Dorothy Miriam Hopkins Sylvia Fay Wray Tony Joel McCrea Released by RKO | Directed by William A. Seiter Run time: 76 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code-ish Film A husband and wife sleep together. Which is fine, of course, but later a different woman pretends to have slept with the Read more…
El Capitan Thunder Victor Varconi Ynez Fay Wray Juan Don Alvarado Released by Warner Bros./First National | Directed by Alan Crosland Run time: 65 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Thunder is a lady’s man, and all the senoritas are totally into that. “Big boy!” “Little girl! Aren’t you Read more…
Drake Norris Clive Brook Joe Richard Arlen Laurie Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers Kay Fay Wray Beatrice Jean Arthur Tom Lawrence LaMarr Released by Paramount Pictures | Directed by Max Marcin & Louis J. Gasnier Run time: 62 minutes The Lawyer’s Secret: Stiff Stuff “They can’t convict me. They can’t convict an Read more…
Bob Joel McCrea Eve Fay Wray Zaroff Leslie Banks Released by RKO | Directed by Irving Pichel & Ernest B. Schoedsack Run time: 62 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Shrunken heads, taxidermied bodies, and death galore. Clearly a movie about a guy who gets his jollies from murder. Read more…
Barrington Hunt Ronald Colman Camille Fay Wray Eliza Estelle Taylor Released by Samuel Goldwyn | Directed by George Fitzmaurice Run time: 75 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film The main action takes place in a desert oasis full of scumbuckets. There’s also a girl who goes between beds as Read more…
Ann Carver Fay Wray Bill Graham Gene Raymond Carole Rodgers Claire Dodd Released by Columbia | Directed by Edward Buzzell Run time: 68 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film A woman… with a college degree! And… and she doesn’t want to sit around the house! It’s madness I tell Read more…
Jack Oakie Leon Erroll Skeets Gallagher Buddy Rogers Lilian Roth Warner Oland Eugene Pallette William Powell Clive Brooks Harry Green Maurice Chevalier Evelyn Brent Nino Martini Jean Arthur Phillips Holmes Zelma O’Neal Ruth Chatterton Fredric March Stuart Erwin Mitzi Green Helen Kane Nancy Carroll Mary Brian Gary Cooper Fay Wray Read more…
Hap Brown Hal Skelly Gardoni William Powell Marie Fay Wray Released by Paramount Pictures | Directed by Robert Milton Proof That It’s Pre-Code A married man cheats on his wife. But, hey, he’s Italian and super smooth. Behind the Makeup: Cloying Around “I seem to lack something. Something that appeals Read more…
Biff Gary Cooper Virginia Fay Wray Amy Frances Fuller Released by Paramount Pictures | Directed by Stephen Roberts One Sunday Afternoon: Regrets, I Have a Few “Ain’t no crime in this world like stealing another man’s woman.” One Sunday Afternoon is about two things that constantly interest me: class conflict Read more…
It’s Fay Wray versus… a giant octopus this week, it seems. Uh, roar?