stevenson died before completing the novel, thus the Read More

Treasure Island

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Actors: Richard Dawson, Davy Jones

Synopsis: In this adventure, a plucky young lad with a treasure map boards a boat and begins an exciting quest. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Treasure Island

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Actors: Walter Slezak, Lionel Stander, Orson Welles, Kim Burfield

Synopsis: This 1972 international production of Treasure Island is one of many film versions of the classic adventure by Robert Louis Stevenson. Kim Burfield plays Jim Hawkins, a young man who works at a pub with his mother (Maria Rohm). When drunken old sailor Billy Bones (Lionel Stander) comes in for a Read More

Kidnapped

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Actors: Claire Nielson, Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins, Donald Pleasence, Lawrence Douglas

Synopsis: Kidnapped avoids the Hollywoodized interpolations of previous film versions of the Robert Louis Stevenson novel, choosing instead to adhere to the story as written. Scottish orphan David Balfour (Lawrence Douglas) is betrayed by his wicked uncle Ebeneezer (Donald Pleasance), who arranges for David Read More

The Master of Ballantrae

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Synopsis: The oft-filmed Robert Louis Stevenson novel The Master of Ballantrae was given its first British TV miniseries treatment in 1971. Set in 18th century Scotland, the story concerned a pair of brothers, James and Henry, who became separated when Henry enlisted in the service of Bonnie Prince Charlie. Read More

Treasure Island

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Synopsis: Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of pirate maps and hidden gold, has been adapted for films and television on innumerable occasions. One such version was a nine-part dramatization, presented by Britain's BBC in 1968. Starring in the 25-minute episodes were Peter Vaughn as Read More

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

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Synopsis: In this made-for-television version of Stevenson's classic tale of terror and suspense, a crazy doctor develops a formula that turns him into a madman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Wrong Box

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Actors: John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore

Synopsis: Years before the story proper in The Wrong Box gets under way, a "tontine" is drawn up on behalf several young British boys. Each of the boys' parents had placed 1000 pounds in a pool, to be invested and expanded upon. The resultant fortune will go to the last surving member of the tontine. A Read More

Kidnapped

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Synopsis: Previously adapted for British television in 1952 and 1956, Robert Louis Stevenson's historical adventure novel Kidnapped was given a third go-round by the BBC from October 13 to December 29, 1963. Unlike the two previous versions, each of which ran for six half-hour episodes, this adaptation was Read More

Maverick: A State of Siege

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Synopsis: This is the second Maverick episode to be based on a story by Robert Louis Stevenson (the first, "The Wrecker", was seen during the series' inaugural season). Bart Maverick (Jack Kelly) finds himself the unwelcome guest of Mexican aristocrat Don Felipe when his "host"'s hacienda is surrounded by Read More

Dupont Show of the Month: Treasure Island

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Synopsis: This dramatic presentation of "Treasure Island" was created specifically for television and includes all of the immortal characters, along with the original DuPont commercials. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll

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Actors: Paul Massie, Dawn Addams, Christopher Lee, David Kossoff, Francis de Wolff

Synopsis: This is the film version of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in which Hyde is the handsome, clean-shaven one. Though top-billed Christopher Lee, portraying a caddish playboy, was the beneficiary of all the ad publicity, it is Paul Massie who plays Dr. Jekyll Read More

Maverick: The Wrecker

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Synopsis: Bret and Bart Maverick (James Garner, Jack Kelly) bid on the salvage rights to a derelict cargo ship, the Apolonia. It turns out that someone is willing to commit murder to steal those rights away--which naturally arouses the curiosity of the Mavericks. In their efforts to determine why the sunken Read More

Kidnapped

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Synopsis: The second BBC TV adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's historical novel Kidnapped was adapted to the small screen by Kenneth Anderson, who'd worked on the network's 1952 version of the same literary property. Unfortunately, this six-part adaptation, originally telecast live, has been lost to the Read More

Climax!: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Actors: Michael Rennie, Mary Sinclair, Lowell Gilmore, Cedric Hardwicke

Synopsis: Telecast live from Hollywood, this hour-long version of Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde stars Michael Rennie in the title role--or rather, roles. Obsessed with his theory that every man has two distinct personalities within him, the kindly Dr. Henry Jeckyll (Rennie) begins to Read More

Saint Ives

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Synopsis: Saint Ives, Robert Louis Stevenson's posthumously published follow-up to his swashbuckling historical novel The Black Arrow (described as a "sequel" even though it was set hundreds of years after the first book), was brought to television courtesy of the BBC beginning October 30, 1955. Though Read More

