John Boynton Priestley was born in Yorkshire in 1894. He would go on to become one of England’s most respected authors/critics/playwrights, with some 30 novels to his credit. Priestley passed away in 1984, at the age of 89.
While growing up in the 1960s, I used to love whenever one of the local TV channels would show one of British director James Whale’s Big 3 horror movies, all from Universal Studios: Frankenstein (1931), The Invisible Man (1933) and, perhaps best of all, the eternal glory that is Bride of Frankenstein (1935). What I was unaware of back then was the fact that there was a fourth Universal horror film directed by Whale, and that bit of youthful ignorance was not entirely my fault.
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