Hans Harry Earles Frida Daisy Earles Cleopatra Olga Baclanova Phroso Wallace Ford Venus Leila Hyams Hercules Henry Victor Released by MGM | Directed by Tod Browning Run time: 64 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “They don’t realize I’m a man, with the same feelings they have!” Love comes Read more
Lottie Corlaix Lil Dagover Captain Corlaix Walter Huston Lt. d’Ortelles Warren William Released by Warner Bros. | Directed by Michael Curtiz Run time: 70 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film The titular woman is one of many affairs. Woman from Monte Carlo: No Love Lost “You’re saying I’m a Read more
John Allen Edward G. Robinson Shirley Day Vivienne Osborne Bud Clark Preston Foster Released by Warner Bros. | Directed by Mervyn LeRoy Run time: 68 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film There’s a surprisingly detailed discussion of electrocution death. “I ain’t gonna live with no lily!” When Bud gets Read more
Wilber Bert Wheeler Tarzana Raquel Torres Alexander Robert Woolsey Released by Columbia | Directed by Edward F. Cline Run time: 61 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “Hey! Come back here, you jackass!” “Oh see those Afri-cans.” “Virgin trees? Huh! They look pretty wild to me.” A swarm of Read more
Bert Bert Wheeler Lady Genevieve Thelma Todd Bob Robert Woolsey Released by RKO | Directed by Mark Sandrich Run time: 72 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “I like ’em young!” “Behead us? Can she do that?” “Sure, she can be-head.” (It sounds like ‘be had’. Look, it’s funny Read more
Wilbur Bert Wheeler Mary Marsh Dorothy Lee Ganzy Robert Woolsey Released by RKO | Directed by Edward F. Cline Run time: 75 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “Conjigating.” “He wants a room with exposure!” “Are we going to allow that here?” Ganzy’s name keeps becoming ‘Pansy’. “This stuff Read more
Peewee Bert Wheeler Dixiana Bebe Daniels Ginger Robert Woolsey Released by RKO | Directed by Luther Reed Run time: 97 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “Damn, damn, damn!” Dixiana: Gone with the Broken Wind “Wait until I polish this on your snoot!” Do you ever sit and wonder Read more
Pre-Code.Com Site News for October 2017 It’s time to bust out the pumpkins and plastic ghosts! TCM this month has a line-up of almost all the great pre-Code horror films. (Sadly, no Murders in the Zoo or Murders in the Rue Morgue — it’s just a bad month for murders Read more
Sparrow Bert Wheeler Professor Cunningham Robert Woolsey Anita Dorothy Lee Released by RKO | Directed by Paul Sloane Run time: 97 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “What does a girl generally want a little fella for?” “In my country, we marry women first. Then we teach them how Read more
Abby Carole Lombard Rod Gene Raymond Franklin Donald Cook Released by Columbia | Directed by David Burton Run time: 69 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film A rich young man is marrying a showgirl. His brother darkly hints, “Do you have to marry her to adore her?” “I think Read more