Long John Silver

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Actors: Robert Newton, Kit Taylor, Connie Gilchrist, Eric Reiman, Syd Chambers

Synopsis: Robert Newton repeats his Treasure Island role as Long John Silver in this Australian adventure film--and if anything, Newton is even more out of control this time around than he'd been in the earlier picture. Paying only lip service to the Robert Louis Stevenson original, the film is made up of Read More

The Master of Ballantrae

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Actors: Errol Flynn, Roger Livesey, Anthony Steel, Beatrice Campbell, Yvonne Furneaux

Synopsis: Errol Flynn buckled his last swash in The Master of Ballantrae, playing out the final film of his Warner Brothers contract in this high seas adventure, liberally adapted from the Robert Louis Stevenson yarn. Flynn plays Jamie Durrisdeer, a Scottish heir, who fights for freedom against the British. Read More

The Treasure of Lost Canyon

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Actors: William Powell, Julie Adams, Charles Drake, Henry Hull, Rosemary de Camp

Synopsis: Gentlemanly William Powell is cast spectacularly but effectively against type in Treasure of the Lost Canyon. Powell plays Doc Brown, a somewhat seedy frontier sawbones who takes orphaned David (Tommy Ivo) under his wing. Doc knows that David is being victimized financially by crooked-attorney Read More

Kidnapped

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Synopsis: Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson's novel of treachery, betrayal, courage, and political fervor in 18th century Scotland, has been adapted for television almost as many times as it has been committed to film. The BBC had its first go at the story with a six-part, three-hour version, which was Read More

The Strange Door

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Actors: Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, Sally Forrest, Richard Stapley, Michael Pate

Synopsis: Reunited for the first time since 1932's The Old Dark House, Charles Laughton and Boris Karloff star in the second-echelon Universal melodrama The Strange Door. Based on a Robert Louis Stevenson story, the film casts Laughton as unhinged French aristocrat Alan De Maletroit. Angered when his Read More

Treasure Island

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Actors: Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney, Walter Fitzgerald, Denis O'Dea

Synopsis: The Walt Disney production of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic novel Treasure Island is one of the company's best live-action films of the '50s, and one of the best family-oriented adventures ever filmed. Bobby Driscoll plays Jim Hawkins, a young cabin boy who battles the pirate Long John Silver Read More

The Secret of St. Ives

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Actors: Richard Ney, Vanessa Brown, Henry Daniell, Edgar Barrier, Aubrey Mather

Synopsis: Long before he became a highly respected Wall Street financial adviser, Richard Ney was a minor-league film star. In Secret of St. Ives, Ney plays Anatole de Keroual, the unofficial head of a group of French prisoners during the Napoleonic Wars. Organizing an escape from his British captors Read More

Kidnapped

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Actors: Roddy McDowall, Sue England, Dan O'Herlihy, Roland Winters, Jeff Corey

Synopsis: For his first independent production, former child star Roddy McDowall selected the tried-and-true Robert Louis Stevenson classic Kidnapped. McDowall reserves the plum role of David Balfour for himself, while Dan O'Herlihy, McDowall's costar in Orson Welles' MacBeth, is cast as Scottish patriot Read More

The Black Arrow

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Actors: Louis Hayward, Janet Blair, George Macready, Edgar Buchanan, Rhys Williams

Synopsis: This commendably short adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Black Arrow stars Louis Hayward in the title role. Returning from duty in the 15th-century War of the Roses, young Richard Shelton (Hayward) learns that his estate has been claimed by his usurping uncle Sir Daniel Brackley (George Macready Read More

Adventures in Silverado

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Synopsis: Stagecoach driver Bishop needs to capture the infamous bandit known as "The Monk" for his hooded attire. If Bishop can't bring the outlaw to justice, a crime will rest on his name. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Adventure Island

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Actors: Rory Calhoun, Rhonda Fleming, Paul Kelly, John Abbott, Alan Napier

Synopsis: Adventure Island is a shorter and less satisfying remake of the 1937 Paramount actioner Ebb Tide. Rory Calhoun, Paul Kelly and John Abbott star as Herrick, Lochlin and Hulsh, three mercenary seamen involved in illegal activities in the South Seas. Hired to pilot a schooner to Australia, the Read More

