Robert Louis Stevenson

<p> Robert Louis Stevenson's cinematic legacy is studied in-depth here with a look at his life and his body of work. From <I>The Sire De Maletroit's Door</I> (1877) to <I>St. Ives</I> (1896) each adapted story and all relevant film versions are examined including exhaustive analyses of the 1931 adaptation of <I>Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde</I> and the 1945 version of <I>The Body Snatcher.</I> A discussion of the process of adapting literature for the movies demonstrating how Stevenson's stories have been misrepresented for more than 80 years is also provided.</p>