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
Dick Walters Howard Phillip John ‘ Killer’ Mears Preston Foster Joe Berg George E. Stone Released by Astor Pictures | Directed by Sam Bischoff Run time: 69 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Several people are killed in cold blood. The hero’s final action could be interpreted as immoral, Read more
Joe Connors Spencer Tracy Fay Wilson Bette Davis Warden Paul Long Arthur Byron Hype Warren Hymer Bud Lyle Talbot Joe Louis Calhern Released by Warner Bros./First National | Directed by Michael Curtiz Run time: 78 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film A number of prison guards and prisoners meet Read more
El Capitan Thunder Victor Varconi Ynez Fay Wray Juan Don Alvarado Released by Warner Bros./First National | Directed by Alan Crosland Run time: 65 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Thunder is a lady’s man, and all the senoritas are totally into that. “Big boy!” “Little girl! Aren’t you Read more
Drake Norris Clive Brook Joe Richard Arlen Laurie Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers Kay Fay Wray Beatrice Jean Arthur Tom Lawrence LaMarr Released by Paramount Pictures | Directed by Max Marcin & Louis J. Gasnier Run time: 62 minutes The Lawyer’s Secret: Stiff Stuff “They can’t convict me. They can’t convict an Read more
Bill William Boyd Jim James Gleason Bud Russell Gleason Lew Lew Cody Katherina Lissy Arna Fritzi Zasu Pitts Released by Pathe | Directed by John S. Robertson Run time: 70 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “Oh, go to… go to bed.” One girl certainly sees fit to celebrate 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
Jack Jack Holt ‘Frisky’ Ralph Graves Helen Fay Wray Released by Columbia | Directed by Frank Capra Run time: 100 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film I can’t tell if this was suggestive or not: “You know, wives and south poles weren’t meant to mix!” Dirigible: Hot Air “When Read more
Larry Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Diane Loretta Young Areal Henry Kolker Released by First National / Warner Bros. | Directed by William C. McGann Run time: 63 (out of 70) minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “What’ve you got there?” “Prune juice, sir.” “No, don’t think so. Don’t need it Read more