In France, 1917, an alcoholic captain is afraid that his new replacement, his sweetheart’s brother, will betray his downfall. Read More »
Tag Archives: James Whale
They Dare Not Love (1941) James Whale, Victor Fleming, George Brent, Martha Scott, Paul Lukas
An Austrian prince flees his homeland when the Nazis take over and settles in London. Read More »
By Candlelight (1933) James Whale, Elissa Landi, Paul Lukas, Nils Asther
Josef is the valet for Count von Rommer and well trained in the philandering ways of his master. Read More »
Waterloo Bridge (1931) James Whale, Mae Clarke, Douglass Montgomery, Doris Lloyd
In World War I London, Myra is an American out of work chorus girl making ends Read More »
Remember Last Night? (1935) James Whale, Edward Arnold, Robert Young, Constance Cummings
After a night of wild partying at a friend’s house, a couple wake up to discover the party’s host has been murdered in his bed. Read More »
One More River (1934) James Whale, Diana Wynyard, Colin Clive, Frank Lawton
A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man aboard a ship. Read More »
The Impatient Maiden (1932) James Whale, Lew Ayres, Mae Clarke, Una Merkel
Myron Brooks, a medical-school student, graduates and starts his internship at a hospital. Read More »
Port of Seven Seas (1938) James Whale, Wallace Beery, Frank Morgan, Maureen O’Sullivan
Madelon and Marius intend to marry but he finds the call of the ocean irresistible and leaves her and his father behind. Read More »
Show Boat (1936) James Whale, Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger
Adaptation of the Broadway musical. Magnolia Hawks is the lovely but protected, and thus very naive Read More »
Green Hell (1940) James Whale, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Bennett, John Howard, Adventure, Romance
A group of adventurers head deep into a South American jungle in search of ancient Incan treasure. Read More »
The Man In the Iron Mask (1939) James Whale, Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William, Adventure, History, Romance
D’Artagnan and the musketeers are the only ones who know of the existence of a twin brother, and Fouquet uses his influence to keep everyone silenced. Read More »
The Great Garrick (1937) James Whale, Brian Aherne, Olivia de Havilland, Edward Everett Horton, Comedy, Romance
The Great Garrick (Brian Aherne) is the most celebrated London theater actor of his day (eighteenth century) and is invited to Paris to star at the Comedie Francaise, the most important theatre in France. Read More »
The Old Dark House (1932) James Whale, Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Comedy, Horror
Seeking shelter from a pounding rainstorm in a remote region of Wales, several travellers are admitted to a gloomy, foreboding mansion belonging to the extremely strange Femm family. Read More »
The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933) James Whale, Nancy Carroll, Frank Morgan, Paul Lukas, Mystery
When a lawyer defending his best friend for murdering his unfaithful wife discovers how the accused discovered his wife was in love with another man Read More »
The Invisible Man (1933) James Whale, Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Working in Dr. Cranley’s laboratory, scientist Jack Griffin was always given the latitude to conduct some of his own experiments. His sudden departure, however, has Cranley’s daughter Flora worried about him. Griffin has taken a room at the nearby Lion’s Head Inn, hoping to reverse an experiment he conducted on himself that made him invisible. Unfortunately, the drug he used has also warped his mind, making him aggressive and dangerous. He’s prepared to do whatever it takes to restore his appearance, and several will die in the process.
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