Joe Holt Joe E. Brown Alice Ginger Rogers Sam Allen ‘Farina’ Hoskins Released by Warner Bros. | Directed by Lloyd Bacon Run time: 70 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film There’s a bird poop gag, but that’s the most I can muster. You Said a Mouthful: Toothy “Suppose you Read more…
Bruce Foster Tom Brown Maizie Dickson Joan Blondell Bob Parks Kenneth Thompson Released by Warner Bros. | Directed by Lloyd Bacon Run time: 74 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film There’s a murder set off by a pair of adulterers… adultering. “That’s not your business!” “No, that’s monkey business!” Read more…
Peggy Sawyer Ruby Keeler Dorothy Brock Bebe Daniels Julian Marsh Warner Baxter Billy Lawler Dick Powell Abner Dillon Guy Kibbee Pat Denning George Brent Loraine “Lolly” Fleming Una Merkel “Anytime” Annie Lowell Ginger Rogers Thomas Barry Ned Sparks Mac Elroy Allen Jenkins Andy Lee George E. Stone The Blonde Toby Read more…
Ted Taylor David Manners Judy Mason Ann Dvorak Peter Sturgis Ken Murray Released by Warner Bros. | Directed by Lloyd Bacon Proof That It’s Pre-Code Saxophone player Ted Taylor thinks he’s getting a good reaction from a stage manager, but the guy’s only checking out a woman in a leotard Read more…
Flicker Hayes James Cagney Rose Lawrence Joan Blondell Nick Gardella Victor Jory Released by Warner Brothers | Directed By Lloyd Bacon Proof That It’s Pre-Code Early on, Flicker Hayes (Cagney) agrees to rob a safe filled with junk and “nose candy.” Rose Lawerence (Blondell) plays a prostitute who decides to Read more…
The Particulars of the Picture Simon Johanssen … Ole Olsen Peter Swanson … Chic Johnson Jack Forbes … William Gaxton Lulu Carroll … Claudia Dell Michael Cummins … John Halliday Violet … Helen Broderick 50 Million Frenchmen: Sometimes Quite Wrong Bad comedies. I hate bad comedies. 50 Million Frenchmen, unfortunately, Read more…
Proof That It’s Pre-Code Well, you know, there’s a scene where Joan Blondell is having a conversation with her coworkers about how bored she is in her job… and she slowly strips throughout her diatribe. I guess that’s one way to introduce the character… Our main character, a nurse, accidentally Read more…
Kay Francis is up to her old tricks, and by ‘old tricks’ I mean being a doctor and getting knocked up out of wedlock!
One of the raciest, funniest and craziest movies that the Pre-Code has to offer.
Gold Dust Gertie is about a gold digger in 1933. What a weird coincidence.