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1933

Short – “Just Around the Corner” (1933) Review, with Warren William, Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, and Bette Davis

Mr. Sears Warren William Mrs. Graham Joan Blondell Ginger Bette Davis Jerry Dick Powell Mrs. Sears Ruth Donnelly Tim Preston Foster Released by Warner Bros. & General Electric Run time: 13 minutes Just Around the Corner: Dignity, Hopefully “Great name, General Electric. I see you bought a name, not a Read more…

By Danny, 6 yearsMay 22, 2017 ago
1932

The Last Mile (1932) Review, with Howard Phillips and Preston Foster

Dick Walters Howard Phillip John ‘ Killer’ Mears Preston Foster Joe Berg George E. Stone Released by Astor Pictures | Directed by Sam Bischoff Run time: 69 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Several people are killed in cold blood. The hero’s final action could be interpreted as immoral, Read more…

By Danny, 6 yearsOctober 6, 2016 ago
1932

You Said a Mouthful (1932) Review, with Joe E. Brown, Ginger Rogers, and Allen ‘Farina’ Hoskins

Joe Holt Joe E. Brown Alice Ginger Rogers Sam Allen ‘Farina’ Hoskins Released by Warner Bros. | Directed by Lloyd Bacon Run time: 70 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film There’s a bird poop gag, but that’s the most I can muster. You Said a Mouthful: Toothy “Suppose you Read more…

By Danny, 7 yearsAugust 22, 2016 ago
Life Begins 1932 Loretta Young Eric Linden
1932

Life Begins (1932) Review, with Loretta Young, Eric Linden and Glenda Farrell

Grace Sutton Loretta Young Jed Sutton Eric Linden Miss Bowers Aline MacMahon Floret Glenda Farrell A Patient Dorothy Peterson Ringer Frank McHugh Released by First National/Warner Bros. | Directed by James Flood Proof That It’s Pre-Code Let’s just say that medicine has changed in 80-some years. One nervous father is Read more…

By Danny, 7 yearsFebruary 12, 2016 ago
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang 1932 Paul Muni Glenda Farrell Edward Ellis pre-Code Hollywood controversial classics
1932

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) Review, with Paul Muni, Edward Ellis and Glenda Farrell

Jim Allen Paul Muni Bomber Wells Edward Ellis Marie Glenda Farrell Helen Helen Vinson Rev. Allen Hale Hamilton Barney Sykes Allen Jenkins Released by Warner Brothers | Directed By Mervyn LeRoy Proof That It’s Pre-Code A Texan assures us that the next man who asks him for an inspection will Read more…

By Danny, 8 yearsJune 26, 2015 ago
1933

Ladies They Talk About (1933) Review

Proof That It’s Pre-Code So, uh, you ever seen a woman in prison movie? Catfights and other assorted nastiness, though nothing as extreme and as crazy sexist as you’d get about thirty years later. There’s a nice long scene where our protagonist is introduced to her fellow inmates who have Read more…

By Danny, 10 yearsNovember 16, 2012 ago
Svengali (1930)

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