“A director must be pretty bad if he can’t get a thrill out of war, murder, robbery.” — James Whale

 

“He influenced every director that came after him in the genre, and his films aren’t relics…That’s quite an achievement.” — biographer James Curtis

With director Boris Karloff.

 

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935). With Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Elsa Lanchester, and Ernest Thesiger.