Oscar Jaffe John Barrymore Lily Garland Carole Lombard Oliver Webb Walter Connolly Owen O’Malley Roscoe Karns George Smith Ralph Forbes Matthew J. Clark Etienne Girardot Released by Columbia | Directed By Howard Hawks Proof That It’s Pre-Code A couple lives together despite not being married. They share a bed shaped Read more…
Duke of Charmerace John Barrymore Guarechard Lionel Barrymore Sonia Karen Morley Released by MGM | Directed By Jack Conway Proof That It’s Pre-Code This film has more euphemisms and double entendres than you could shake even possibly three or four sticks at. The Duke of Charmerace first makes the acquaintance Read more…
Pre-Code.Com Site News for March 2014 Welcome again to the show that never ends! I hope everyone enjoyed my mostly-William Powell February, since he truly is the best expression of love in such a romantic month. We’re three months into 2014 now and I’m not sure if anyone picked up Read more…
Rid Riddell Clark Gable Jim Rellence Ernest Torrence Ruby Madge Evans Angela Marie Prevost Tip Scanlon Lew Cody Tommy Boy Released by MGM | Directed By Charles Brabin Proof That It’s Pre-Code Heavy narcotics use. Well, by horses, but still. Sporting Blood: A Legacy of Tragedy “Since the beginning of Read more…
Blacky Gallagher Clark Gable Jim Wade William Powell Eleanor Packer Myrna Loy Proof That It’s Pre-Code We get to see a kid, along with many other people, die. It’s fairly gruesome. The gangster dies a noble death, notable even if it is to help out his law abiding friend. Manhattan Read more…
Jeff Keane Lionel Barrymore Consuela Fairbanks Karen Morley Brenner Nils Asther Released by MGM | Directed By Charles Brabin Proof That It’s Pre-Code A man’s marriage? A SHAM. The government? A SHAM. Eh, there are probably more shammy things here too. Oh, and the Senator tells his daughter playfully, “You’re Read more…
Nick Charles William Powell Nora Charles Myrna Loy Asta Skippy Released by MGM | Directed By W.S. Van Dyke Proof That It’s Pre-Code Well, Nick Charles punches Nora Charles in the face. There are a large number of jokes about dogs peeing. The police just punch a dude in the Read more…
Agnes ‘Aggie’ Appleby Wynne Gibson Adonriam Schlump Charles Farrell Red Branahan William Gargan Evangeline Betty Furness Sybby Zasu Pitts Aunt Katherine Blanche Friderici Released by RKO | Directed By Mark Sandrich Proof That It’s Pre-Code Sybby (Zasu Pitts) is getting blotto in a speakeasy and exclaims, “At this rate, Mae Read more…
Sherwood Nash William Powell Lynn Bette Davis Snap Frank McHugh The Duchess Verree Teasdale Joe Hugh Herbert Baroque Reginald Owen Released by Warner Brothers | Directed By William Dieterle Proof That It’s Pre-Code Walking down the Seine, Snap is offered some dirty pictures, which he looks at with much relish. Read more…
Aigo Francis Lederer Basil Pemberton Henri Stephenson Joan Pemberton Elissa Landi Released by RKO | Directed By J. Walter Ruben Proof That It’s Pre-Code Our lead ditches his Eskimo wife to go to Europe and chase a white woman. But don’t worry, kids, the white woman preserves her virtue! Man Read more…