James Whale: A Statement of Purpose

I don’t have any kind of grand reason for deciding to work my way through the directed works of James Whale, the Queen of Hollywood. I’m doing my normal bouncing from old to new and back again, going from the dual Johns of Frankenheimer and Hughes to jump far back in time to a studio director with not the largest of filmographies in the world. At twenty-one total feature films, all of which are thankfully extant, Whale represents a middle-range of total output to tackle, something of a middl...