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 (1931 film) March jokingly sent Tracy a telegram thanking him for the greatest boost to his reputation of his entire career. The opening credits use "Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565" by Johann Sebastian Bach. The film was the first film to be screened at the first edition of the Venice International Film Festival. Grossing $1.25 million, the film was a box office hit on par with the Universal monster films of the era, even considering that its $535,000 budget was high for a horror film at the time. "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" received mostly positive reviews upon its