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Based on the Robert Louis Stevenson story: Doctor Henry Jekyll's enthusiasm for science and his selfless acts of service have made him a much-admired man. But as he visits Sir George Carew one evening, his host criticizes him for his reluctance to experience the more sensual side of life. Sir George goads Jekyll into visiting a music hall, where he watches the alluring dancer Gina. Jekyll becomes fascinated with the two contrasting sides of human nature, and he becomes obsessed with the idea of separating them. After extensive work in his laboratory, he devises a formula that does indeed allow him to alternate between two completely different personalities, his own and that of a brutish, lascivious person whom he names Hyde. It is not long before the personality of Hyde begins to dominate Jekyll's affairs.

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One year after it's popular 1930 take on "Tom Sawyer," Paramount reunited the film's principals for another enjoyable run at Mark Twain's classic prose. Now that his newfound wealth has lured his worthless Pap (Warner Richmond back into his life, Huck (Junior Durkin) opted to try and escape with an adventurous rafting trip alongside Tom (Jackie Coogan) and slave Jim (Clarence Muse). Mitzi Green, Jackie Searl, Charlotte Henry, Eugene Pallette, Clara Blandick, Jane Darwell also star. 79 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; theatrical trailer.

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Knotts stars as Jesse W. Heywood, a timid Pennsylvania dentist who leaves the comfort of the East to bring modern dentistry to the West. The misadventures begin when Jesse is duped into marrying a statuesque redhead (and reformed stagecoach bandit) who has agreed to finger the men responsible for selling whiskey to the Indians. Soon, Jesse and his bride are involved in a series of shootouts against renegade Indians and the town bad guy, and the desperate dentist is forced to switch from gums to guns in this rollicking comedy romp.