Capt. John Holmes John Wayne Felipe Verranca Louis Alberni Dolores Castanares Ruth Hall Don Luis Gonzalez Donald Reed Jake Morgan Slim Whitaker Duke Released by Warner Brothers | Directed By Mack V. Wright Proof That It’s Pre-Code “Aww, stick those cards in your–” “Senor!” “In your pocket. Come on!” The Read more
Stephen Jones Bing Crosby Doris Worthington Carole Lombard Edith Ethel Merman Hubert Leon Errol George George Burns Gracie Gracie Allen Released by Paramount | Directed By Norman Taurog Proof That It’s Pre-Code No one in the film actually declares whether or not they’re dressing (I imagine whoever pitched the title Read more
The British have decided to go a bit pre-Code crazy this month. Anyone with a subscription to well-regarded “Sight & Sound” magazine has probably picked up on this as its cover story for May 2014 goes into the history of pre-Code movies and its taboo-breaking habits. I haven’t read the Read more
Nathan Rothschild George Arliss Count Ledrantz Boris Karloff Julie Rothschild Loretta Young Captain Fitzroy Robert Taylor Duke of Wellington C. Aubrey Smith Hannah Rothschild Florence Arliss Released by 20th Century Fox | Directed By Alfred L. Werker Proof That It’s Pre-Code The Duke of Wellington doesn’t swear, but injects the Read more
Marky Shirley Temple Sorrowful Jones Adolphe Menjou Bangles Carson Dorothy Dell Released by Parmount | Directed By Alexander Hall Proof That It’s Pre-Code “Clothes don’t mean a thing!” “Yeah, I hear they even get married in those nudist colonies!” “All I know, boss, is that I’m supposed to be a Read more
Lydia Darrow Miriam Hopkins Don Ellis Frederic March Honey Rogers George Raft Released by Paramount Pictures | Directed By James Flood Proof That It’s Pre-Code Everyone seems to be pregnant, whether they’re married or not. I really don’t get to write this often, but really: suicide galore. All of Me: Read more
Elmer Joe E. Brown Nellie Patricia Ellis Healy High-Hips Frank McHugh Released by Warner Brothers | Directed By Mervyn LeRoy Elmer, the Great: Three Strikes I have a Facebook friend who is real life friends with French Stewart. I have no idea how this happened. I have no idea if Read more
Joe Grant Joe E. Brown Sally Evelyn Knapp June Lillian Bond Released by Warner Brothers/First National | Directed By Lloyd Bacon Fireman, Save My Child: Take My Base, Please Growing up in the Midwest meant one thing: summertime is baseball time. My parents grew up in Maryland, and both were Read more
The Sergeant Victor McLaglen Sanders Boris Karloff Morelli Wallace Ford Brown Reginald Denny Hale Billy Bevan Cook Alan Hale Released by RKO | Directed By John Ford The Lost Patrol: An Oasis of Death “We’re gravediggers now.” “Out here? But where are we going to bury him?” “Doesn’t make much Read more
A Tribute to Pre-Code from Rgroleau on Vimeo. Hey gang! I just had a few tidbits I wanted to share this week. Alert reader Rick sent me the above video that he put together, and I have to say it’s impressively done! Definitely check it out if you get the Read more