At 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and New on Max, This Wild Melodrama Proves Just How Dark Pre-Code Hollywood Could Be

The most exciting time in Hollywood was arguably the ephemeral period before the stingy rules implemented by the industry. Before the adoption of the Hays Code, the guideline that major studios ...
LAist

Feature: A new TCM book shares some Pre-Code classics

Despite only lasting four short years from 1930 to 1934, the pre-code era of Hollywood’s Golden Age produced films that pushed the boundaries of cinema and storytelling, even by today’s standards.
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Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: Pleasures of the pre-code era

About 20 years ago I was in a kind of partnership with another film historian who told me that, no, there wasn’t a market for a book on pre-code movies. I can only wonder what he thinks today after ...
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Cecil B. DeMille’s THE SIGN OF THE CROSS presented by Forbidden Hollywood at Arkadin Cinema

Forbidden Hollywood is a monthly series hosted by STL film critic Katie Carter celebrating the Pre-Code films of the early 1930s, when movies were wild, racy, transgressive, and tons of fun. Deemed ...