Watch The Head of Janus (1920) Online

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... Read More

Watch The Head of Janus online. Featuring Conrad Veidt and Magnus Stifter, The Head of Janus is classified as Horror genre movie with an average rating across the web of 0. It is available for streaming online in the USA The movie was filmed in Germany and was released on 1920. The Head of Janus was directed by F.W. Murnau. Read Less