Joe Miller Ben Lyon Julie Kirk Claudette Colbert Eli Kirk Ernest Torrence One Punch McCoy Hobart Cavanaugh Ortegus Maurice Black John Phelps Purnell Pratt Released by Reliance Pictures/Edward Small Productions | Directed By James Cruze Proof That It’s Pre-Code Seagulls keep ruining reporter Joe Miller’s Read more
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 Read more
Sally/Mimi/Jenny Claudette Colbert Tony Ricardo Cortez Mike David Manners Released by Paramount Pictures | Directed By Alexander Hall and George Somnes Proof That It’s Pre-Code That infamous ‘h-e-double-hockey sticks’ word gets dropped. “I get a lot of proposals, too… marriage isn’t one of them.” Our main character has a child Read more
Elsa Carlyle Tallulah Bankhead Jeffrey Carlyle Harvey Stephens Hardy Livingstone Irving Pichel Released by Paramount Pictures | Directed By George Abbott Proof That It’s Pre-Code Once again, everyone is amazed by a marriage that involves love. Tallulah Bankhead tries to transform into Wonder Woman but forgot to put her outfit Read more
Imhotep/Ardeth Bay Boris Karloff Helen Grosvenor Zita Johann Frank Whemple David Manners Released by Universal Studios | Directed By Karl Freund Proof That It’s Pre-Code Several fairly gruesome deaths, on camera and off. Helen gets put in some Egyptian garb, and apparently Ancient Egyptians were big fans of bare midriffs Read more
Nathan Rothschild George Arliss Count Ledrantz Boris Karloff Julie Rothschild Loretta Young Captain Fitzroy Robert Taylor Duke of Wellington C. Aubrey Smith Hannah Rothschild Florence Arliss Released by 20th Century Fox | Directed By Alfred L. Werker Proof That It’s Pre-Code The Duke of Wellington doesn’t swear, but injects the Read more
The Sergeant Victor McLaglen Sanders Boris Karloff Morelli Wallace Ford Brown Reginald Denny Hale Billy Bevan Cook Alan Hale Released by RKO | Directed By John Ford The Lost Patrol: An Oasis of Death “We’re gravediggers now.” “Out here? But where are we going to bury him?” “Doesn’t make much Read more
Baron Munchausen Jack Pearl Joe McGoo Jimmy Durante Zasu Zasu Pitts Dean Primrose Edna Mae Oliver The Janitors Ted Healy and His Three Stooges Baron Munchausen Henry Kolker Released by MGM | Directed By Walter Lang Proof That It’s Pre-Code Well: Plus a number of borderline racy jokes. … look, Read more
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 Read more
Glory Eden … Ginger Rogers Jim Davey … Norman Foster Speed Dennis … Frank McHugh Sam Ipswich … Gregory Ratoff Elmerada De Leon … Zasu Pitts Vera … Theresa Harris O’Connor … Allen Jenkins Herbert Childress … Franklin Pangborn Stu … Sterling Holloway Released by RKO | Directed By William Read more