Coach Gore Pat O’Brien Claire Ann Dvorak Buck Weaver Lyle Talbot Phil Sargeant Dick Powell Barnett Hugh Herbert Dr. Sargeant Arthur Byron Released by Warner Brothers | Directed By William A. Wellman Proof That It’s Pre-Code Buck Weaver keeps a picture of a scantily clad woman in his dorm room. Read more…
Damon Wells Edward G. Robinson Jessica Mary Astor Weston Ricardo Cortez Daphne Mae Clarke Stanley Vance Louis Calhern Curtis David Landau Released by Warner Brothers | Directed by Archie Mayo Proof That It’s Pre-Code Our film’s villain is a murderous briber who uses hypnotism and spousal abuse to rob people Read more…
Joe Gimlet Lee Tracy Mary Gimlet / Mary Wright Mae Clarke Ted Wright Otto Kruger Released by MGM | Directed by Edgar Selwyn Proof That It’s Pre-Code “As the lady said to the sailor, nothing’s stopping you.” Drunk Tracy is clearly checking out Clarke’s rear when she insists that he Read more…
George Simon John Barrymore Rexy Gordon Bebe Daniels Doris Kenyon Cora Simon Roy Darwin Melvyn Douglas Harry Becker Vincent Sherman Lillian La Rue Thelma Todd Released by Universal | Directed by William Wyler Proof That It’s Pre-Code Ya’ll like class warfare? Our hero previously rigged a court case with a Read more…
Hildy Johnson Pat O’Brien Walter Burns Adolphe Menjou Peggy Grant Mary Brian Bensinger Edward Everett Horton Earl Williams George E. Stone Molly Mae Clarke Released by United Artists | Directed By Lewis Milestone Proof That It’s Pre-Code Digging through his desk, Bensinger finds a discarded woman’s slip. Plenty of dark Read more…
Jim Allen Paul Muni Bomber Wells Edward Ellis Marie Glenda Farrell Helen Helen Vinson Rev. Allen Hale Hamilton Barney Sykes Allen Jenkins Released by Warner Brothers | Directed By Mervyn LeRoy Proof That It’s Pre-Code A Texan assures us that the next man who asks him for an inspection will Read more…
Molly Louvain Ann Dvorak Scotty Cornell Lee Tracy Nicky Grant Leslie Fenton Jimmy Hook Richard Cromwell Captain Slade Charles Middleton Pops Guy Kibbee Released by Warner Brothers/First National | Directed By Michael Curtiz Proof That It’s Pre-Code Molly Louvain gets pregnant out of wedlock and has a child. Molly Louvain Read more…
Edward Weldon O.P. Heggie Stella Weldon Sidney Fox Nolan Henry Hull D.A. Plunkett Moffat Johnston Gar Boni Humphrey Bogart Joe Biggers Lynne Overman Released by Universal | Directed By Chester Erskine Proof That It’s Pre-Code One of my favorite quotes about the Production Code comes from Wikipedia (I know, I Read more…
J. Phineas Stevens Lee Tracy Dorothy Mason Madge Evans Dr. Prescott Frank Morgan Floppy Charles Butterworth Kelley David Landau Calhoun John Miljan Released by Metro Goldwyn Mayer | Directed By Jack Conway Proof That It’s Pre-Code “Since you refuse to share my humble dwellings for the evening, there’s only one Read more…
Wilkie Spencer Tracy Hogan William Boyd Mitchell George Cooper Mary Ann Dvorak The Colonel Billy Bevan Fifi Yola D’Avril Released by United Artists | Directed By A. Edward Sutherland Proof That It’s Pre-Code The best part of being a lifeguard is the women. Sometime you may even get two! Someone Read more…