Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "pre code film"

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The Story of Temple Drake *** (1933, Miriam Hopkins, Jack La Rue) – Classic Movie Review 11,927

Director Stephen Roberts’s 1933 controversial American pre-Code drama film The Story of Temple Drake stars Miriam Hopkins as the titular character. The Catholic League of Decency set off a successful censorship campaign on Hollywood after Paramount […]

Feb, 12

Her Wedding Night *** (1930, Clara Bow, Ralph Forbes, Charles Ruggles, Richard ‘Skeets’ Gallagher) – Classic Movie Review 11,047

‘SHE’S THE GIRL WHO PUTS THE HONEY IN HONEYMOON!’ Director Frank Tuttle’s 1930 American comedy film Her Wedding Night is based on the play Little Miss Bluebeard by Avery Hopwood, written by Henry Myers, and […]

Mar, 26

Three Wise Girls *** (1932, Jean Harlow, Mae Clarke, Marie Prevost, Walter Byron) – Classic Movie Review 10,476

‘YOU WILL BE SHOCKED by these Clever Coin Chasers.’ Director William Beaudine’s 1932 Three Wise Girls stars Jean Harlow as country bumpkin Cassie, who heads for the big city of New York and takes a […]

Oct, 28

The Texan *** (1930, Gary Cooper, Fay Wray, Emma Dunn, Oscar Apfel, James A Marcus) – Classic Movie Review 10,265

Director John Cromwell’s primitive but interesting 1930 early talkie Western film The Texan stars Gary Cooper as a bandit called the Llano Kid who meets con man Thacker (Oscar Apfel), who persuades him to pretend […]

Sep, 05

The Sign of the Cross *** (1932, Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, Elissa Landi, Charles Laughton) – Classic Movie Review 10,237

Producer-director Cecil B DeMille returned to the Paramount Pictures studio to make the salacious, eye-popping 1932 black and white historical epic The Sign of the Cross, which he turned into a box-office smash, after shooting […]

Aug, 29

Easy to Love *** (1934, Genevieve Tobin, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Astor, Edward Everett Horton, Guy Kibbee, Patricia Ellis, Hugh Herbert) – Classic Movie Review 9897

Director William Keighley’s 1934 Warner Bros Pre-Code black and white film Easy to Love is an easy-going, skatty romantic comedy, in which a suspicious wife Carol (Genevieve Tobin) pretends that she is having an affair […]

Jun, 12

Ladies’ Man ** (1931, William Powell, Kay Francis, Carole Lombard) – Classic Movie Review 9876

Director Lothar Mendes’s 1931 film Ladies’ Man is a well-crafted romantic melodrama, based on a novel by Rupert Hughes, with a screenplay by Herman J Mankiewicz. It stars William Powell as Jamie Darricott, a Machiavellian […]

Jun, 08

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