The Good Fairy (1935)

The Good Fairy (William Wyler, 1935) William Wyler's The Good Fairy , adapted from Ferenc Molnár's play by legendary screenwriter an...

I Walked With a Zombie (1943)

I Walked With a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943) I Walk With a Zombie , director Jacques Tourneur's second collaboration with producer Va...

The Invisible Man (1933)

The Invisible Man (James Whale, 1933) You can definitely predict the spectacle, that beneath the horrid bandages and the sunglasses is nothi...

Lured (1947)

Lured (Douglas Sirk, 1947) This is post-war, pre- Magnificent Obsession (1954) Douglas Sirk film. Fritz Lang, Robert Siodmak, and Edgar U...

Love Me Tonight (1932)

Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian, 1932) It was love at first sight for me. Rouben Mamoulian establishes something remarkably wondrous from ...

Modern Times (1936)

Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin, 1936) In Modern Times , the iconic cinematic character The Tramp (Chaplin) is pitted against the woes of mode...

The Night of the Hunter (1955)

The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955) Prolific actor Charles Laughton's only directorial work The Night of the Hunter begins...

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz, 1938) The Adventures of Robin Hood could very well be the quintessential adventure film, wher...

Captain Blood (1935)

Captain Blood (Michael Curtiz, 1935) Michael Curtiz's Captain Blood marks the first starring role for Aussie-born actor Errol Flynn, wh...

Sinners in Paradise (1938)

Sinners in Paradise (James Whale, 1938) In 1938, stuck in the middle of a quagmire of studio politics, James Whale was assigned to direct a ...

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

The Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935) James Whale's Frankenstein (1931) left me at awe. Men trying to be gods, creating monste...

Frankenstein (1931)

Frankenstein (James Whale, 1931) After the success of Tod Browning's Dracula (1931) , Universal Studios began production for an adaptat...

The Devil-Doll (1936)

The Devil-Doll (Tod Browning, 1936) Ah, Tod Browning, king of the cinematic macabre. He after all brought to us the cinematic representation...

Dracula (1931)

Dracula (Tod Browning, 1931) Despite the many reincarnations of Count Dracula in film, from Francis Ford Coppola's more baroque and lite...

Freaks (1932)

Freaks (Tod Browning, 1932) It's an inevitable psychological response, humans tend to repel, disassociate, or react violently when shown...