Captain McVey Louis Wolheim Charlie Hugh Herbert Frisco Kitty Mary Astor Released by RKO | Directed by Louis Wolheim Run time: 65 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Hugh Herbert’s goofy sidekick character goes through wives with regularity. “I’d like to wrap that up and take it home myself.” Read more…
Polly Marion Davies Rev. John Harley Clark Gable Rev. James Northcott C. Aubrey Smith Released by MGM | Directed by Alfred Santell Run time: 69 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “Say Polly– did you know they recognized you when they saw the elephant’s south end?!” “Your hips is Read more…
Spike Warren Hymer Bill Spencer Tracy Goldie Jean Harlow Released by Fox Films | Directed by Benjamin Stoloff Run time: 68 minutes (Viewed print: 60) Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Two sailors go to a fashion show where Tracy insists, “The more you clap, the more they take off!” Read more…
Wallace Porter Ernest Truex Toby Van Buren Una Merkel Dillon Edward Arnold Released by MGM | Directed by Elliot Nugent Run time: 79 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film One gangster named Slim (Johnny Hines) enters to find Lombardo (C. Henry Gordon) with his leg propped up, tying his Read more…
Rose Maurrant Sylvia Sidney Sam Kaplan William Collier, Jr. Frank Maurrant David Landau Released by Samuel Goldwyn | Directed by King Vidor Run time: 80 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film A four letter word for a Jewish person is used multiple times. One that I wouldn’t use in Read more…
Jerry Peggy Shannon Brice Russell Hopton Bill Sterling Holloway Released by Pyramid | Directed by Anton Lorenze Run time: 65 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “I’ve got something red hot– all about that evangelist having a baby!” Her big scoop is a ‘love nest suicide’. Our heroine Read more…
Claire Arlington Peggy Shannon Helen Webster Lois Wilson Martin Webster Sidney Blackmer Released by Admiral Productions | Directed by Felix E. Feist Run time: 70 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film There’s an apocalypse. People die! Violently! Our heroine, Claire, is a renowned swimmer who wears a modish two-piece Read more…
Sheba Miller Alice White Nickey Solomon Chester Morris Jack William Bakewell Released by Warner Bros./First National | Directed by Mervyn LeRoy Run time: 66 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “How does she rate? Y’know, yes, no, or maybe?” Alice White undresses for a shower on camera– at least Read more…
Norma Bette Davis Butch Pat O’Brien The Captain Lewis Stone Joe Allen Jenkins Belle Glenda Farrell Pete Ruth Donnelly Released by Warner Bros. | Directed by Roy Del Ruth Run time: 72 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Since this is a film dealing with the destitute, it’s fairly Read more…
King Henry VIII Charles Laughton Anne Boleyn Merle Oberon Jane Seymour Wendy Barrie Anne of Cleves Elsa Lanchester Katherine Howard Binnie Barnes Thomas Culpeper Robert Donat Released by United Artists | Directed by Alexander Korda Run time: 97 minutes Private Life of Henry VIII: A Royal Rumpus “You smile, do Read more…