Mike Palmero Leo Carillo Maria Palmero Constance Cummings Marco Ricca Robert Young Released by Columbia | Directed by Rowland V. Lee Run time: 81 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “Are you really honorable?” “Nope!” “I’m so relieved!” Bootleggers and speakeasies. “Why don’t you go out and meet some Read more
Joan Constance Cummings Frank Paul Kelly Clark Russ Columbo Sybil Smith Blossom Seeley Hugh O’Connell Chuck Haskins Tex Kaley Texas Guinan Released by 20th Century Pictures | Directed by Lowell Sherman Run time: 91 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film One character, Sybil, is a former burlesque queen, and Read more
Joe William Boyd Steve William Gargan Mabel Wynne Gibson Released by RKO | Directed by Edward L. Cahn Run time: 65 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Mabel’s last name is Weenie, which annoys her to no end. Steve delights in it, saying to her at various points: “I Read more
Burton Edmund Lowe Val Lorraine Evelyn Brent Ruth Barry Constance Cummings Released by Columbia | Directed by Irving Cummings Run time: 72 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film The woman Burton sleeps with is cheating on him. Frustrated, he tells the other man, “It may relieve you to know Read more
Bill William Gargan Jane Frances Dee Hal Ralph Bellamy Mike Wallace Ford Hermie Gregory Ratoff Ricci Jack La Rue Released by RKO | Directed by Run time: 61 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Opens with a shot of a man’s hat on a bedpost and a woman telling Read more
Released by Fleischer Studios | Directed by Dave Fleischer Run time: 6 minutes Betty Boop for President: Boop-A-Doop-Gate “What this country is in need of is a lot of heidi ho, boop-a-doop, and chocolate ice cream!” Released just before the 1932 Presidential election, “Betty Boop for President” imagines the squeaky 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
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
Tony Adolphe Menjou Connie Leila Hyams Jack Norman Foster Released by MGM | Directed by Edgar Selwyn Run time: 72 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “He has another hobby. Jumping out of bedroom windows!” “We’re not the sorts to wear our hearts on our sleeves. In fact, we’re Read more
Reeves Mr. George Arliss Jenny Bette Davis Tommy Theodore Newton Benjamin Hardie Albright Pettison Gordon Westcott Hank J. Farrell Macdonald Released by Warner Brothers | Directed By John G. Adolfi Proof That It’s Pre-Code Tommy and Betty prize their ability to buy booze from bootleggers above all else. At first, Read more