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Pre-Code
see all genres ›Snappy, urban, cynical innuendo (verbal and otherwise) infuse Pre-Code films with nefarious flair missing from the era that immediately followed. Moralists already horrified by Hollywood's alleged on/off-screen licentiousness campaigned for 1934's censorious Production Code, a list that severely restricted grown-up content for decades. But for a few delicious post-silent years, the movies remained unfettered and sassy as hell.
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Genres / Classic / Pre-Code
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Be Yourself
Comic chanteuse Fannie Brice stars as a nightclub singer in love with a thick-witted boxer (Robert Armstrong) in this delightful musical from the dawn of the talkies. Highlighted by five musical numbers co-written by Billy Rose (including "When a Woman Loves a Man"), BE YOURSELF showcases the unique blend of sophisticated...Start your free trial to watch
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Hell Harbor
A Caribbean island harbor is the exquisite backdrop for treachery and romance as Anita (Lupe Velez), a descendant of the infamous Morgan the Pirate, gets in the middle of a dispute between her father Harry (Gibson Gowland), who has killed a man, and grimy pearl trader Horngold (Jean Hersholt), who witnessed the crime and...Start your free trial to watch
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Jungle Bride
Two women and two men are shipwrecked on an island off the African coast, and take up housekeeping and other forms of dilly-dally in this definite pre-Code film. Charles Starrett (pre-DURANGO KID) has his way with Anita Page, or is it the other way around?Start your free trial to watch
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The Most Dangerous Game
THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME is a superb, Pre-Code action/adventure film. Based upon a famous short story by Richard Connell, it follows big game hunter Bob Rainsford (Joel McCrea) as he becomes quarry for another, the opulently deranged Count Zaroff (floridly played by Leslie Banks). Utilizing some of the...Start your free trial to watch
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The Sin of Nora Moran
A weird and wonderful slab of homegrown surrealism, THE SIN OF NORA MORAN’s surprisingly complex narration and florid montage editing makes it well-deserving of the UCLA Festival of Preservation’s accolades as “haunting, hallucinatory, artistic, exploitative…maybe the best Hollywood B-movie of the 1930s.”...Start your free trial to watch
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Sing, Sinner, Sing
This lively Pre-Code mix of music and melodrama crams a lot, stretching from gambling-ship revelry to Death Row, into its short feature runtime. Lela Larson (Leila Hyams) is the star blonde torch singer on Queen of Joy, “the floating Monte Carlo.” When she witnesses a shipboard murder her thuggish...Start your free trial to watch