# 🔞 FILMS - PRE-CODE - [x] It Happened One Night (1934) - [x] The Thin Man (1934) - [x] The Most Dangerous Game (1932) - [x] The Invisible Man (1933) - [x] Frankenstein (1931) - [x] Dracula (1931) - [x] The Mummy (1932) - [x] King Kong (1933) - [x] Zombie (1932) - [x] The Black Cat (1934) - [x] Duck Soup (1933) - [x] Sons of the Desert (1933) - [x] I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) - [x] Night Nurse (1931) - [x] Doctor X (1932) - [x] Safe In Hell (1931) - [x] Baby Face (1933) - [x] Thirteen Women (1932) - [x] Three on a Match (1932) - [x] Trouble in Paradise (1932) - [x] Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) - [x] Footlight Parade (1933) - [x] Dinner at Eight (1933) - [x] Horse Feathers (1932) - [x] Red Headed Woman (1932) - [x] Shanghai Express (1932) - [x] The Old Dark House (1932) - [x] The Public Enemy (1931) - [x] Jewel Robbery (1932) - [x] Animal Crackers (1930) - [x] Story of Temple Drake (1933) - [x] Employee’s Entrance (1933) 75m 7.2 - [x] Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) - 98m 7.6 - [x] Red Dust (1932) - 83m 7.3 - [x] The Music Box (1932) - [x] Scarface (1932) - 93m 7.8 - [x] Madam Satan (1930) - 116m 6.5 - [x] Little Caesar (1931) 79m 7.2 - [x] Twentieth Century (1934) 7.4 91m - [x] One Way Passage (1932) 7.5 69m - [x] Design for Living (1933) 7.5 91m - [x] The Gay Divorcee (1934) - [x] The Scarlet Empress (1934) 104m 7.6 - [x] Island of Lost Souls (1932) - 70m 7.4 - [x] Queen Christina (1933) 99m 7.6 - [x] I’m No Angel (1933) 87m 6.9 - [x] Heat Lightning (1934) 7.2 63m - [x] Imitation of Life (1934) 117m 7.5 - [x] Hallelujah (1929) 109m 6.8 - [x] Love Me Tonight (1932) 7.6 104m - [x] The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) - [x] Five Star Final (1931) 7.3 89m - [x] Blonde Venus (1932) 99m 7.1 - [x] Blonde Crazy (1931) 79m 7.1 - [x] Murders in the Zoo (1933) 62m 6.5 - [x] Heroes for Sale (1933) 7.3 76m - [x] Bombshell (1933) - 96m 7.1 - [x] Gabriel Over the White House (1933) - [x] Morocco (1930) 92m 7.1 - [x] Bad Girl (1931) 90m 6.5 - [ ] Call Her Savage (1932) 88m 7.0 - [ ] The Sign of the Cross (1932) 125m 6.9 - [ ] Monkey Business (1931) 77m 7.5 - [ ] Cavalcade (1933) 110m 5.8 - [ ] All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) - 152m 8.0 - [x] Grand Hotel (1932) 118m 7.4 - [ ] Tarzan and His Mate (1934) 104m 7.3 - [ ] A Free Soul (1931) - [ ] The Age of Consent (1932) - [ ] Ladies They Talk About (1933) - [ ] Merrily We Go to Hell (1932) - [ ] One Hour with You (1932) 7.2 78m - [ ] The Cocoanuts (1929) - 93m 7.0 - [ ] Sailor's Luck (1933) 6.6 - [ ] The Bat Whispers (1930) - [ ] Murder at the Vanities (1934) * 99m 6.6 - [ ] I've Got Your Number 6.3 69m - [ ] Platinum Blonde (1931) 89m 6.9 - [ ] Of Human Bondage (1934) 83m 7.1 - [ ] She Done Him Wrong (1933) - 66m 6.3 - [ ] The Dark Hourse (1932) 7.0 75m - [ ] Diplomaniacs (1933) - 61m 6.4 - [ ] The Jazz Singer (1927) 88m 6.5 - [ ] I Am Suzanne! (1933) - [ ] State Fair (1933) - [ ] The Kennel Murder Case (1933) 6.9 73m - [ ] Vampyr (1932) - 75m - [ ] Smarty (1934) * - 65m 5.9 - [ ] Cleopatra (1934) - 102m 6.8 - [ ] The Lost Patrol (1934) 73m 6.8 - [ ] Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934) 68m 6.5 - [ ] Daughter of the Dragon (1931) 70m 6.1 - [ ] A Farewell to Arms (1932) 80m 6.5 - [ ] Possessed (1931) 76m 6.9 - [ ] Bird of Paradise (1932) - [ ] Seed (1931) - [ ] The Divorcee (1930) - [ ] WHOOPEE! (1930) - [ ] The Painted Veil (1934) - [ ] The Big House (1930) - [ ] Me and My Gal (1932) - [ ] Waterloo Bridge (1931) - [ ] Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) - [ ] Elysia Valley of the Nude (1933) - [ ] Maniac (1934) - worst movie ever? - [x] Freaks (1932) Pre-Code Hollywood is the period in American filmmaking between the Silent Era and the institution of the Hays Code (1929-1934) Pre-Code Hollywood Characteristics: * Progressive Ideals * Empowering Women * Gangsters * Social Issues * Monsters and Mayhem * Commentary on the Church Strong female characters were ubiquitous in such pre-Code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pre-Code_films Many of Hollywood's biggest stars such as Clark Gable, Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Blondell, and Edward G. Robinson got their start in the era. Other stars who excelled during this period, however, like Ruth Chatterton (who decamped to England) and Warren William (the so-called "king of Pre-Code", who died in 1948), would wind up essentially forgotten by the general public within a generation Hayes Code - Motion Picture Production Code 1934 to 1954 Although the Code was adopted in 1930, oversight was poor and it did not become rigorously enforced until July 1, 1934. Code began to weaken in the late 1940s 1951, the MPAA revised the code to make it more rigid; the 1951 revisions spelled out more words and subjects that were prohibited By the late 1960s, enforcement had become impossible and the Production Code was abandoned entirely. The MPAA began working on a rating system, under which film restrictions would lessen. 