Temple Drake Miriam Hopkins Stephen Benbow William Gargan Trigger Jack La Rue Released by Paramount Pictures | Directed By Stephen Roberts Proof That It’s Pre-Code I’m going to go ahead and just quote Thomas Doherty’s Pre-Code Hollywood on this one: The Story of Temple Drake is a model of pre-Code Read more…
May … Carole Lombard Jimmy … Pat O’Brien Lil … Mayo Methot Proof That It’s Pre-Code It’s all about prostitutes! Women get smacked around and/or killed! In a nice switch around, we get to see a dude get dressed. Drinking galore! Everyone gambles all the time! “A gentleman don’t talk Read more…
Lee Taylor … Lee Tracy Joanne Xavier … Fay Wray Dr. Xavier … Lionel Atwill Proof That It’s Pre-Code One of the film’s scientists is seen reading a book studiously, though one of the nearby cops points out that he’s really reading a magazine called “French Art” hidden inside the Read more…
Riviere … John Barrymore Jules Fabian … Clark Gable Simone Fabian … Helen Hayes Pellerin … Robert Montgomery Robineau … Lionel Barrymore Pilot’s Wife … Myrna Loy Proof That It’s Pre-Code Robert Montgomery’s character sure has a thing for prostitutes. “Aren’t you going to change your clothes?” “A gentleman should always Read more…
Kay Arnold … Barbara Stanwyck Ralph Graves … Jerry Strong Bill Standish … Lowell Sherman Dot Lamar … Marie Provost Claire Collins … Juliette Compton Mrs. Strong … Nance O’Neill Proof That It’s Pre-Code Yes, we have Barbara Stanwyck in a bathtub, please hold your applause until the end of Read more…
The Particulars of the Picture Anna Christie … Greta Garbo Marthy … Marie Dressler Matt … Charles Bickford Chris … George F. Marion Anna Christie: The Circle of Despair Goes Round Life is all about illusions. The ones we have about other people, the ones we keep about ourselves, and Read more…
The Particulars of the Picture Simon Johanssen … Ole Olsen Peter Swanson … Chic Johnson Jack Forbes … William Gaxton Lulu Carroll … Claudia Dell Michael Cummins … John Halliday Violet … Helen Broderick 50 Million Frenchmen: Sometimes Quite Wrong Bad comedies. I hate bad comedies. 50 Million Frenchmen, unfortunately, Read more…
David Dwight … Warren William Lynn … Maureen O’Sullivan Sarah… Verree Teasdale Tom … Norman Foster Jenny … Anita Page Ella Dwight … Hedda Hopper Skyscraper Souls: A Monument to Mankind’s Hubris They laughed at me when I said I wanted a hundred-story building. They said it wouldn’t hold together. Read more…
The Particulars of the Picture Myra Mae Clarke Roy Douglass Montgomery Directed by James Whale Proof That It’s Pre-Code Prostitutes! Plenty of them, all morally conflicted about their place in the world. Oh, and some scantily clad backstage antics for good measure. As per the ever perceptive IMDB keywords, “Nipples Read more…
Lily Barbara Stanwyck Courtland Trenholm George Brent Mr. Stevens Donald Cook Chico Theresa Harris Mr. Carter Henry Kolker Mr. Sipple Arthur Hohl Proof That It’s Pre-Code The film’s main conceit is that all life is exploitation, and you must simply be the one doing the exploiting. One book thumping scholar Read more…