Category: Miscegenation

Chloe, Love is Calling You (1934) Review, with Olive Borden and Reed Howes

Nov 16, 2015

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in 1934, All Reviews, Dislike, Drama, Miscegenation, Race and/or Blackface

Released by Pinnacle | Directed by Marshall Neilan Chloe, Love is Calling You: Hang Up, Dear. “Give me two bits and I’ll tell your fortune. […] High water… sticks and stones… about a mad gal with a great big home. Find a room in the swamp… the roots of evil. About a fight in the…
The Barbarian (1933) Review, with Ramon Novarro and Myrna Loy

Jun 5, 2015

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in 1933, Adventure, All Reviews, Drama, Justifiable Homicide, Like, Miscegenation, Mockery of Marriage, Murder Without Consequence, Nudity, Premarital Sex, Race and/or Blackface, Rape, Scantily Clad Women, Slapping Women Around, Suggestive Dialogue, Suggestive Imagery, White Slavery

Jamil El Shehab Ramon Novarro Diana ‘Di’ Standing Myrna Loy Gerald Hume Reginald Denny Cecil Harwood C. Aubrey Smith Achmed Pasha Edward Arnold Powers Louise Closser Hale Released by MGM | Directed By Sam Wood Proof That It’s Pre-Code Myrna Loy takes a dip in the film’s most infamous scene: Everyone wants to rape Myrna…
Golden Dawn (1930) Review

Mar 20, 2015

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Danny

in 1930, Adventure, All Reviews, Miscegenation, Musical, Race and/or Blackface, Slapping Women Around, White Slavery

Tom Walter Woolf Dawn Vivienne Segal Shep Keyes Noah Beery Pigeon Lupino Lane Joanna Marion Byron Blink Lee Moran Released by Warner Brothers | Directed By Ray Enright Proof That It’s Pre-Code Blackface galore, and plenty of ugly racial politics to boot. “Silly arse.” A woman wants a man who treats her rough. “If he’s…
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…
Four Frightened People (1934) Review, with Claudette Colbert

Jun 30, 2014

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Danny

in 1934, Adventure, All Reviews, Divorce, Drama, Extramarital Sex, Like, Miscegenation, Mockery of Marriage, Murder Without Consequence, Naked Hinders, Nudity, Race and/or Blackface, Scantily Clad Women, Slapping Women Around, Suggestive Dialogue, Suggestive Imagery, Swearing, Women With Power

Judy Jones Claudette Colbert Stewart Corder William Gargan Arnold Ainger Herbert Marshall Mrs. Mardick Mary Boland Montague Leo Carillo The Chief Tetsu Komai Released by Paramount Pictures | Directed By Cecil B. DeMille Proof That It’s Pre-Code Since the film is about commonly accepted morality shrinking away in a survival situation, you have a romance…
Cleopatra (1934), with Claudette Colbert and Warren William

Jun 13, 2014

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Danny

in 1934, Academy Awards, All Reviews, Catfights, Divorce, Drama, Extramarital Sex, Gold Digging, Justifiable Homicide, Like, Miscegenation, Murder Without Consequence, Premarital Sex, Race and/or Blackface, Scantily Clad Women, Suggestive Dialogue, Suggestive Imagery, Suicide, Women With Power

Cleopatra Claudette Colbert Julius Caesar Warren William Marc Antony Henry Wilcoxon Released by Paramount Pictures | Directed By Cecil B. DeMille Proof That It’s Pre-Code-ish The film’s title card is placed on a strategically lit nude woman. Much of Claudette Colbert’s wardrobe is focused on showing as much of her chest region as possible. One…
Man of Two Worlds (1934) Review

Feb 3, 2014

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Danny

in 1934, Adventure, All Reviews, Dislike, Drama, Miscegenation

Aigo Francis Lederer Basil Pemberton Henri Stephenson Joan Pemberton Elissa Landi Released by RKO | Directed By J. Walter Ruben Proof That It’s Pre-Code Our lead ditches his Eskimo wife to go to Europe and chase a white woman. But don’t worry, kids, the white woman preserves her virtue! Man of Two Worlds: And Neither…
Black Moon (1934) Review, with Fay Wray and Jack Holt

Jan 24, 2014

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Danny

in 1934, Adventure, All Reviews, Like, Miscegenation, Race and/or Blackface, White Slavery, Women With Power

Stephen Lane Jack Holt Juanita Perez Lane Dorothy Burgess Gail Hamilton Fay Wray Nancy Lane Cora Sue Collins Dr. Raymond Perez Arnold Korff ‘Lunch’ McClaren Clarence Muse Released by Columbia | Directed By Roy William Neill Proof That It’s Pre-Code Terribly, horribly politically incorrect. “What’s wrong with all of the wonderful men, the one thing…
Massacre (1934) Review, with Richard Barthelmess and Ann Dvorak

Nov 25, 2013

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Danny

in 1934, Drama, Justifiable Homicide, Like, Miscegenation, Mocking Religion, Mocking the Government, Race and/or Blackface, Rape

Joe Thunder Horse … Richard Barthelmess Lydia … Ann Dvorak Sam … Clarence Muse Quissenberry … Dudley Diggs Dr. Turner … Arthur Hohl Shanks … Sidney Toler Proof That It’s Pre-Code Oh, hey, it confronts racial prejudice and social issues in that Warner Brothers “let’s be as sensationalistic as possible” way. There’s definitely a fade…
The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932), with Boris Karloff and Myrna Loy

Oct 4, 2013

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Danny

in 1932, Adventure, All Reviews, Horror, Justifiable Homicide, Like, Miscegenation, Mocking Religion, Narcotics, Premarital Sex, Race and/or Blackface, Rape, Suggestive Dialogue, White Slavery

Dr. Fu Manchu … Boris Karloff Fah Lo See … Myrna Loy Nayland Smith … Lewis Stone Sheila … Karen Morley Terrence … Charles Granville Von Berg … Jean Herscholt Proof That It’s Pre-Code The entrance to the villain’s lair is through an opium den. Upon preparing to torture a man, the mysterious Dr. Fu…