Dishonored
Josef von Sternberg’s pre-code spy romance Dishonored (1931) sees his muse Marlene Dietrich as a Mata Hari type of character spying on the Russians for Austria during WWI. Josef von… Read more »
Tag: 1930s
Mystery Of The Wax Museum
Warner Brothers’ Mystery Of The Wax Museum (1933) was the last feature film to be shot with Technicolor’s two-strip process and remains the artistic pinnacle of that short lived format…. Read more »
Red Noses
Red Noses (1932) is the seventh of forty-one two-reel pre-code comedies produced by Hal Roach in the Girlfriends series. The plot of this particular adventure finds our heroines Miss Pitts… Read more »
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (1930) was the first of two talkies that D.W. Griffith directed. In many ways Abraham Lincoln is more of an apologia than Intolerance (1916) was for the controversial… Read more »
Easy Living
While on her way to work Mary Smith (Jean Arthur) and her hat are clobbered by a defenestrated fur coat. As she goes knocking on doors hoping to return the… Read more »
Drums Along The Mohawk
John Ford’s technicolor frontier epic Drums Along The Mohawk (1939) offered Depression era audiences a sense of relief and inspiration. The film, set in New York during the Revolutionary War,… Read more »
Big Brown Eyes
Although he’s certainly best known for having directed some of the great western and adventure pictures of the classic studio era, filmmaker Raoul Walsh nevertheless excelled in the genre of… Read more »
Extase
Hedy Lamarr, billed as Hedy Kiesler at the time, was only eighteen when she starred in Gustav Machatý’s film Extase (1933). Significant as an early progenitor of Poetic Realism, Extase… Read more »
Murder At The Vanities
Murder At The Vanities (1934) is one of the best known pre-code Hollywood films today, having been featured in the Universal Backlot Series DVD boxed set Pre-Code Hollywood Collection from… Read more »
Mark Of The Vampire
Filmmaker Tod Browning famously conceived of Mark Of The Vampire (1935) as a way to re-make or salvage his now lost silent feature London After Midnight (1927) starring Lon Chaney…. Read more »
