1932
Lady With a Past (1932) Review, with Constance Bennett and Ben Lyon
Constance Bennett gets pygmalion’d into a sex bomb in Lady With a Past (32). Will David Manners muck everything up like usual?
1932
Love Me Tonight (1932) Review, with Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charlie Ruggles, Charles Butterworth, and Myrna Loy
Maurice Maurice Chevalier Princess Jeanette Jeanette MacDonald Viscount Gilbert de Varèze Charles Ruggles Count de Savignac Charles Butterworth Countess Valentine Myrna Loy Duke d’Artelines C. Aubrey Smith Released by Paramount | Directed By Rouben Mamoulian Proof That It’s Pre-Code Oh, jeez. There’re so many double entendres in the movie that Read more…
1931
Night Nurse (1931) Review, with Barbara Stanwyck and Joan Blondell
Lora Hart … Barbara Stanwyck Maloney … Joan Blondell Nick … Clark Gable Mortie … Ben Lyon Eagan … Edward Nugent Dr. Bell … Charles Winninger Proof That It’s Pre-Code Hoo boy. How long have you got? One orderly snipes at a nurse, “Don’t forget to wash that bedpan, and Read more…
1934
It Happened One Night (1934) Review
The Particulars of the Picture Peter Werne … Clark Gable Ellie Andrews … Claudette Colbert Shapeley … Roscoe Karns Gordon … Charles C. Wilson Andrews … Walter Connolly Directed by Frank Capra It Happened One Night: Bringing Down the Walls and Everything Else In Between “I want to see what Read more…
1931
Ten Cents a Dance (1931) Review, with Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara O’Neill Barbara Stanwyck Bradley Carlton Ricardo Cortez Eddie Miller … Monroe Owlsey Proof That It’s Pre-Code Ten Cents a Dance is about professional dance hall girls, who don’t come across like prostitutes at all. I mean, sure, they stand around, looking bored (“while you wait, you advertise”), waiting for Read more…
1932
Miss Pinkerton (1932) Review, with Joan Blondell and George Brent
Proof That It’s Pre-Code Well, you know, there’s a scene where Joan Blondell is having a conversation with her coworkers about how bored she is in her job… and she slowly strips throughout her diatribe. I guess that’s one way to introduce the character… Our main character, a nurse, accidentally Read more…
1932
Thirteen Women (1932) Review, with Irene Dunne and Myrna Loy
Myrna Loy camps it up in the proto-slasher THIRTEEN WOMEN.