"I'll give you a lover now, his name is Death!" I don't feel a need to outline the plot as I am sure that even people who aren't into horror are familiar with the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde story. The film starts with Jekyll talking, we don't see him at first but instead we see what he sees by using some inventive point of view (POV) shots. Indeed the camera work is excellent throughout, as are the atmospheric London Victorian sets and the transformation special effects of Jekyll to Hyde (and back). This relatively early "talky" was also made pre-Code and enabled it to be rather erotic, at least for its time. A very memorable scene has an attractive young bar singer called Ivy slowly peel off her stockings, revealing her bare legs, much to Jekyll's obvious guilty delight. She is then in bed topless.(seen from her side and back) and grabs the kind doctor for a kiss. When he becomes evil Hyde he claims Ivy as his, keeping her captive and lavishing her with gifts in return for implied sex. The movie does start off a bit slow but it all builds to a fantastic finale. This is a superb classic horror movie but the only thing that lets it down slightly are some of the fake British accents. Much of the cast are British but Fredric March as Jekyll/Hyde clearly sounds American and other characters such as Ivy (Miriam Hopkins) fail badly to sound English. The 1930's was arguably the best decade for classic horror movies and this is up there with the likes of "Dracula" and "Frankenstein".