Title: Gods and Monsters
Director: Bill Condon
Genre: Drama
URL: Amazon
Price: US$10.49+shipping
Other Information/Warnings: None
Summary: A compassionate speculation about the final days of James Whale, the director of Frankenstein and 20 other films of the 1930s and ’40s, who was openly gay at a time when homosexuality in Hollywood was discreetly concealed. Whale is in failing health, recovering from a “touch of stroke” and haunted by flashes of the past that the stroke has brought on. The flashbacks are countered by Whale’s present-day attraction to a newly hired yard worker Clayton Boone. The friendship that develops between the handsome gardener and Whale is tenuous at first and then rises to a level of mutual respect and genuine friendship. But is Whale’s motivation in befriending Clay more than pure? Are there ulterior motives at work here?
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