Tag: C. Henry Gordon

A Woman of Experience (1931) Review, with Helen Twelvetrees

Feb 27, 2017

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in 1931, All Reviews, Drama, Extramarital Sex, Hookers with Hearts of Gold, Indifference, Justifiable Homicide, Premarital Sex, The Horrors of War, War

Elsa Helen Twelvetrees Karl William Bakewell Otto Lew Cody Katie Zasu Pitts Muller C. Henry Gordon Hans Frank Pangborn Released by RKO Pathe | Directed by Harry Joe Brown Run time: 74 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film The title implies exactly what you think she’s had experience with. “You do believe in God,…
Broadway Thru a Keyhole (1933) Review, with Constance Cummings, Paul Kelly, and Russ Columbo

Nov 14, 2016

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in 1933, All Reviews, Comedy, Crime, Crime Pays, Cross Dressing, Drama, Drinking During Prohibition, Glorifying Gangsters, Gold Digging, Homosexuality, Indifference, Murder Without Consequence, Musical, Scantily Clad Women, Speakeasies, Suggestive Dialogue, Suggestive Imagery

Joan Constance Cummings Frank Paul Kelly Clark Russ Columbo Sybil Smith Blossom Seeley Hugh O’Connell Chuck Haskins Tex Kaley Texas Guinan Released by 20th Century Pictures | Directed by Lowell Sherman Run time: 91 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film One character, Sybil, is a former burlesque queen, and she acts it. Gold digging…
Roar of the Dragon (1932) Review, with Richard Dix, Gwili Andre, and Edward Everett Horton

Apr 4, 2016

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in 1932, Adventure, All Reviews, Drama, Like, Premarital Sex, Race and/or Blackface, Suggestive Dialogue, Suggestive Imagery, The Horrors of War

Captain Carson Richard Dix Natascha Gwili Andre Busby Edward Everett Horton Arline Judge Hortense O’Dare Gabby Zasu Pitts Voronsky C. Henry Gordon Released by RKO | Directed by Wesley Ruggles Run time: 70 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film We’re introduced to the film’s villain as he seers closed the wound from where our…
Hell’s Highway (1932) Review, with Richard Dix and Tom Brown

Jan 22, 2016

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in 1932, All Reviews, Crime, Crime Pays, Drama, Justifiable Homicide, Like, Mockery of Marriage, Murder Without Consequence, Race and/or Blackface, Suggestive Dialogue

Duke Ellis Richard Dix Johnny Ellis Tom Brown C. Henry Gordon Skinner Released by RKO | Directed by Rowland Brown Proof That It’s Pre-Code One convict had been married– to three wives at the same time. The cook is a homosexual. One guard’s wife is having an affair– and pays for it. Hell’s Highway: Paved…
Turn Back the Clock (1933) Review, with Lee Tracy, Mae Clarke, and Otto Kruger

Aug 14, 2015

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in 1933, All Reviews, Comedy, Drama, Drinking During Prohibition, Extramarital Sex, Like, Mocking the Government, Speakeasies, Suggestive Dialogue, The Depression, The Horrors of War

Joe Gimlet Lee Tracy Mary Gimlet / Mary Wright Mae Clarke Ted Wright Otto Kruger Released by MGM | Directed by Edgar Selwyn Proof That It’s Pre-Code “As the lady said to the sailor, nothing’s stopping you.” Drunk Tracy is clearly checking out Clarke’s rear when she insists that he comes to bed. The soldiers…
Penthouse (1933) Review, with Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy

Jul 31, 2015

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in 1933, All Reviews, Comedy, Crime, Crime Pays, Drama, Drinking During Prohibition, Glorifying Gangsters, Hookers with Hearts of Gold, Like, Premarital Sex, Speakeasies, Suggestive Dialogue, Suggestive Imagery

Jackson Durant Warner Baxter Gertie Waxted Myrna Loy Tony Gazotti Nat Pendleton Jim Crelliman C. Henry Gordon Sue Leonard Martha Sleeper Mimi Mae Clarke Released by MGM | Directed By W.S. Van Dyke Proof That It’s Pre-Code “Mouthpiece” Jackson Durant is more than happy to defend bootleggers and chorus girls– so long as they’re innocent…
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932) Review, with Ann Dvorak and Lee Tracy

Jun 22, 2015

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in 1932, All Reviews, Comedy, Crime, Crime Pays, Drama, Drinking During Prohibition, Gold Digging, Hookers with Hearts of Gold, Like, Mockery of Marriage, Mocking the Government, Premarital Sex, Scantily Clad Women, Suggestive Dialogue, Suggestive Imagery, The Depression

Molly Louvain Ann Dvorak Scotty Cornell Lee Tracy Nicky Grant Leslie Fenton Jimmy Hook Richard Cromwell Captain Slade Charles Middleton Pops Guy Kibbee Released by Warner Brothers/First National | Directed By Michael Curtiz Proof That It’s Pre-Code Molly Louvain gets pregnant out of wedlock and has a child. Molly Louvain lives with another man for…
Gabriel Over the White House (1933) Review

Nov 2, 2012

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Danny

in 1933, All Reviews, Drama, Drinking During Prohibition, Justifiable Homicide, Like, Message Movies, Mocking the Government, Premarital Sex, The Depression, The Horrors of War

President Jud Hammond … Walter Huston Pendy Moloy … Karen Morley Beek … Franchot Tone Nick Diamond … C. Henry Gordon Bronson … David Landau Directed by Gregory La Cava Proof That It’s Pre-Code A movie about the President of the United States. The man elected is a complete coward, a screw up who’s only…
Miss Pinkerton (1932) Review, with Joan Blondell and George Brent

Oct 26, 2012

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in 1932, All Reviews, Dislike, Extramarital Sex, Mystery, Scantily Clad Women

Proof That It’s Pre-Code Well, you know, there’s a scene where Joan Blondell is having a conversation with her coworkers about how bored she is in her job… and she slowly strips throughout her diatribe. I guess that’s one way to introduce the character… Our main character, a nurse, accidentally murders someone and isn’t punished.…
Thirteen Women (1932) Review, with Irene Dunne and Myrna Loy

Mar 10, 2011

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in 1932, All Reviews, Catfights, Divorce, Horror, Justifiable Homicide, Like, Murder Without Consequence, Race and/or Blackface, Suggestive Dialogue, Suicide, Thrill Killing

Myrna Loy camps it up in the proto-slasher THIRTEEN WOMEN.