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,
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968 film) Toronto.Palance was injured while filming a stunt. The budget was approximately $900,000. ABC paid for approximately half this. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968 film) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1968 Canadian-American TV film based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was directed by Charles Jarrott, produced by Dan Curtis and written by Ian McLellan Hunter. It was one of a series of adaptations of famous novels done by ABC. Dan Curtis decided to make a film of "Jekyll and Hyde". Rod Serling wrote a draft of the