Laura Diana Wynyard Edward Seward Lewis Stone Bob Seward Phillips Holmes Released by MGM Directed by Edgar Selwyn Run time: 61 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film The film opens with a nurse and flyer getting dressed in a secluded room. As a result, an unmarried woman gets pregnant. Read more…
Laura Dorothy Mackaill Jay James Rennie Kate Dorothy Petersen Released by Warner Bros./First National Directed by Clarence G. Badger Run time: 73 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “Aw, go to–” “Naughty naughty!” There’s a marriage where both agree to a certain level of freedom with the opposite sex, Read more…
Toto Dureyea Frank Fay Diane Churchill Laura La Plante Fifi Joan Blondell Released by Warner Bros. Directed by Michael Curtiz Run time: 72 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film The film follows a Lothario who is diagnosed with an illness that could kill him if he were to ever Read more…
Anne Murdock Dorothy Mackaill Lawrence Fellowes Lewis Stone Katherine Joan Blondell Released by Warner Bros. Directed by Lloyd Bacon & Michael Curtiz Run time: 59 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Katherine is an author who dresses in suits and chomps on strong cigars. She’s clearly coded as a Read more…
John Day Richard Dix Dorothy Day Madge Evans Mamie Una Merkel Released by MGM Directed by Charles Brabin Run time: 68 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Adultery. One man asks the prison librarian, “Do you have a book on sex?” There are a couple of murders here, and Read more…
Kitty Alice Faye Happy Jimmy Durante Jimmy Rudy Vallee Released by Fox Film Directed by George White Run time: 79 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “You Nasty Man!” features gams galore and oodles of men focusing in on various lady appendages with delight. Jimmy Durante has lost his Read more…
Christina Irene Dunne David Joel McCrea Mother Laura Hope Crews Robert Eric Linden Hester Frances Dee The Doctor Gustav von Seyffertitz Released by RKO Directed by John Cromwell Run time: 74 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Irene Dunne plays a lady scientist. Her mentor praises her, saying, “You Read more…
Ms. Dory Macy Bebe Daniels John Thorley Lewis Stone Bob Ben Lyon Released by Warner Bros. Directed by Roy Del Ruth Run time: 72 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “I can’t swim with a suit on!” “What would your wife say if she knew I was here?” “But Read more…
Tom Guy Kibbee Bunny Glenda Farrell Frank Donald Woods Madge Margaret Lindsay Colonel Fitch Hugh Herbert Lois Ruth Donnelly Released by Warner Bros. Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone Run time: 66 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film It’s a long gag on divorce. Even though two of the couples Read more…
Sandy William Haines Shirley Madge Evans Burton Conrad Nagel Released by MGM Directed by Harry Pollard Run time: 83 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “If this carburetor works, we’re going to be on our feet.” “And if it don’t, we’re going to be on our–“ “I can do Read more…