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 (1920 Haydon film) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 Haydon film) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1920 horror film directed and written by J. Charles Haydon. It is the second of three adaptations of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" to be released in 1920. The first 1920 adaptation is "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" starring John Barrymore, and the third is "Der Januskopf", directed by F. W. Murnau. The Haydon version is somewhat overshadowed by the version starring Barrymore, which was released by Paramount Pictures one month earlier. As the first transformation into Hyde