1932
Lady With a Past (1932) Review, with Constance Bennett and Ben Lyon
Constance Bennett gets pygmalion’d into a sex bomb in Lady With a Past (32). Will David Manners muck everything up like usual?
1932
Attorney for the Defense (1932) Review, with Edmund Lowe, Evelyn Brent, and Constance Cummings
Burton Edmund Lowe Val Lorraine Evelyn Brent Ruth Barry Constance Cummings Released by Columbia | Directed by Irving Cummings Run time: 72 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film The woman Burton sleeps with is cheating on him. Frustrated, he tells the other man, “It may relieve you to know Read more…
1933
The Little Giant (1933) Review, with Edward G. Robinson and Mary Astor
Bugs Alhern Edward G. Robinson Al Daniels Russell Hopton Polly Cass Helen Vinson Ruth Wayburn Mary Astor Donald Cass Berton Churchill Edith Merriam Shirley Grey Released by Warner Brothers | Directed by Roy Del Ruth Proof That It’s Pre-Code Robinson’s Bugs Ahern is known as a mad gangster who murders Read more…
1932
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932) Review, with Ann Dvorak and Lee Tracy
Molly Louvain Ann Dvorak Scotty Cornell Lee Tracy Nicky Grant Leslie Fenton Jimmy Hook Richard Cromwell Captain Slade Charles Middleton Pops Guy Kibbee Released by Warner Brothers/First National | Directed By Michael Curtiz Proof That It’s Pre-Code Molly Louvain gets pregnant out of wedlock and has a child. Molly Louvain Read more…