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3 things about Stephen Roberts’ THE STORY OF TEMPLE DRAKE [1933]

1. The judge removes a bottle of whiskey from his desk and pours two drinks, one for himself and one for his future son-in-law. During Prohibition.
2. Post-rape catatonia.
3. “Be proud of her. I am!”

#3things #movies #precode #williamfaulkner #cinema

‘Leg-end!’

American actress: Mae Clarke
Movie: ‘Waterloo Bridge’ (1931)

#pinup #precode #hollywood #GoldenAge #monchrome #MaeClarke #WaterlooBridge #stockings #1930s #americana

First up: For #NoirAlley & #Noirvember Noiristas, #PreCode, and #SilentSundayNights #SilentFilm fans

#TCMParty #FilmMastodon #CineMastodon #HappyThanksgiving #Thanksgiving #FilmNoir #BNoirDetour #scifi #Noirvember #DarknessAtNoon #LetterboxdFridays #Letterboxd #comedy #monsterdon #FridayThrillerClub #TVMysteries #HarryOrwell
(2/5)

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS (1929)

NSFW

#nsfw #aiphotography #cinema #aiart #precode #cinemastodon #movies #eroticart #hollywood #tcmparty #aiimages #filmastodon #erotic #vintageporn #blackandwhite #classicfilms #vintagepornography #aigen #noir

THE DIVORCEE (1930)

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#nsfw #cinema #film #precode #earlycinema #earlyfilm #noir #vintagepornography #vintageporn #aiphotography #aiart #eroticart #aiimages #art #nsfwart #femalenudity #erotic #photo #imagefx #agegap #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography

Unearthed pre-code film frame, 1930.

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#nsfw #film #cinema #photography #vintagephotography #vintagephoto #vintageporn #aiart #cinemastodon #movies #eroticart #precode #aiporn #aiphotography #aiimages #classicfilm #filmastodon #erotic #classicmovies #cmnf #blackandwhite #nsfwart #femalenudity

THE UNHOLY THREE (1925)

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"Boys Will Be Boys"

Wonder Bar (1934) starring Al Jolson, May Francis + Dolores Del Rio was a pre-code film released just before the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines (known as the Hays Code) were adaped more rigorously. This scene in particular is often sited as an example of the 'