Allen Champion wrote:
And the scene where Jekyll says goodbye to Muriel ("this is my penance!") is pitiful. Tracy version is better there.

But Tracy is lousy everywhere else. Miscast and too modern and "Americanized".

I don't like the "this is my penance!" sequence very much today, but again -- we're talking about how it plays these days. Bear in mind that March is the only actor in history who's won an Oscar for a horror movie (though I'd guess it was more for his dual performance, and especially as Hyde).