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• Pre-Code Essentials: Female (1933)

  

  PlotAlison Drake (Ruth Chatterton) spends her days running a car manufacturer and her nights seducing any man who catches her eye. Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Pre-Code Essentials: Tarzan and His Mate (1934)

  

  PlotSome time has passed since Jane (Maureen O’Sullivan) gave up on civilization style to live in the African wilderness with Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) and sh... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Pre-Code Essentials: Union Depot (1932)

  

  PlotAfter getting out of jail, Chick Miller (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) heads over to the train station and hits the jackpot when he finds an abandoned suitcase... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Pre-Code Essentials: I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)

  

  PlotAfter coming home from World War I, James Allen (Paul Muni) has a hard time readjusting to civilian life. His old job bores him and he has a hard time... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Pre-Code Essentials: Trouble in Paradise (1932)

  

  PlotWhen pickpocket Lily (Miriam Hopkins) meets notorious thief Gaston Monescu (Herbert Marshall), it’s love at first heist. They meet in Venice, where they... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Pre-Code Essentials: Ladies They Talk About (1933)

  

  PlotNan Taylor (Barbara Stanwyck) is part of a gang of bank robbers and when she gets arrested after a robbery, she turns to her childhood friend David Slade... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Pre-Code Essentials: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)

  

  PlotDr. Henry Jekyll (Fredric March) is a very highly respected doctor in London and is extremely dedicated to his patients. He also believes that deep down,... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood

  

  In the early 1920s, Hollywood and the film industry was being rocked to its core by scandal. Between the death of actress Olive Thomas and the ongoing murder... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Pre-Code Essentials: The Public Enemy (1931)

  

  PlotEven from a young age, it was abundantly clear that Tom Powers (James Cageny) wasn’t on the path to being a law-abiding citizen. Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Pre-Code Essentials: Blonde Venus (1932)

  

  PlotHelen Faraday (Marlene Dietrich) gives up being a showgirl to marry American scientist Ned (Herbert Marshall) and become a housewife and mother to their... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Pre-Code Essentials: Midnight Mary (1933)

  

  PlotMary Martin (Loretta Young) just can’t get a break in life. She was orphaned as a child and spent time in reform school for a crime she didn’t commit. Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Pre-Code Essentials: The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)

  

  PlotAustrian Royal Guard Lieutenant Niki von Preyn (Maurice Chevalier) is madly in love with violinist Franzi (Claudette Colbert), but when the royal family fro... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Pre-Code Essentials: Skyscraper Souls (1932)

  

  PlotThere are only two things bank owner David Dwight (Warren William) cares about: women and his hundred story skyscraper in New York City. Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Pre-Code Essentials: Blonde Crazy (1931)

  

  PlotBert Harris (James Cagney) is a hotel bellhop by day and runs gambling and bootlegging rackets by night. When Anne Roberts (Joan Blondell) shows up at the... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Pre-Code Essentials: Jewel Robbery (1932)

  

  PlotBaroness Teri von Horhenfels (Kay Francis) seems like the kind of woman that has it all. Or at least she would have it all if her husband weren’t so... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Pre-Code Essentials: Dancing Lady (1933)

  

  PlotWhen wealthy playboy Tod Newtwon (Franchot Tone) goes to take in a show at a two-bit burlesque hall, he happens to be there the same night the police raid... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Pre-Code Essentials: Frankenstein (1931)

  

  PlotYoung scientist Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) thinks he has stumbled unto the secret for bringing the dead back to life. Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• What’s on TCM: November 2014

  

  Happy November, everyone! October was a great month with all of those horror movies and I’m sorry to see Halloween season drawing to a close, but TCM has some... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• It’s Back!

  

  Returning for a fifth year is my annual 30 Days of Pre-Codes post-a-day marathon! However, this year will be a little bit different from past years. In the past... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Universal Classic Monsters: The Essentials Blu-Ray Collection

  

  Artwork for the US versionSimply put, if you love watching classic horror films around Halloween, you’re going to want the Universal Classic Monsters: The... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES