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The Strange Case of Clara Deane (1932) Review, with Wynne Gibson and Pat O’Brien

Apr 26, 2024

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in 1932, All Reviews, Drama, Justifiable Homicide, Like, Murder Without Consequence, Scantily Clad Women, Slapping Women Around, Suggestive Dialogue

Clara Deane, an ambitious designer, marries a crook and is falsely implicated in a crime. Years later, she looks to reunite with her missing daughter only to run into police interference.

Evenings for Sale (1932) Review, with Herbert Marshall and Mary Boland

Jan 17, 2021

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in 1932, All Reviews, Comedy, Drama, Gold Digging, Like, Scantily Clad Women

Count Franz von Degenthal Herbert Marshall Jenny Kent Mary Boland Lela Fischer Sari Maritza Released by Paramount Directed by Stuart Walker Run time: 66 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “He ought to attract all the unsatisfied ladies of Vienna. Of Europe!” “Don’t forget America. America is full of unsatisfied ladies!” Early in the…

The Phantom President (1932) Review, with George M. Cohan, Claudette Colbert, and Jimmy Durante

Nov 7, 2016

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in 1932, All Reviews, Comedy, Crime Pays, Dislike, Homosexuality, Mocking the Government, Musical, Race and/or Blackface, Swearing

T.K. Blair / Doc Varney George M. Cohan Curly Cooney Jimmy Durante Felicia Hammond Claudette Colbert Released by Paramount | Directed by Norman Taurog Run time: 78 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Cohan puts on blackface for a number. Yay. Sidney Toler puts on yellow face once more. Durante taunts George Barbier’s political…

The Merry Widow (1934) Review, with Maurice Cheavalier and Jeanette MacDonald

Apr 18, 2016

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in 1934, All Reviews, Comedy, Extramarital Sex, Gold Digging, Hookers with Hearts of Gold, Like, Mockery of Marriage, Musical, Premarital Sex, Scantily Clad Women, Suggestive Dialogue, Suggestive Imagery, Women With Power

Danilo Maurice Chevalier Sonia Jeanette MacDonald Ambassador Edward Everett Horton King George Barbier Queen Una Merkel Orderly Sterling Holloway Released by Metro Goldwyn Mayer | Directed by Ernst Lubitsch Proof That It’s Pre-Code-ish How sexually carefree and attractive is the Chevalier character this go around? At a mod Parisian brothel, one patron holds the girl…

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…

Skyscraper Souls (1932) Review

May 24, 2013

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in 1932, All Reviews, Drama, Drinking During Prohibition, Extramarital Sex, Gold Digging, Hookers with Hearts of Gold, Like, Mockery of Marriage, Scantily Clad Women, Slapping Women Around, Suggestive Dialogue, Suicide, Swearing, The Depression

David Dwight … Warren William Lynn … Maureen O’Sullivan Sarah… Verree Teasdale Tom … Norman Foster Jenny … Anita Page Ella Dwight … Hedda Hopper Skyscraper Souls: A Monument to Mankind’s Hubris They laughed at me when I said I wanted a hundred-story building. They said it wouldn’t hold together. But I had the courage…

The Big Pond (1930) Review

May 14, 2013

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in 1930, Academy Awards, All Reviews, Comedy, Drinking During Prohibition, Like, Musical

The Particulars of the Picture Pierre … Maurice Chevalier Barbara Billings … Claudette Colbert Directed by Hobart Henley The Big Pond: You’re Soaking In It “Me? I’m like a good French cheese. Every day I get stronger and stronger!” It took me a while to nail it down, but I finally figured out who Maurice…