From the earliest days of cinema a fascination with Scottish historical themes fed the appetites of Hollywood. Macabre shockers, or what Robert Louis Stevenson called "regular crawlers", were especially popular. Not counting numerous shorts, five feature versions of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) were produced in Hollywood between 1912 and 1941, though none surpassed Fredric March`s Oscar-winning performance and his menacing facial transformation in Rouben Mamoulian`s production of 1931.
- Sean ConneryI am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.
- Rory BremnerThe whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
- Bill Lovejoy