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Valerie Hobson has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1940s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Bride of Frankenstein.
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Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive after being attacked by an angry mob. The now-chastened scientist attempts to escape his past, but a former mentor forces him to assist with the creation of a new creature.
Dir. James Whale · With Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson

When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.
Dir. Robert Hamer · With Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
Dir. David Lean · With John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Tony Wager
A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.
Dir. Stuart Walker · With Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson