Pre-Code Essentials
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT plus Pre-Codes on TCM in March 2025
Long time readers will fondly recall the entirety of 2024 where I kept hinting that I had something big in the works. Well, it wasn’t that Young Man of Manhattan review that somehow took me for forever. No, I have a book coming out! And it’s about pre-Code Hollywood! Written Read more…
1930
Young Man of Manhattan (1930) Review, with Claudette Colbert and Norman Foster
Claudette Colbert and Norman Foster star as a free wheeling pair of married journalists whose successes and dalliances put a wedge in their relationship.
TCM Schedules
Pre-Code Movies on TCM and Criterion Channel in February, 2025
Turner Classic Movies is a television channel that shows classic film. This are the pre-Codes they’re showing in February.
1930
The Lady of Scandal (1930) Review, with Ruth Chatterton
Ruth Chatterton is set to stay with a family of square uppercrust Brits. Will wackiness ensue or just hot sex with Basil Rathbone?
1930
Dangerous Nan McGrew (1930) Review, with Helen Kane, James Hall and Stuart Erwin
It’s everyone’s favorite BOOP-A-DOOP girl in… a movie. Yeah. That’s all they’ve got, really.
TCM Schedules
Pre-Code Movies on TCM and Criterion Channel, January 2025
New year, new movies to view on Turner Classic Movies and the Criterion Channel.
TCM Schedules
Pre-Code Movies on TCM and Criterion Channel in December 2024
It’s a cool time in the old town tonight for a lot of obscure pre-Code goodness.
TCM Schedules
Pre-Code Movies on TCM in November 2024
We’ve got FRISCO JENNY, we’ve got FOG OVER FRISCO, we’ve got all kind of crazy Friscos over here
TCM Schedules
Pre-Code Movies on TCM and Criterion Channel in October 2024
OOOOoooOOOO it’s time for SPOOOooooOOOKY moooooooviessss on TCM and the Criteeeeereon Channnnnelllll (is this annoying I can’t tell)