City Lights (1931)
Directed By: Charles Chaplin
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill
Rated: G
Run Time: 1h 27m
TMM Score: 3 Stars
Strengths: Chaplin’s Charm, Heart, and Gags
Weakness: Some Gags Too Drawn Out
The Tramp befriends a blind girl selling flowers who mistakes him for a wealthy man. After befriending a Millionaire on a bender, the Tramp realizes the friendship allows him the money to take care of her if, that is, he can maintain that difficult friendship.
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Dracula (1931)
Directed by: Tod Browning
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Dwight Frye
Rated: NR (Suggested PG for Some Scary Images)
Running Time: 1 h 15 m
TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5
STRENGTHS: Old Hollywood Charm, Production Design, Story
WEAKNESSES: It's Kind of Boring, Lack of Soundtrack/Atmosphere, Acting
Count Dracula leaves his castle in Transylvania to prey on a woman who lives in London.
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Frankenstein (1931)
Directed by: James Whale
Starring: Colin Clive, Boris Karloff, Mae Clarke, Edward Van Sloan, Dwight Frye
Rated: NR (Suggested PG for Some Disturbing Content and Violence)
Running Time: 1 h 10 m
TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5
STRENGTHS: Story, Writing, Effects, Directing, Sets
WEAKNESSES: Pacing
An obsessive scientist recreates life using the corpses of dead men.
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