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
Bill William Boyd Jim James Gleason Bud Russell Gleason Lew Lew Cody Katherina Lissy Arna Fritzi Zasu Pitts Released by Pathe | Directed by John S. Robertson Run time: 70 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “Oh, go to… go to bed.” One girl certainly sees fit to celebrate 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
Jack Jack Holt ‘Frisky’ Ralph Graves Helen Fay Wray Released by Columbia | Directed by Frank Capra Run time: 100 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film I can’t tell if this was suggestive or not: “You know, wives and south poles weren’t meant to mix!” Dirigible: Hot Air “When Read more
Larry Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Diane Loretta Young Areal Henry Kolker Released by First National / Warner Bros. | Directed by William C. McGann Run time: 63 (out of 70) minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “What’ve you got there?” “Prune juice, sir.” “No, don’t think so. Don’t need it Read more
The sixth (and, for now, final) issue of The Pre-Code Companion is now available at Amazon. It runs 77 pages and costs $2.99, with all profits being donated to the ASPCA. This issue’s contributors are: Jewel Robbery by Kim Luperi Kay Francis by Molly Bugamelli Lawyer Man by Jake Woehlke William Powell by 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
Pre-Code.Com Site News for September 2016 Well, I hope your August was good! You may have noticed that I added a few more reviews than expected– I’m just cool like that. In some ways. September will (mostly) be dedicated to exactly whom I wished I’d been able to cover a Read more
Ann Vickers Irene Dunne Barney Dolphin Walter Huston Lindsey Atwell Conrad Nagel Released by RKO | Directed by John Cromwell Run time: 76 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film One suspicious trip to Havana that ends in an out-of-wedlock child’s life ending. One prisoner is told, “We’ll have to Read more