Philo Vance Basil Rathbone Sigurd Arnesson Roland Young Belle Dillard Leila Hyams Released by MGM | Directed By David Burton and Nick Grime The Bishop Murder Case: Hickory Dickory DULL “And as for you… Fools! Idiots! Children! Baffled by Mother Goose!” In doing my research for The Bishop Murder Case, 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…
Louanne Dorothy Mackaill Wally Dean Frank Fay Miguel Parada Noah Beery Released by Warner Brothers | Directed by Michael Curtiz Proof That It’s Pre-Code “Why don’t you marry that guy and forget him?” We meet Dorothy Mackaill in the movie lounging in a negligee cooing a parrot on her outstretched Read more…
Harold Horne Harold Lloyd Barbara Barbara Kent Charcoal, the Janitor Willie Best Released by Paramount Pictures | Directed By Clyde Bruckman Proof That It’s Pre-Code Someone gets called a ‘pansy’. There’s a ritzy ‘Emperor’s Club’ where everyone enjoys getting sloshed. Feet First: And Safety… Oh, Well, You Know “That’s not Read more…
Professor Echo … Lon Chaney Harry Earles … Twiddledee Hercules … Ivan Linow Rosie … Lila Lee Hector … Elliot Nugent The Prosecutor … John Miljan Proof That It’s Pre-Code The film opens with a dancer who “broke the sultan’s thermometer!” The fat lady has not seen her “… feet!” Read more…
Michael Clancy … Charles Murray Andy MacIntosh … Lucien Littlefield Mrs. Clancy … Aggie Herring Proof That It’s Pre-Code “You’ve had enough.” “They don’t make that much!” Our protagonist takes it upon himself to lift up a Scotsman’s kilt and then giggles about it. Clancy in Wall Street: What Dreams Read more…
Min … Marie Dressler Bill … Wallace Beery Nancy … Dorothy Jordan Bella … Marjorie Rambeau Alec … Russell Hopton Dick … Donald Dilloway Proof That It’s Pre-Code Bill smuggles in illicit vodka in from outside the legal boundaries of the states. Alec tells Nancy that she should marry him 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…
Elmer Butts … Buster Keaton Elvira Plunkett … Anita Page Larry Mitchell … Robert Montgomery Free and Easy: Stop the Pain “If worse comes to worse, save the last bullet for yourself.” Buster Keaton talks! And he won’t stop! For the love of God, someone make him stop. I decided 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…