Connie Mary Nolan Cobra Edward G. Robinson Fingers O’Dell Owen Moore Released by Universal Directed by Tod Browning Run time: 76 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film One gag makes you think Nolan is having a conversation from the bathtub, though she’s really washing a dog. “Don’t let that Read more
Kay Elliott Alice White Alan Ward Paul Page Linda Gregory Myrna Loy Released by Warner Bros. Directed by Edward F. Cline Run time: 56 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film One inflamed paramour shots, “It takes a blonde mama to get me that way!” I say this to my Read more
Patricia Hanley Billie Dove Paul Gherardi Basil Rathbone Olga Balakireff Kay Francis Released by First National/Warner Bros. Directed by Lloyd Bacon Run time: 67 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film There is an affair. It is a notorious one. Or so we’re told– unfortunately, there’s not much sizzle here Read more
Mary Martin Billie Dove Susie Helen Ware Dick Rollins Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Released by Warner Bros./First National Directed by John Francis Dillon Run time: 62 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Susie takes care of down-on-their-luck gangsters. When they come to her, she always proffers them her butler’s clothing. Read more
Mary Loretta Young Margaret Loretta Young George Jack Mulhall Released by Warner Bros. | Directed by William Beaudine Run time: 74 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film The film begins at a speakeasy called the Peking Pleasure Palace, which lacks a certain amount of exoticism in its Chinese staff. Read more
Wilbur Bert Wheeler Mary Marsh Dorothy Lee Ganzy Robert Woolsey Released by RKO | Directed by Edward F. Cline Run time: 75 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “Conjigating.” “He wants a room with exposure!” “Are we going to allow that here?” Ganzy’s name keeps becoming ‘Pansy’. “This stuff Read more
Peewee Bert Wheeler Dixiana Bebe Daniels Ginger Robert Woolsey Released by RKO | Directed by Luther Reed Run time: 97 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “Damn, damn, damn!” Dixiana: Gone with the Broken Wind “Wait until I polish this on your snoot!” Do you ever sit and wonder Read more
Sparrow Bert Wheeler Professor Cunningham Robert Woolsey Anita Dorothy Lee Released by RKO | Directed by Paul Sloane Run time: 97 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “What does a girl generally want a little fella for?” “In my country, we marry women first. Then we teach them how Read more
Cherry Evelyn Brent Boyd Joel McCrea Mildred Jean Arthur Released by RKO | Directed by George Archainbaud Run time: 75 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Our suffering heroine, Cherry, is a former prostitute who is known up and down the coast. “You’re nothing but a–“ “Don’t call me Read more
Raffles Ronald Colman Gwen Kay Francis Detective McKenzie David Torrence Released by Samuel Goldwyn| Directed by George Fitzmaurice Run time: 71 minutes Raffles: Just a Bit of Cricket “Heh. One way or another, we’re all thieves at times.” Boy, Raffles sure is a movie. Ronald Colman, debonair and adorable, plays Read more