Category: Incest (Not Best)

Street of Women (1932) Review, with Kay Francis and Roland Young

Jan 21, 2022

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Danny

in 1932, All Reviews, Divorce, Drama, Extramarital Sex, Incest (Not Best), Mockery of Marriage, Suggestive Imagery

This week, a man loves a woman whose brother loves his daughter while his wife is chatting with their architect who is also in love with a woman and… why is everyone drooling over that skyscraper?
The Silver Cord (1933) Review, with Irene Dunne, Joel McCrea and Frances Dee

Nov 25, 2018

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Danny

in 1933, All Reviews, Drama, Homosexuality, Incest (Not Best), Like, Mockery of Marriage, Suggestive Imagery, Women With Power

Christina Irene Dunne David Joel McCrea Mother Laura Hope Crews Robert Eric Linden Hester Frances Dee The Doctor Gustav von Seyffertitz Released by RKO Directed by John Cromwell Run time: 74 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Irene Dunne plays a lady scientist. Her mentor praises her, saying, “You are the kind that can…
Berekeley Square (1933) Review, with Leslie Howard and Heather Angel

May 16, 2016

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Danny

in 1933, All Reviews, Comedy, Drama, Incest (Not Best), Indifference, Romance

Peter Standish Leslie Howard Helen Pettigrew Heather Angel Major Clinton Alan Mowbray Released by Fox Film | Directed by Frank Lloyd Proof That It’s Pre-Code Look, a guy travels through time to bone his great something-or-other’s cousin. It raises questions, certainly. Berkeley Square: Romance Through the Ages “Time– real time– is nothing but an idea…
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) Review, with Norma Shearer, Fredric March, and Charles Laughton

Apr 20, 2015

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Danny

in 1934, All Reviews, Drama, Incest (Not Best), Like, Weiners

Elizabeth Barrett Norma Shearer Robert Browning Fredric March Edward Moulton-Barrett Charles Laughton Released by MGM | Directed By Sidney Franklin Proof That It’s Pre-Code-ish Aspects of the incestuous feelings Edward Barrett felt towards his daughter Elizabeth are present, though diminished from what was portrayed in the original stage play. However, Charles Laughton is famous for…
Kongo (1932) Review, with Walter Huston

Jan 12, 2015

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Danny

in 1932, All Reviews, Drama, Hookers with Hearts of Gold, Horror, Incest (Not Best), Justifiable Homicide, Like, Miscegenation, Mocking Religion, Narcotics, Premarital Sex, Race and/or Blackface, Rape, Scantily Clad Women, Slapping Women Around, Suggestive Dialogue, Suggestive Imagery, Swearing, Thrill Killing, White Slavery

Flint Walter Huston Kingsland Conrad Nagel Ann Whitehall Virginia Bruce Tula Lupe Velez Hogan Mitchell Lewis Gregg C. Henry Gordon Released by MGM | Directed By William J. Cowen Proof That It’s Pre-Code Lupe Velez enters the movie in thin strips of cloth. Flint likes calling the natives ‘bushrats’ and dropping lines…
Dames (1934) Review, with Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, and Dick Powell

Dec 15, 2014

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Danny

in 1934, All Reviews, Comedy, Essentials, Gold Digging, Incest (Not Best), Like, Musical, Scantily Clad Women, Suggestive Dialogue, Suggestive Imagery

Mabel Joan Blondell Barbara Hemmingway Ruby Keeler Jimmy Higgins Dick Powell Mathilda Hemmingway Zasu Pitts Horace P. Hemmingway Guy Kibbee Ezra Ounce Hugh Herbert Released by Warner Brothers | Directed By Ray Enright and Busby Berkeley Proof That It’s Pre-Code-ish Leading romantic couple Barbara and Jimmy are 13th cousins, or so Jimmy says to calm…
Alias The Doctor (1932) Review, with Richard Barthelmess

Nov 4, 2013

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Danny

in 1932, All Reviews, Drama, Incest (Not Best), Indifference, Mocking the Government, Murder Without Consequence

Karl Brenner … Richard Barthelmess Lotti Brenner … Marian Marsh Martha Brenner … Lucille LaVerne Proof That It’s Pre-Code One very suspicious surgery, and the fact that our hero is in love with his sister. Mind you, he’s adopted, but really. Alias The Doctor: Bond of Brothers The word ‘convoluted’ covers a lot of ground,…
Ever in My Heart (1933) Review, with Barbara Stanwyck

Jul 23, 2013

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Danny

in 1933, All Reviews, Drama, Incest (Not Best), Indifference, Justifiable Homicide, Race and/or Blackface, Suggestive Imagery, Suicide, The Horrors of War, War

Mary Archer Barbara Stanwyck Hugo Wilbrandt Otto Kruger Jeff Archer Ralph Bellamy Proof That It’s Pre-Code Get this– Americans can be huge douches. We get to hear gossip about what the Germans did to a pair of nurses, and what they do to all of their prisoners– or, as one spinster put it, “I thought…
Scarface: Shame of a Nation (1932) Review

Sep 20, 2011

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Danny

in 1932, All Reviews, Crime, Drinking During Prohibition, Glorifying Gangsters, Hookers with Hearts of Gold, Incest (Not Best), Like, Mocking the Government, Scantily Clad Women, Speakeasies, The Depression, Thrill Killing

The Pre-Code Follies: No, it’s not the one that’s on all of the t-shirts and dorm room walls. It’s the original Scarface. You know, the really fucking good one. From Danny.