Wilber Bert Wheeler Tarzana Raquel Torres Alexander Robert Woolsey Released by Columbia | Directed by Edward F. Cline Run time: 61 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “Hey! Come back here, you jackass!” “Oh see those Afri-cans.” “Virgin trees? Huh! They look pretty wild to me.” A swarm of Read more
Sparrow Bert Wheeler Professor Cunningham Robert Woolsey Anita Dorothy Lee Released by RKO | Directed by Paul Sloane Run time: 97 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “What does a girl generally want a little fella for?” “In my country, we marry women first. Then we teach them how Read more
George Brent Margaret Lindsay Eugene Pallette Released by Warner Bros. | Directed by William Dietrle Run time: 63 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “No, we can’t send a policeman around for that. Try the lonely hearts bureau.” A woman gets the offer of marriage rescinded for one of Read more
Cherry Evelyn Brent Boyd Joel McCrea Mildred Jean Arthur Released by RKO | Directed by George Archainbaud Run time: 75 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Our suffering heroine, Cherry, is a former prostitute who is known up and down the coast. “You’re nothing but a–“ “Don’t call me Read more
Pancho Villa Wallace Beery Rodolfo Leo Carrillo Teresa Fay Wray Jonny Sykes Stuart Erwin General Pascal Joseph Schildkraut Francisco Madero Henry B. Walthall Released by MGM | Directed by Jack Conway Run time: 115 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film People are murdered pretty indiscriminately– this is a revolution, Read more
Captain McVey Louis Wolheim Charlie Hugh Herbert Frisco Kitty Mary Astor Released by RKO | Directed by Louis Wolheim Run time: 65 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Hugh Herbert’s goofy sidekick character goes through wives with regularity. “I’d like to wrap that up and take it home myself.” Read more
Spike Warren Hymer Bill Spencer Tracy Goldie Jean Harlow Released by Fox Films | Directed by Benjamin Stoloff Run time: 68 minutes (Viewed print: 60) Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Two sailors go to a fashion show where Tracy insists, “The more you clap, the more they take off!” Read more
Rose Maurrant Sylvia Sidney Sam Kaplan William Collier, Jr. Frank Maurrant David Landau Released by Samuel Goldwyn | Directed by King Vidor Run time: 80 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film A four letter word for a Jewish person is used multiple times. One that I wouldn’t use in Read more
Jeffrey Farraday Lawrence Tibbett Tony Farraday Esther Ralston Mrs. Farraday Emma Dunn Doc Roland Young Snipe Cliff Edwards Rodman Farraday Purnell Pratt Released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Directed by Harry A. Pollard Run time: 76 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “The last place I’d worry about being caught by Read more
Trader Horn Harry Carey Peru Duncan Renaldo Nina – The White Goddess Edwina Booth Released by MGM | Directed by W.S. Van Dyke Run time: 122 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film It’s racist as hell. Another film that posits that black women’s breasts aren’t as sinful to see Read more