John Bishop John Wayne Monte Black J.P. McGowan Duke Duke Released by Warner Bros. | Directed by Mack V. Wright Run time: 59 minutes Somewhere in Sonora: Guilt and Innocence “Don’t worry about me, I’ve always been a lucky sort of a cuss.” Of all the Warner Bros. B-Westerns that Read more
John Drury John Wayne Ruth Gaunt Ruth Hall Duke Duke Released by Warner Bros. | Directed by Fred Allen Run time: 55 minutes Ride Him, Cowboy: High Ridin’ Hokum “There ain’t no reason I can see why a horse don’t have the same right to a trial as a man.” Read more
Chandu Edmund Lowe Princess Nadji Irene Ware Roxor Bela Lugosi Released by Fox Film | Directed by William Cameron Menzies & Marcel Varnel Proof That It’s Pre-Code Death rays! … wait, that’s not exclusive to the early 1930s? Lots of mysticism and indulging in the mystics. One not particularly effective Read more
Joan AKA Mary Smith Blanche Mehaffey Buddy John Darrow Scoop Raymond Hatton Released by Mayfair Pictures Corporation | Directed by E. Mason Hopper Proof That It’s Pre-Code The A.D.A. is visited by a woman named Mary Smith. His butler was absent because he was, “playing ping pong with the maid next Read more
Marvin Blake Richard Barthelmess Betty Wright Dorothy Jordan Madge Bette Davis Released by Warner Brothers | Directed by Michael Curtiz Proof That It’s Pre-Code “That girl ain’t got a bit of a soul, she ain’t. But she sure got a body. Some body.” A fade out hints that Madge slipped Read more
The Particulars of the Picture Flash the Wonder Dog… Flash Jim Robbins … John Horsley Molly James … Marceline Day Otto Von Krantz … Noah Beery Reverend James … Henry B. Walthall The Chief … Mischa Auer The Flaming Signal: Taking a Tropical Bite Out of Crime “You can take Read more