Films Directed by Scott Pembroke (Study Guide) - Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde, Mandarin Mix-Up, Rupert of Hee Haw, the Oregon Trail (Paperback)

This is nonfiction commentary. Chapters: Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde, Mandarin Mix-Up, Rupert of Hee Haw, the Oregon Trail, Somewhere in Wrong, Kill or Cure, West of Hot Dog, the Snow Hawk, Short Orders, Two Sisters, Pie-Eyed, Detained, Navy Blue Days, Gas and Air, Monsieur Don't Care, Twins. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 42. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: 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 iself is both a spoof of the previous Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde films (e.g. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 film) and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912 film)) 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 man's nature with the use of a powerful drug ("Dr. Pyckle's 58th Variety" as he himself names it). Transforming into the personality of Mr. Pride (again Laurel), he terrorizes the town with unspeakable acts including stealing a boys ice cream, cheating at marbles, and popping a bag behind a lady pedestrian. The towns people track him down where Mr. Pride locks himself in the laboratory and transforms back at Dr. Pyckle. The doctor assures the townspeople that he hasn't seen the "fiend" they were after. While he talks, the drug used for the transformation spills in the plate of food of the doctor's dog. Dr. Pyckle confronts the fiendish dog when he locks the door and the townspeople leave. But once again, Mr. Pride emerges and brings havoc to the town, and again is chased down by the townspeople. He enters the lab and transforms back at Pyckle and again assures the townspeople he hasn't seen the fie...http: //booksllc.net/?id=7870244