Dr. Silas BrentonLowell Sherman Dr. John ParkerBenton Churchill Georgia RandLila Lee Directed by Lowell ShermanReleased by World Wide PicturesRuntime: 73 minutes Proof That It’s Pre-Code Dr. Brenton (Sherman) assails himself with a bevy of women. We see one arrive in his apartment and we cut to a short while later Read more
Madame Du BarryDolores del Rio King Louis XVReginald Owen Armand d’AiguillonVictor Jory Directed by: William DieterleReleased by: Warner Bros.Run time: 79 minutes Proof That It’s (Almost) Pre-Code “Madam, what are you trying to do to France?”“Oh, just what it’s doing to me.” We’re introduced to Du Barry (del Rio) in Read more
Mary MarloweMary Pickford John CarltonLeslie Howard SunshineNed Sparks Released by United ArtistsDirected by Frank BorzageRun time: 90 minutes Proof that It’s Pre-Code High infant mortality rate. Extramarital sex. Leslie Howard at one point gets doused in petticoats. Secrets: Love Through the Ages “I’m saving a man from drowning tonight.” With Read more
Wallace Beery is a dopey wrestler unwittingly ensnared in a love triangle in FLESH. #precode
Gerald Roland Young Germaine/”Chou Chou” Lily Damita Claire Thelma Todd Bunny Charles Ruggles Stephen Cary Grant Sparks Irving Bacon Released by Paramount Directed by Frank Tuttle Run time: 78 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Most of the film centers on two couples where everyone is chasing one or Read more
Calvin Joe E. Brown Ruth Ginger Rogers Oscar Spencer Charters Released by Warner Bros. Directed by Ray Enright Run time: 70 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Joe E. Brown ends up in a Jewish deli and gets yelled at in Yiddish. In one interesting (read: odd) moment, Brown’s Read more
Diana Sturm Tallulah Bankhead Lt. Sempter Gary Cooper Cmdr. Charles Sturm Charles Laughton Released by Paramount Directed by Marion Gering Run time: 75 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film A woman hisses at Diana, “You probably heard me say that I’d very much like to spank you!” Diana raises Read more
Ann Darrow Fay Wray Carl Denham Robert Armstrong John Driscoll Bruce Cabot Released by RKO Directed by Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack Run time: 104 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film This film touches lightly on a ton of material from white slavery to bestiality, that would be Read more
Roger Standish Richard Dix Caroline Ogden Ann Harding Matilda Blake Edna May Oliver Released by RKO Directed by William Wellman Run time: 86 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film There are a couple of particularly brutal episodes in this one, including a child begging for its life before dying Read more
Dulce Morado Kay Francis Cassy Pringle Wallace Kay Johnson Dan Wallace Charles Bickford Tony Lewis Stone Tommy Dickie Moore Mrs. Harney Zasu Pitts Released by MGM Directed by William C. DeMille Run time: 78 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Worried that she almost fell off a cliff, Dulce Read more