Pre-Code.com
  •  Home
  • What is Pre-Code Hollywood?
    • What is Pre-Code Hollywood?
    •  What is The Production Code?
    • A Timeline of the Pre-Code Hollywood Era
  •  The Movies
    •  The Essential Pre-Codes
    •  List of Pre-Code Films
    •  Academy Award Nominees and Winners
    •  Review List and Site Index
    •  Highest Grossing Films
  •  Discover
    •  Actors
    •  Actresses
    •  The Studios
      •  Warner Brothers
      •  MGM
      •  Paramount Pictures
      •  Fox Films
      •  RKO
  • The Pre-Code Companion
  • TCMFF

Film Topics

1933

Double Harness (1933)

The Pre-Code Follies — If you like William Powell and the movie Female, you’ll love this one.

By Danny, 15 yearsFebruary 26, 2012 ago
1932

His Private Secretary (1932)

Proof That It’s Pre-Code None other than John Wayne is a philandering rich boy with an attitude, who gets around with plenty of young ladies. And you thought he was cocky when he was a cowboy with a gun! Man, gotta dig this line, said with plenty of suggestive flair: Read more

By Danny, 15 yearsFebruary 19, 2012 ago
1932

Night World (1932)

Sin and sex, with a likeable black chap mixed in.

By Danny, 15 yearsFebruary 12, 2012 ago
1933

Havana Widows (1933)

Blondell’s to die for in this one.

By Danny, 15 yearsFebruary 5, 2012 ago
1931

The Mad Genius (1931) Review, with John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, and Donald Cook

“How can you wipe out love?” “Women have found a way.”

By Danny, 15 yearsJanuary 22, 2012 ago
1931

Iron Man (1931)

Hot sweaty men pounding each other repeatedly. You know you wanna click.

By Danny, 15 yearsJanuary 15, 2012 ago
1933

Pleasure Cruise (1933) Review

What the hell. What a weird friggin’ movie.

By Danny, 15 yearsJanuary 8, 2012 ago
1932

Red Dust (1932) Review, with Jean Harlow, Clark Gable and Mary Astor

Exotic lust and a blooming love triangle set the passions of Harlow and Gable on fire!

By Danny, 15 yearsJanuary 1, 2012 ago
1933

Design for Living (1933) Review, with Miriam Hopkins, Gary Cooper and Fredric March

The three ways of the 1930’s.

By Danny, 15 yearsDecember 18, 2011 ago
1933

Below the Sea (1933) Review, with Fay Wray and Ralph Bellamy

It’s Fay Wray versus… a giant octopus this week, it seems. Uh, roar?

By Danny, 15 yearsDecember 11, 2011 ago

Posts pagination

Previous 1 … 55 56 57 … 61 Next

Welcome to Pre-Code.Com

Celebrating Hollywood, 1930 to 1934, when movies were sexy, scandalous and a hell of a lot of fun. Learn more about the era here or explore the site's many reviews here.

Book cover for Pre-Code Essentials.

Now available from Turner Classic Movies and Running Press, check out Pre-Code Essentials, all-new content covering 50 of the most scandalous and exciting films of the early 30s! Pick it up from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, or your local bookstore!

  • 1930
  • 1931
  • 1932
  • 1933
  • 1934
  • Abortion
  • Academy Awards
  • Adventure
  • All Reviews
  • Blog-A-Thons
  • Book Reviews
  • Cartoon
  • Catfights
  • Comedy
  • Crime
  • Crime Pays
  • Cross Dressing
  • Dislike
  • Divorce
  • Documentary
  • Drama
  • Drinking During Prohibition
  • Essentials
  • Extramarital Sex
  • Farting
  • Film Festivals and Screenings
  • Film Topics
  • Fun Stuff
  • Glorifying Gangsters
  • Gold Digging
  • Homosexuality
  • Hookers with Hearts of Gold
  • Horror
  • Incest (Not Best)
  • Indifference
  • Justifiable Homicide
  • Like
  • Lists
  • Masturbation
  • Menage a Trois
  • Message Movies
  • Miscegenation
  • Mockery of Marriage
  • Mocking Religion
  • Mocking the Government
  • Murder Without Consequence
  • Musical
  • Mystery
  • Naked Hinders
  • Narcotics
  • Nudity
  • Picture Posts
  • Pre-Code Companion
  • Pre-Code Essentials
  • Pre-Code Retro
  • Premarital Sex
  • Prison Flicks
  • Race and/or Blackface
  • Rape
  • Real Life Stuff
  • Revue
  • Romance
  • Scantily Clad Women
  • Science Fiction
  • Short Film Reviews
  • Site News
  • Slapping Women Around
  • Speakeasies
  • Suggestive Dialogue
  • Suggestive Imagery
  • Suicide
  • Swearing
  • TCM Schedules
  • TCMFF
  • The Depression
  • The Good Stuff
  • The Horrors of War
  • Thrill Killing
  • Two-Strip Techinicolor
  • Useful Info
  • War
  • Weiners
  • Western
  • White Slavery
  • Women With Power

All site content copyright 2026 by Danny Reid. Site content cannot be used by or for AI, generative AI, or any billionaire bro without express written permission, which won't ever be given, so there. This site uses affiliate links to help cover the bills; any clicks would be appreciated.

Hestia | Developed by ThemeIsle
Loading Comments...