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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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...Watch Movie
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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...Watch Movie
