Movies by James Whale
As a director:
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Wives Under Suspicion (1938)
Cast: Warren William, William Lundigan, Gail Patrick …
Directed by: James Whale
Hard-line prosecutor Jim Stowell (Warren William) wins a big murder case, which sends an elderly professor to the electric chair for killing his wife. But when Stowell notices strange…
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The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson …
Directed by: James Whale
After vowing to step away from his dark experiments, Dr. Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) is blackmailed into creating another fiend (Elsa Lanchester) -- this time, in female form -- who will…
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The Invisible Man: Special Edition (1933)
Cast: Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan …
Directed by: James Whale
Scientist Jack Griffin (Claude Rains) terrorizes the British village of Ipping in this classic horror film. After a drug experiment gone awry, Griffin becomes invisible and must hide out in…
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The Old Dark House (1932)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton …
Directed by: James Whale
The director and star of 1931's Frankenstein reunite for this classic creepy-family black comedy. When stranded motorists arrive at a misty Welsh mansion, they find a family of fanatics,…
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Waterloo Bridge / Red-Headed Woman (1932)
Cast: Mae Clarke, Douglass Montgomery, Charles Boyer …
Directed by: James Whale, Jack Conway
The women are wicked and the stories steamy in these pre-Production Code Hollywood dramas. In Waterloo Bridge, the wealthy family of a soldier forces him to give up the woman he loves when…
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Frankenstein / Bride of Frankenstein: The Legacy Collection (1931)
Cast: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles …
Directed by: James Whale
In Frankenstein, a mad scientist (Colin Clive) creates a monster (the inimitable Boris Karloff) but errs by giving him a criminal brain. In Bride of Frankenstein, the superior and very witty…
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Frankenstein (1931)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, John Boles …
Directed by: James Whale
Unbeknownst to his fiancée (Mae Clarke), young scientist Dr. Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) -- aided by his hunchbacked assistant, Fritz (Dwight Frye) -- has been building a monster…