The Head of Janus

August. 26,1920

Rating：

7.4

Genre：

Horror Science Fiction

Keywords：

Double Life

Trailer Synopsis Cast

The film was an unauthorized adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but the source material went unrecognized by some of the German media due to changes in the characters' names. Released in 1920, this is one of Murnau's lost films. While the film itself does not survive, the scripts and related production notes do. Because the film is lost, its full length is unknown. Dr. Warren is the Dr. Jekyll character who changes into Mr. O'Connor, a parallel of Mr. Hyde. This transformation is brought about, not by experimentation with chemicals as in Stevenson's original, but through the supernatural agency of a bust of Janus (the Roman god of the doorway), which Warren / O'Connor purchases in the opening sequence as a gift for his sweetheart, Jane. When she refuses the gift, horrified, Warren / O'Connor is forced to keep the statuette himself...

Conrad Veidt as Dr. Warren

Margarete Schlegel as Grace

Bela Lugosi as Warren's Butler

Margarete Kupfer as o. A.

Gustav Botz as o. A.

Jaro Fürth as o. A.

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