Tag: Bradley Page
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The Final Edition (1932) Review, with Mae Clarke and Pat O’Brien
An ace newspaper reporter hunts down a murderer in order to take down a crime syndicate– and she’s a woman?! Bless my stars and garters.
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Good Dame (1934) Review, with Sylvia Sydney and Fredric March
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Sylvia Sidney and Fredric March are in love again. This time it ain’t the booze that is strangling their relationship– it’s fast-talking slang! So much slang! Slang for days!
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Attorney for the Defense (1932) Review, with Edmund Lowe, Evelyn Brent, and Constance Cummings
Burton Edmund Lowe Val Lorraine Evelyn Brent Ruth Barry Constance Cummings Released by Columbia | Directed by Irving Cummings Run time: 72 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film The woman Burton sleeps with is cheating on him. Frustrated, he tells the other man, “It may relieve you to know I’m not taking up my…
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Night After Night (1932) Review, with George Raft, Roscoe Karns, and Mae West
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in 1932, All Reviews, Comedy, Crime Pays, Drinking During Prohibition, Glorifying Gangsters, Gold Digging, Homosexuality, Hookers with Hearts of Gold, Justifiable Homicide, Like, Mockery of Marriage, Mocking the Government, Premarital Sex, Scantily Clad Women, Slapping Women Around, Speakeasies, Suggestive Dialogue, Suggestive Imagery, Swearing, The DepressionJoe Anton George Raft Jerry Healy Constance Cummings Iris Wynne Gibson Leo Roscoe Karns Mabel Alison Skipworth Maude Mae West Released by Paramount | Directed by Archie Mayo Proof That It’s Pre-Code “Why that dumb cluck!” George Raft awakens and undresses to bathe. We see a lot of him. Llllladies. This film is set in…
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He Was Her Man (1934) Review, with James Cagney and Joan Blondell
Flicker Hayes James Cagney Rose Lawrence Joan Blondell Nick Gardella Victor Jory Released by Warner Brothers | Directed By Lloyd Bacon Proof That It’s Pre-Code Early on, Flicker Hayes (Cagney) agrees to rob a safe filled with junk and “nose candy.” Rose Lawerence (Blondell) plays a prostitute who decides to marry a kindly sailor named…
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Search for Beauty (1934) Review
PLEASE NOTE: THIS WEEK’S ENTRY IS NOT WORK SAFE. AT ALL. Proof That It’s Pre-Code Jesus. Well, there’s a lot of things. This film is the result of an intercontinental search for the most beautiful (white) people in the world. As such, they really want to show their wares off. Let’s start with everyone’s favorite,…