Pre Code film Articles and Movie Reviews from the 1920s to 1934 featuring The Story of Temple Drake (1933), Beauty and the Boss (1932), and other great film classics from the 1920s.
Guest blogger Laura G. reviews New Morals for Old, a 1932 pre-Code family drama starring Robert Young and Margaret Perry as siblings whose free-spirited ways test “old-fashioned” parents Lewis Stone and Laura Hope Crews.
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In today’s guest post, writer Emma Alsop looks at a rare Pre-Code classic, The Story of Temple Drake. The 1933 controversial pre-code film, starring Miriam Hopkin was partially responsible for the creation of the Hays Code.
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Beauty and the Boss (1932) Bank president Baron Josef von Ullrich (Warren William), like so many men, very much appreciates a beautiful woman. But there’s just one place he doesn’t want to see them — in his office. He keeps…
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Guest blogger Marsha Collock writes about the exploitation classic Midnight Mary: Meet Mary Martin: Orphaned and sent away to a reformatory at 14 , hooker and gun moll at 17 and a secretary and murderess by 20. She’s a good…
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The Bad Ol’ Days: Warner Archive has gone again to their vaults to bring us the worst—the worst in human behavior in the movies from the pre-Code days. Two collections featuring top stars where behaving badly—committing crimes, getting into trouble,…
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