Parody Because audiences had seen these classic Westerns, they had expectations for any new Westerns, and when these expectations were inverted, the audience laughed. Perhaps the earliest parody film was the 1922 "Mud and Sand", a Stan Laurel film that made fun of Rudolph Valentino's film "Blood and Sand". Laurel specialized in parodies in the mid-1920s, writing and acting in a number of them. Some were send-ups of popular films, such as "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"—parodied in the comic "Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde" (1926). Others were spoofs of Broadway plays, such as "No, No, Nanette" (1925), parodied as "Yes,
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941 film) monthly did, though, find the film’s plot passé and Tracy’s Hyde far too understated in appearance to be effective: Another fan-based publication, "Modern Screen", was less subtle in its November 1941 review of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", calling the film “quite the oddest picture of the year”. The magazine, in part, considered the remake “funniest when apparently it is trying to be most serious and never so routine as when it is trying hardest to be different.” With regard to more recent critical responses to this version of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", American film reviewer and historian Leonard