TCM Schedules
Pre-Code Movies on TCM in August 2025
It’s August, so we have CLARK GABLE! GLENDA FARRELL! JIMMY CAGNEY! Uh, JAMES GLEASON! We’re all excited about James Gleason, right?
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Pre-Code Movies on TCM in July 2025
A day late and a dollop short, here are the pre-Codes you can catch on TCM this month.
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Pre-Code Movies on TCM in June 2025
It’s apparently June and there is a ton of pre-Code goodness showing on TCM this month.
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Pre-Code Movies on TCM in May 2025
May means warm weather, allergies, and, yes, once again, me shilling my upcoming Pre-Code Essentials book. We’ve finished up our final review of the manuscript, so now it is just waiting to get a copy into my hands. I think it turned out spectacularly, and I hope you check it Read more…
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.
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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.