Released by Pinnacle | Directed by Marshall Neilan Chloe, Love is Calling You: Hang Up, Dear. “Give me two bits and I’ll tell your fortune. […] High water… sticks and stones… about a mad gal with a great big home. Find a room in the swamp… the roots of evil. Read more…
Jamil El Shehab Ramon Novarro Diana ‘Di’ Standing Myrna Loy Gerald Hume Reginald Denny Cecil Harwood C. Aubrey Smith Achmed Pasha Edward Arnold Powers Louise Closser Hale Released by MGM | Directed By Sam Wood Proof That It’s Pre-Code Myrna Loy takes a dip in the film’s most infamous scene: Read more…
Tom Walter Woolf Dawn Vivienne Segal Shep Keyes Noah Beery Pigeon Lupino Lane Joanna Marion Byron Blink Lee Moran Released by Warner Brothers | Directed By Ray Enright Proof That It’s Pre-Code Blackface galore, and plenty of ugly racial politics to boot. “Silly arse.” A woman wants a man who Read more…
Flint Walter Huston Kingsland Conrad Nagel Ann Whitehall Virginia Bruce Tula Lupe Velez Hogan Mitchell Lewis Gregg C. Henry Gordon Released by MGM | Directed By William J. Cowen Proof That It’s Pre-Code Lupe Velez enters the movie in thin strips of cloth. Flint likes calling the Read more…
Judy Jones Claudette Colbert Stewart Corder William Gargan Arnold Ainger Herbert Marshall Mrs. Mardick Mary Boland Montague Leo Carillo The Chief Tetsu Komai Released by Paramount Pictures | Directed By Cecil B. DeMille Proof That It’s Pre-Code Since the film is about commonly accepted morality shrinking away in a survival Read more…
Cleopatra Claudette Colbert Julius Caesar Warren William Marc Antony Henry Wilcoxon Released by Paramount Pictures | Directed By Cecil B. DeMille Proof That It’s Pre-Code-ish The film’s title card is placed on a strategically lit nude woman. Much of Claudette Colbert’s wardrobe is focused on showing as much of her Read more…
Aigo Francis Lederer Basil Pemberton Henri Stephenson Joan Pemberton Elissa Landi Released by RKO | Directed By J. Walter Ruben Proof That It’s Pre-Code Our lead ditches his Eskimo wife to go to Europe and chase a white woman. But don’t worry, kids, the white woman preserves her virtue! Man Read more…
Stephen Lane Jack Holt Juanita Perez Lane Dorothy Burgess Gail Hamilton Fay Wray Nancy Lane Cora Sue Collins Dr. Raymond Perez Arnold Korff ‘Lunch’ McClaren Clarence Muse Released by Columbia | Directed By Roy William Neill Proof That It’s Pre-Code Terribly, horribly politically incorrect. “What’s wrong with all of the Read more…
Joe Thunder Horse … Richard Barthelmess Lydia … Ann Dvorak Sam … Clarence Muse Quissenberry … Dudley Diggs Dr. Turner … Arthur Hohl Shanks … Sidney Toler Proof That It’s Pre-Code Oh, hey, it confronts racial prejudice and social issues in that Warner Brothers “let’s be as sensationalistic as possible” Read more…
Dr. Fu Manchu … Boris Karloff Fah Lo See … Myrna Loy Nayland Smith … Lewis Stone Sheila … Karen Morley Terrence … Charles Granville Von Berg … Jean Herscholt Proof That It’s Pre-Code The entrance to the villain’s lair is through an opium den. Upon preparing to torture a Read more…