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

58.140A CONTINUED:140A140BShe thinks for a second, then quickly gets out of bed, hurriesto the closet as WE PAN and starts pulling out some attire,as weFULL SHOT - FRONT HALL - SIR CHARLES' HOUSEDISSOLVE TO:Beatrix, now dressed, tip-toes down the stairs and silentlyopens the door to the street.DISSOLVE TO:140B141 CLOSE SHOT - JEKYLL - INT. LAB141The burner is now off. Jekyll is pouring the contents, whichhave dripped from the retort into a container, from thecontainer into a vial. It smokes and swirls strangely. Heholds the vial a second. He looks at the letter to Beatrix,leaning in a prominent position on the table.142 CLOSE SHOT - JEKYLL AT MIRROR142Holding the vial, he examines his face, feels his skin,turning his head. He starts to raise the vial to his lips.Then he gets another thought. WE PULL BACK AND PAN LEFT ANDRIGHT IN LONG SHOTS as he puts vial back on table, runs tothe drapes at the back of the lab, pulls them to, over thewindows, then dashes up the stairs and locks the door. Hecomes down again, approaches the vial, slowly, picks it up.For a moment, he looks straight ahead into the CAMERA, asthough into the future. Then down the vial with one longgulp. For a second, nothing happens. Then he grips his throatin a violent convulsion, he chokes, groans, and gags. He canhardly breathe. Slowly, his face starts to change into ahaggard and horrible caricature of himself. He spins arounda couple of times, then falls to the floor, writhing. THECAMERA ZOOMS down into his body, and is blacked out, as we,DISSOLVE TO:A142SERIES OF STATIC DISSOLVESA142These to show the tortured metamorphosis in the splitting ofJekyll's soul: In a spinning maelstrom of odd mechanicalwhirring sounds, rasping and cacophonous noises and odd shapescome the faces and voices of the following:1. Heath's Voice: "I can't allow it, Jekyll."2. Mrs. Weymouth's Voice: "Vicious - filthy - indecent."3. Jekyll's Voice: "... and let it destroy itself in its owndegradation."(CONTINUED)