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 (1912 film) appearing as Hyde in some scenes. The film is in the public domain, along with all films released before 1923. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912 film) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1912 horror film based on both Robert Louis Stevenson's novella "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1886) and on the play version (1887) of Thomas Russell Sullivan. Directed by Lucius Henderson, the film stars actor (later noted film director) James Cruze in the dual roles of Jekyll and Hyde. White-haired Dr. Jekyll has secretly locked himself in his laboratory administering himself with a vial