Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) Shooting script - HorrorLair

141.272 FULL PAN SHOT - SIR CHARLES272He is coming out of the drawing room on a dead run. WE PANHIM over to Beatrix and Hyde. Hyde drops Beatrix who faintsand slips to the ground. Sir Charles makes a gallant lungeat Hyde, but Hyde sends him reeling against the wall. Thenwith a wild animal laugh he leaps for his hat and stick. SirCharles, however, recovers in time to intercept his progressaround the fountain.SIR CHARLES(calling)Help! Hobson - call the police!Help -!Hyde raises his stick and lays it across Sir Charles' head.Sir Charles stumbles back and falls to the ground. Hyde leapson top of him like a panther, and bashes the stick againstSir Charles' head three or four times in rapid succession.The stick breaks with a final sickening blow. In the b.g.Hobson and a footman come hurrying from the drawing room.FOOTMANHere - what's going on -!They spy Hyde and come after him. Hyde gets up and WE PANHIM the length of the garden on the run. Hobson kneels besideSir Charles' prostrate body as the footman gives chase afterHyde around the corner of the house.273 FULL SHOT - FRONT GATE273Hyde comes running from the garden. He stops for a secondand looks up the street.274 EFFECT SHOT - JEKYLL'S ANGLE274A constable comes around the corner on the run, dimlydiscernible under a gas light.275 BACK TO HYDE275He runs o.s. down the street in the opposite direction justas the footman appears and the constable comes running up.FOOTMAN(pointing in directionof Hyde)There he goes! It's the monster!The constable runs o.s. after Hyde, blowing his whistle.