TV Guide: Gods And Monsters

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Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:43:23 -0400

The last days of Frankenstein director James Whale are explored.

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Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:28:26 -0400

The last days of Frankenstein director James Whale are explored.

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CinemaNow — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:53:10 -0400

Set in 1957, James Whale, the director of Frankenstein, had long since stepped back from the glamour and glitz of Hollywood.

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CinemaNow — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:45:09 -0400

Set in 1957, James Whale, the director of Frankenstein, had long since stepped back from the glamour and glitz of Hollywood.

Video: Gods And Monsters

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:10:24 -0400

Gods and Monsters was promoted from the outset as an artistic drama, but the publicity tended to play coyly on the possibility of a homosexual romance between the retired film director James Whale, played by Ian McKellen and his hunky gardener Clayton Boone (Brendan Fraser). While the film does involve romance, the central relationship between the director and his gardener is about the development of a genuine friendship between two outwardly dissimilar but inwardly kindred spirits. In the story, Whale has been living for many years in peaceful, if not entirely contented retirement, under the loving and watchful eye of his contentious and argumentative Hungarian housekeeper (Lynn Redgrave). His earlier celebrity as the director of the original Frankenstein movie and its sequel, The Bride of Frankenstein, results in his being visited occasionally by disagreeable young men who have come to bask in the reminiscences of this creator of two camp classics. His reputation as a fairly outrageous homosexual comes into