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Book Review – “Dangerous Men: Pre-Code Hollywood and The Birth of the Modern Man” by Mick LaSalle

Jun 27, 2016

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So why go back to the movies of the pre-Code era? What’s the point of discovering and watching these films all these years later? The questions are valid. After all, we’re talking about a brief period that ended almost seventy years ago and counting. Most of the films are unknown and don’t even attract nostalgia…

Susan Lenox [Her Fall and Rise] (1931) Review, with Greta Garbo and Clark Gable

Feb 15, 2016

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Danny

in 1931, All Reviews, Crime Pays, Drama, Gold Digging, Hookers with Hearts of Gold, Indifference, Mockery of Marriage, Rape, Slapping Women Around, Suggestive Dialogue, The Depression

Helga/Susan Lenox Greta Garbo Rodney Clark Gable Ohlin Jean Hersholt Released by MGM | Directed by Robert Z. Leonard Proof That It’s Pre-Code Our female lead is threatened with rape and abuse constantly before turning to prostitution and gold digging. Susan Lenox: It’s A Man’s World “I think the most amusing thing about men is…

Night Nurse (1931) Review, with Barbara Stanwyck and Joan Blondell

Jul 12, 2013

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Danny

in 1931, All Reviews, Comedy, Drama, Drinking During Prohibition, Gold Digging, Justifiable Homicide, Like, Murder Without Consequence, Scantily Clad Women, Slapping Women Around, Suggestive Dialogue, Women With Power

Lora Hart … Barbara Stanwyck Maloney … Joan Blondell Nick … Clark Gable Mortie … Ben Lyon Eagan … Edward Nugent Dr. Bell … Charles Winninger Proof That It’s Pre-Code Hoo boy. How long have you got? One orderly snipes at a nurse, “Don’t forget to wash that bedpan, and make it shiny!” In one…

The Secret Six (1931) Review

Jun 28, 2013

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Danny

in 1931, All Reviews, Crime, Drinking During Prohibition, Indifference, Mocking the Government, Speakeasies

Scorpio … Wallace Beery Newton … Lewis Stone Carl … Clark Gable Anne … Jean Harlow Johnny … Ralph Bellamy Peaches … Marjorie Rambeau Proof That It’s Pre-Code It’s a gangster pic with plenty of guns, booze, and broads. Murder is the name of the game, as well as paid seduction and corruption all the…

It Happened One Night (1934) Review

Feb 8, 2013

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Danny

in 1934, Academy Awards, All Reviews, Comedy, Like, Scantily Clad Women, Suggestive Dialogue, The Depression

The Particulars of the Picture Peter Werne … Clark Gable Ellie Andrews … Claudette Colbert Shapeley … Roscoe Karns Gordon … Charles C. Wilson Andrews … Walter Connolly Directed by Frank Capra It Happened One Night: Bringing Down the Walls and Everything Else In Between “I want to see what love looks like when it’s…