Countess Helene Mara Jeanette MacDonald Count Rudolph Farriere Jack Buchanan Prince Otto Von Liebenheim Claude Allister Released by Paramount Pictures | Directed By Ernst Lubitsch Proof That It’s Pre-Code Jeanette MacDonald is probably wearing just a neglige for about 25% of the movie. The Prince Liebenheim’s introductory song assures us Read more…
Rasputin Lionel Barrymore Prince Chegodieff John Barrymore The Czarina Ethel Barrymore The Czar Ralph Morgan Natasha Diana Wynyard The Czarevitch Tad Alexander Released by MGM | Directed By Charles Brabin and Richard Boleslawski Proof That It’s Pre-Code Rasputin, the charmer, is clearly blackmailing women into having sex with him. Rasputin Read more…
Dick ‘Court’ Courtney Richard Barthelmess Douglas Scott Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Major Brand Neil Hamilton Released by Warner Brothers | Directed By Howard Hawks The Dawn Patrol: The Circle of Death “Wouldn’t it be funny to be back there again? Imagine getting up in the morning and having nothing to do Read more…
Juan De Dios Ramon Novarro Consuelo Dorothy Jordan Esteban Ernest Torrence Lola Renee Adoree Captain Vargas Russell Hopton La Rumbarita Mathilde Comon Released by MGM | Directed By Charles Brabin Proof That It’s Pre-Code “Do you know the difference between a piano and a parrot? You’re too young to hear Read more…
Released by Warner Brothers | Directed By Roy Mack Yours Sincerely: Bizarre Love Quadrangle “Don’t count your children before they’re hitched!” “Yours Sincerely” is a nice twenty minute mark. Like a lot of shorts, the comedic songs are better than the dramatic ones– here we have a bad seduction in Read more…
Released by United Artists | Directed By Burt Gillett Babes in the Wood: A Murder Most Fun Say what you will about Walt Disney the man (and we’ll all say things, that’s for sure), there’s little doubt that the Disney Studios has produced some impressive work in their eight decades Read more…
Released by Paramount | Directed By Dave Fleischer Minnie the Moocher: Ghostly Goofs As a boy growing up in Illinois, there’s really only one thing that was a staple in every child’s cultural education. That was the movie The Blues Brothers, of course, which ran on WGN at least once Read more…
Released by Warner Brothers | Directed By Hugh Harman Bosko’s Picture Show: A Day At the Movies “Bosko’s Picture Show” is one of the most dense cartoons I’ve seen, a whirlwind skewering of the 1930s theatrical experience. Anyone who wants to get a feel for what it was like to Read more…
Released by MGM | Directed By Ub Iwerks The Bully: The Ol’ One-Two Flip the Frog is a footnote in the cartoon industry. Like Bosko or Betty Boop’s many sidekicks, you probably have to have had a serious side education in early cartoons to know his name. MGM, looking to Read more…
Released by Paramount | Directed By Dave Fleischer Old Man of the Mountain: On Top of Old Fogey “Whatcha gonna do now?” “I’m gonna do the best I can.” Cab Calloway’s third appearance in a Betty Boop cartoon sees him as a white haired, white skinned crazy magic mountain hermit Read more…