Journey’s End

James Whale directed the original stage production of R.C. Sherriff’s play, Journey’s End, and that job brought him to the attention of Howard Hughes who hired Whale to direct the dialogue scenes in his Hell’s Angels. It took so long to finish Hell’s Angels that Whale had enough time to go back to England, make this film adaptation of the play, and release it before Hughes’ finished his work on his flying epic. Adapting stage plays to the screen is always a challenge because the stagebound n...