Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde is a 1925 silent, black-and-white comedy film, directed by Scott Pembroke and Joe Rock (also the producer). The film itself is both a spoof of the previous Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde films (e.g. "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1912) and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1920)) and the well-famed novel by Robert Louis Stevenson "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde." The film stars Stan Laurel as the title characters. Dr. Stanislaus Pyckle, (a play of the actor's name, Stan Laurel), successfully separates the good and evil of
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 Paramount film) trade papers. Some of those reviewers, like the title characters in the film, were "split”, harboring both decidedly positive and negative opinions about the production. "Photoplay", a widely read New York-based monthly, provides one example of such mixed reactions. In the magazine’s June 1920 issue, critic Burns Mantle describes two of his friends’ diametric responses to the picture. One friend praised it as “a perfect sample” of filmmaking, destined to be a “classic” in cinematic history; the other friend was appalled by it. As to his latter friend, Mantle adds that she “insists as strenuously that 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr.