Also Watched - Saturday Night Fever, Frankenstein, and More

Also watched this week, Saturday Night Fever, Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Intolerance, The Birth of a Nation.
Saturday Night Fever (1977)

Written by:  Nik Cohn (story), Norman Wexler (screenplay)
Directed by: John Badham
Starring:  John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller
Rated: R

Tony Manero (John Travolta) is a teen from a blue collar family frustrated with life, his friends, and his inability to change it. Saturday nights when he's on the dance floor is the only time he can leave it all behind.
 
Frankenstein (1931)

Written by: John L. Balderston (based upon the composition by), Mary Shelley (from the novel by), Peggy Webling     (adapted from the play by), Garrett Fort & Francis Edward Faragoh (screen play), Richard Schayer, (scenario editor), Robert Florey (contributor to treatment, uncredited), John Russell (contributor to screenplay construction, uncredited)
Directed by: James Whale
Starring:  Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff 
Rated: --

Henry Frankenstein endeavors to bring the dead back to life, having assembled a single man from multiple dead bodies.

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Written by: Mary Shelley (suggested by: the original story written in 1816 by), William Hurlbut and John L. Balderston (adapted by), William Hurlbut (screenplay), Josef Berne and Lawrence G. Blochman (adaptation, uncredited), Robert Florey (story, uncredited), Philip MacDonald (adaptation, uncredited)Tom Reed (contributing writer, uncredited), R.C. Sherriff (adaptation, uncredited), Edmund Pearson (screenplay, uncredited), Morton Covan (adaptation, uncredited)
Directed by: James Whale
Starring:    Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive
Rated: --

Henry Frankenstein is encouraged by Dr. Pretorius to create a mate for the monster.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) aka Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari

Written by: Carl Mayer, Hans Janowitz (story)
Directed by: Robert Wiene
Starring: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher
Rated: --

A story about an insane asylum director and his sleepwalking patient who predicts the future.
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)

Written by: Hettie Grey Baker, D.W. Griffith, Mary H. O'Connor, Frank E. Woods (titles, uncredited), Tod Browning (uncredited), D.W. Griffith (scenario), Anita Loos (titles), Walt Whitman (poem "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking", uncredited)
Directed by: D.W. Griffith
Starring: Lillian Gish, Douglas Fairbanks, Spottiswoode Aitken 
Rated: --

Four stories with common themes depict the cruelty and intolerance against love and charity. The stories depict the fall of Babylon, Christ's crucifixion, the St. Bartholomew's massacre in France, and the love story of a man and woman.

The Birth of a Nation (1915)

Written by: Thomas Dixon Jr. (adapted from his novel, play, novel), D.W. Griffith, Frank E. Woods
Directed by: D.W. Griffith
Starring: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall
Rated: --

Against the backdrop of the civil war, the KKK emerge as heroes.