1968 Hayes code dropped https://www.imdb.com/list/ls008945668/?sort=user_rating,desc&st_dt=&mode=detail&page=1 Most commonly cited films for the crackdown: Baby Face Convention City (lost) I’m No Angel Red Headed Woman She Done Him Wrong The Sign of the Cross The Story of Temple Drake Baby Face and Red Headed Woman were both charged with sex and featured their female protagonists, after sleeping their way to the top, getting away with riches and rewards for their ambition. Convention City, now a lost film, featured Warners’ biggest stars at a debauched weekend; it’s most famous gags involved drunk businessmen trying to wrangle a goat up to their hotel rooms. I’m No Angel and She Done Him Wrong were a pair of Mae West movies that won major box office and even accolades– She Done Him Wrong was nominated for Best Picture. But West’s brazen sexual come ons and curvy appeal was viewed as morally unscrupulous. The Sign of the Cross and Story of Temple Drake were both dark dramas about sexual desire and moral decay. I Was a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (LeRoy, 1932) - the film was a commercial, critical, and political success. Audiences responded with outrage at the continued use of chain gangs, and their public outcry directly contributed to its eventual end. https://rarefilm.net/ Jean Harlow (cocktail) https://www.thespruceeats.com/jean-harlow-cocktail-recipe-759712 Call Her Savage is a 1932 pre-Code drama film directed by John Francis Dillon and starring Clara Bow.[1] The film was Bow's second-to-last film role. It is also one of the first portrayals of homosexuals on screen, including a scene in a gay bar.[2][3] Hays Code anti-miscegenation In 1935, Wong was dealt the most severe disappointment of her career, when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer refused to consider her for the leading role of the Chinese character O-Lan in the film version of Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth. MGM instead cast Luise Rainer to play the leading role in yellowface, due to the Hays Code anti-miscegenation rules requiring the wife of a white actor, Paul Muni (ironically playing a Chinese character in yellowface), to be played by a white actress. MGM offered Wong a supporting role of Lotus, the seductress, but she refused on principle. Makeup artists had noticed that audiences were more likely to reject Western actors in Asian disguise if the faces of actual Asians were in near proximity. Rather than cast the film with all Asian actors, which would have then meant no star names to attract American audiences, studios simply eliminated most of the Asian actors from the cast. Flower Drum Song (1961) Ralph Richardson Things to Come (1936), Doctor Zhivago (1965 Throughout his career, and increasingly in later years, Richardson was known for his eccentric behaviour on and off stage. He was often seen as detached from conventional ways of looking at the world, and his acting was regularly described as poetic or magical. Dragon Lady is usually a stereotype of certain East Asian and occasionally South Asian and or Southeast Asian women as strong, deceitful, domineering, mysterious, and often sexually alluring.[1][2] Inspired by the characters played by actress Anna May Wong, The National Legion of Decency — which was staunchly Catholic — and the Hays Code both appeared in the 1930s, and they defined and censored “objectionable content” in motion pictures; as a result, Betty Boop soon began wearing far less revealing clothing. Hayakawa constantly typecast as a villain or forbidden lover and unable to play parts that would be given to white actors such as Douglas Fairbanks In 1930, the Production Code came into effect (enforced after 1934) which forbade portrayals of miscegenation in film. This meant that unless Hayakawa's co-star was an Asian actress, he would not be able to portray a romance with her fake Shemp is someone who appears in a film as a replacement for another actor or person. Flowers and Trees is a 1932 Silly Symphonies https://the-animatorium.blogspot.com/2014/08/ten-strange-scandalous-pre-hays-code.html Tags: films