Ace Corbin Cary Grant Eleanor Benita Hume Manning Jack La Rue Released by Paramount Directed by Louis J. Gasnier and Max Marcin Run time: 72 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Benita Hume pops out of the shower at one point and (it’s difficult to capture in a screenshot) 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
Peg Marion Davies Jerry Onslow Stevens Alaric Tyrell Davis Released by MGM Directed by Robert Z. Leonard Run time: 86 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “You little Irish–!!” Our hero, Peg (Davies), pretends to have an illicit extramarital affair in order to help another woman out. Peg O’ Read more
Orin Nordholm Jr. Paul Muni Anna Nordholm Aline MacMahon Ginny Claffin Mary Astor Released by Warner Bros./First National Directed by Mervyn LeRoy Run time: 91 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film A broad historical overview that features suicide, multiple marriages and even the Great Depression. The World Changes: Never Read more
Letty Madge Evans Mrs. Sherwood Alice Brady Sherwood Otto Kruger Carol Una Merkel Mrs. Merrick May Robson Burt Barton Phillips Holmes Released by MGM Directed by Richard Boleslavsky Run time: 86 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “You know how divorces are.” “I’ve never been married.” “Not even once?!” Read more
Jerry John Miljan Chloe Shirley Gray Colton Monroe Owsley Released by Invincible Pictures Directed by Frank R. Strayer Run time: 68 minutes Twin Husbands: Twisted Misters “I can’t pretend to be the victim of amnesia for more than a few hours at a time. My ego won’t permit it!” On Read more
Mary Richards Sylvia Sidney Harry Glynn George Raft Muriel Stevens Lilian Bond Released by MGM Directed by W.S. Van Dyke Run time: 92 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film All about the kind of woman who survived the Depression any way possible, and the men who picked them up. Read more
Doris Evans Anita Page Gordon Wayne Charles Starrett John Franklin Kenneth Thomspon Released by Monogram Studios Directed by Harry O. Hoyt and Albert H. Kelley Run time: 62 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Anita Page undresses with her back to the camera and you do manage to see Read more
Peter Stanislavsky Paul Lukas Marcia Loretta Young Philip Frank McHugh Blondie Glenda Farrell Lola Helen Vinson The Announcer Roscoe Karns Released by Warner Bros. Directed by William Dieterle Run time: 66 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Frank McHugh asks a gruff man, “Could you love a waiter?” “One Read more
Laura Diana Wynyard Edward Seward Lewis Stone Bob Seward Phillips Holmes Released by MGM Directed by Edgar Selwyn Run time: 61 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film The film opens with a nurse and flyer getting dressed in a secluded room. As a result, an unmarried woman gets pregnant. Read more