Rocky Richard Dix Nancy Elizabeth Allan Blake Ralph Bellamy Released by RKO | Directed by J. Walter Rubin Run time: 76 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film One impressive moment has a pilot give another the middle finger while also pointing it at the drawing of a pig’s asshole. Read more
Elsa Helen Twelvetrees Karl William Bakewell Otto Lew Cody Katie Zasu Pitts Muller C. Henry Gordon Hans Frank Pangborn Released by RKO Pathe | Directed by Harry Joe Brown Run time: 74 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film The title implies exactly what you think she’s had experience with. 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
Dick ‘Court’ Courtney Richard Barthelmess Douglas Scott Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Major Brand Neil Hamilton Released by Warner Brothers | Directed By Howard Hawks The Dawn Patrol: The Circle of Death “Wouldn’t it be funny to be back there again? Imagine getting up in the morning and having nothing to do Read more
Roy Rutledge James Hall Monte Rutledge Ben Lyon Helen Jean Harlow Released by United Artists | Directed By Howard Hughes Proof That It’s Pre-Code There’s a few foul mouthed fliers here, who utter things like, “Don’t be an ass!” and “Son of a Bosch!” The first World War is drenched 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
Mata Hari Greta Garbo Alexis Rosanoff Ramon Novarro General Shubin Lionel Barrymore Andriani Lewis Stone DuBois C. Henry Gordon Carlotta Karen Morley Released by MGM | Directed By George Fitzmaurice Proof That It’s Pre-Code The titular Mata Hari is an exotic dancer who doubles as a spy in Paris during Read more
The Sergeant Victor McLaglen Sanders Boris Karloff Morelli Wallace Ford Brown Reginald Denny Hale Billy Bevan Cook Alan Hale Released by RKO | Directed By John Ford The Lost Patrol: An Oasis of Death “We’re gravediggers now.” “Out here? But where are we going to bury him?” “Doesn’t make much Read more
Elmer … Buster Keaton Nescopeck … Cliff Edwards Sgt. Brophy … Edward Brophy Proof That It’s Pre-Code Here you go: Doughboys: The Wrong Stuff Buster Keaton was a soldier in the first World War. Shortly after finding success in his first few Fatty Arbuckle shorts, he was drafted and sent Read more
Mary Archer Barbara Stanwyck Hugo Wilbrandt Otto Kruger Jeff Archer Ralph Bellamy Proof That It’s Pre-Code Get this– Americans can be huge douches. We get to hear gossip about what the Germans did to a pair of nurses, and what they do to all of their prisoners– or, as one Read more