Whitlock Walter Huston Ma Leeds Frances Starr ‘Pa’ Charles ‘Chic’ Sale Released by Warner Bros. Directed by William A. Wellman Run time: 67 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Gangsters and murders and that particular snarl we all know and love. A kid gets kicked across the room at Read more…
Henry Barton Conway Tearle Elizabeth Hawtorn Natalie Moorhead Pearl Hope Marceline Day Released by Chesterfield Pictures Directed by Richard Thorpe Run time: 67 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film One of those films with breach of promise suits galore and mistresses on the side. The King Murder: Checkmate “What Read more…
Michael William Powell Mary Carole Lombard Irene Wynne Gibson Released by Paramount Directed by Richard Wallace and Edward Goodman Run time: 71 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Guy Kibbee’s portly oligarch is taken with the ‘funny little green drinks’ of Paris– absinthe. “He was playing ‘nature’s nobleman’ with Read more…
Gloria Miriam Hopkins Duke Jack Oakie Louis George Raft Released by Paramount Directed by David Burton Run time: 78 minutes Dancers in the Dark: Bumping into Things “Listen, spendthrift! The ten cents you pay is for dancing, not wrestling!” Dancers in the Dark is one of those films where I Read more…
Mary Richards Sylvia Sidney Harry Glynn George Raft Muriel Stevens Lilian Bond Released by MGM Directed by W.S. Van Dyke Run time: 92 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film All about the kind of woman who survived the Depression any way possible, and the men who picked them up. Read more…
Mike Thomas Phillips Holmes Judge Moffett Walter Huston Mary Thomas Anita Page Released by MGM Directed by W.S. Van Dyke Run time: 92 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Based on a true story, this is a film about a corrupt judge who forces women into prostitution, frames and Read more…
Doris Evans Anita Page Gordon Wayne Charles Starrett John Franklin Kenneth Thomspon Released by Monogram Studios Directed by Harry O. Hoyt and Albert H. Kelley Run time: 62 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Anita Page undresses with her back to the camera and you do manage to see Read more…
Peter Stanislavsky Paul Lukas Marcia Loretta Young Philip Frank McHugh Blondie Glenda Farrell Lola Helen Vinson The Announcer Roscoe Karns Released by Warner Bros. Directed by William Dieterle Run time: 66 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Frank McHugh asks a gruff man, “Could you love a waiter?” “One Read more…
Marie / X-27 Marlene Dietrich Colonel Kranau Victor McLaglen Chief Gustav von Seyffertitz Released by Paramount Directed by Josef von Sternberg Run time: 91 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film The opening shot is of Marlene Dietrich adjusting her stockings. It’s called an attention-getter. The opening also involves a Read more…
‘Hap’ Harrington Ben Lyon Juliette Ona Munson Clay Walter Pidgeon Released by Warner Bros./First National Directed by Clarence G. Badger Run time: 79 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Our heroine chats casually from her bathtub. One gentleman performs a very aggressive sunscreen application. Hot Heiress: Cold Turkey “Nobody loves Read more…