Biography: James Whale |
British-born director James Whale started his professional life as a newspaper cartoonist before turning to acting during his time as a prisoner in World War I. From acting, he turned to set design and then to directing, and went to Hollywood in 1930... more
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Tags: War Drama War Romance War Drama
Length: 75min
In this drama, which blends omance with suspense, Prince Kurt von Rotenberg (George Brent) is attempting to flee his native Austria one step ahead of German troops. In his travels, he meets Marta Keller (Martha Scott), and amidst the chaos that...
The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
Cast: Louis Hayward Joseph Schildkraut
Tags: Swashbuckler Costume Adventure Action Adventure
Length: 110min
Man in the Iron Mask is independent producer Edward Small's 1939 edition of the much-filmed Dumas classic. The title character is the rightful King of France, imprisoned by his pretender-to-the-throne twin brother (both roles are played by Louis...
Tags: Adventure Drama Drama
Length: 64min
At one time Universal's "prestige" director, James Whale had slipped off the A-list by the end of the 1930s; even so, his films remained both intriguing and entertaining. In Whale's Sinners in Paradise, an airplane cracks up during a storm and...
Cast: James Whale Warren William
Tags: Courtroom Drama Marriage Drama Drama
Length: 75min
James Whale's Wives Under Suspicion is remake of Whale's own 1933 production A Kiss Before the Mirror, with a few noticeable concessions for the more militant censors of 1938. District attorney Jim Stowell (Warren William) is convinced that every...
Tags: Romantic Drama Melodrama Drama
Length: 81min
James Whale directed this screen adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's French classic -Fanny. Madelon (Maureen O'Hara) is a lovely young woman who lives in a seaside community, where she has fallen in love with Marius (John Beal), a sailor. Marius is called...
Tags: War Drama Drama Crime War
Length: 103min
A handful of German soldiers readjust to civilian life in the bitter wake of World War I in this follow-up to the classic All Quiet On The Western Front, which like the first film was based on a novel by Erich Maria Remarque. After the signing of the...
Cast: Vincent Price Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. George Sanders
Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure
Length: 87min
Angry natives or a beautiful widow -- which poses the greater threat? Keith Brandon (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) is an archeologist leading a team of researchers -- Richardson (Vincent Price), Loren (Alan Hale), Forrester (George Sanders), and Scott (John...
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Cast: Boris Karloff
Tags: Creature Film Sci-Fi Horror Science Fiction
Length: 75min
This greatest of all Frankenstein movies begins during a raging thunderstorm. Warm and cozy inside their palatial villa, Lord Byron (Gavin Gordon), Percy Shelley (Douglas Walton), and Shelley's wife Mary (Elsa Lanchester) engage in morbidly sparkling...
Cast: Olivia de Havilland Lana Turner
Tags: Romance Comedy Romantic Comedy
Length: 89min
Director James Whale, well known for his witty horror films, tackled comedy head-on in this period piece, set in the 18th Century. David Garrick (Brian Aherne) is a gifted but supremely arrogant British actor whose fame is exceeded only by his ego....
Cast: Irene Dunne
Tags: Musical Romance Musical Drama Period Film Musical
Length: 110min
This second film version of the Edna Ferber/Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II musical ~Show Boat is considered by many film buffs to be the best of the three. Covering nearly four decades (was there ever an Edna Ferber novel that didn't?), the film...
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