I really like how James Whale’s first three films are all WWI films. I find the subgenre of war movies to be startlingly rare and only really popped up regularly in the 20s and early 30s until focus turned towards potential future and then contemporary conflict in 1939. Seeing variations on The Great War in cinema is something I’m always keeping an eye out for, and Whale adapts another play, this time by Robert E. Sherwood, to the screen with the same professionalism he’d shown in his work o...
Published on September 08, 2025 04:18