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Playing Around (1930) Review, with Alice White and Chester Morris

Mar 17, 2017

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in 1930, All Reviews, Drama, Glorifying Gangsters, Indifference, Scantily Clad Women, Speakeasies

Sheba Miller Alice White Nickey Solomon Chester Morris Jack William Bakewell Released by Warner Bros./First National | Directed by Mervyn LeRoy Run time: 66 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “How does she rate? Y’know, yes, no, or maybe?” Alice White undresses for a shower on camera– at least as much as they could…

The Big House (1930) Review

Apr 19, 2013

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in 1930, All Reviews, Drama, Glorifying Gangsters, Justifiable Homicide, Like, Message Movies, Thrill Killing

The Particulars of the Picture Kent … Robert Montgomery Morgan … Chester Morris Butch … Wallace Beery The Big House: Breaking Out Human cruelty, as deep a field as it is, has almost never been better exemplified than in America’s prison system. Barbaric conditions are the norm, as men are made to work as essentially…

Blondie Johnson (1933) Review

Jan 4, 2013

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Danny

in 1933, All Reviews, Crime, Glorifying Gangsters, Like, Mocking the Government, Race and/or Blackface, Romance, Speakeasies, Suggestive Imagery, The Depression, Women With Power

Proof That It’s Pre-Code It’s about a lady gangster who takes over a mob through her wits rather than with her body– which is pretty rare for a Pre-Code. She’s vicious, cunning, and makes suckers out of her enemies. Blondie goes into the hospital to visit her gangster cohort who was run down by an…