La Dama de la Muerte

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Actors: Guillermo Battaglia

Synopsis: The title of this Chilean melodrama translates literally as The Lady of Death. Though filmed largely in Santiago, the production personnel, including director Carlos Hugo Christensen, were brought in from Argentina. The title character, played by Judith Sulian, is a member of a strange club which Read More

The Body Snatcher

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Actors: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater, Donna Lee, Russell Wade, Rita Corday

Synopsis: Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi were given top billing in the Val Lewton-produced The Body Snatcher, but the film's protagonist is played by Henry Daniell. A brilliant 18th century London surgeon, Daniell can only make his humanitarian medical advances by experimenting on cadavers, which is strictly Read More

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Actors: Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner, Ian Hunter, Barton MacLane, Donald Crisp

Synopsis: 1941's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the second sound version of the Robert Louis Stevenson "doppelganger" tale. This time Spencer Tracy plays the benevolent Dr. Jekyll, whose experiments in releasing the evil impulses within himself transform him into the bestial Mr. Hyde. The problem here is that Read More

Kidnapped

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Actors: Warner Baxter, Freddie Bartholomew, Arleen Whelan, C. Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen

Synopsis: Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure tale of a young 18th century boy betrayed by his wicked uncle didn't need a romantic subplot, but that didn't stop 20th Century-Fox from including a female love interest (Arleen Whelan). Bypassing that plot point, Kidnapped stars Freddie Bartholomew as the heir Read More

Ebb Tide

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Actors: Oscar Homolka, Frances Farmer, Ray Milland, Lloyd Nolan, Barry Fitzgerald

Synopsis: Technicolor is the main attraction of this overheated South Seas adventure. Ray Milland, Akim Tamiroff and Barry Fitzgerald play three shifty sailors who commandeer a smallpox-ridden boat and set out to sea. A typhoon washes them ashore on a faraway Pacific island, which is ruled by a white Read More

Trouble for Two

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Actors: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Frank Morgan, Reginald Owen, Louis Hayward

Synopsis: Though its title and cast suggests a lighthearted romantic comedy, Trouble for Two is actually a fairly faithful adaptation of three of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Suicide Club" stories. Robert Montgomery stars as incognito Prince Florizel, who is lured to a gathering of strange characters devoted Read More

Liebe Tod and Teufel

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Actors: Kaethe von Nagy, Albin Skoda, Brigitte Horney, Karl Hellmer, Aribert Waescher

Synopsis: The English-language title of this complex German romantic melodrama is Love, Death and the Devil. After three years at sea, sailor Kaethe Von Nagy stops over at a strange novelty shop where he comes into possession of an old, old bottle. Legend has it that the genie in the bottle will grant three Read More

Treasure Island

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Actors: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Otto Kruger, Lewis Stone

Synopsis: This fifth film version of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island boasts an all-star MGM cast, headed by Wallace Beery as Long John Silver and Jackie Cooper as Jim Hawkins. The screenplay, by John Lee Mahin, John Howard Lawson and Leonard Praskins, remains faithful to the Stevenson original...up Read More

Unheimliche Geschichten

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Actors: Paul Wegener, Harald Paulsen, Mary Parker, Gerhard Bienert

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Actors: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Holmes Herbert, Edgar Norton

Synopsis: This first sound version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic morality tale starred Fredric March as the kindly, philanthropic Dr. Jekyll, who makes the fatal mistake of delving into secrets that Man Should Never Know. Fascinated with the notion that within each man lurk impulses for both Good and Read More

Greek Street

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Synopsis: Cafe owner Freshman loses his singer, Maritza, to nightclub owner Lewis who provides the singer with stardom and an elegant apartment. The film ends happily when Freshman and Maritza find each other again. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Ebb Tide

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Actors: Lila Lee, James Kirkwood, Raymond Hatton, George Fawcett, Noah Beery, Sr.

Synopsis: This romantic adventure was based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. An old skipper, Captain Davis (George Fawcett), has as his companions two derelicts -- one, Huish (Raymond Hatton), is a Cockney, and the other, Robert Herrick (James Kirkwood) was once a gentleman. In Tahiti they board a Read More

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Actors: John Barrymore, Martha Mansfield

Synopsis: In 1920, filmgoers were treated to no fewer than two different film versions of Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In this one, John Barrymore plays the humanitarian Dr. Henry Jekyll, who becomes obsessed with the notion of separating the good and evil impulses within every man. To Read More

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Synopsis: This historical film is a silent version of this classic by Robert Louis Stevenson. predating the Barrymore version by five years, this adaptation has a substantially different ending. ~ All Movie Guide Read More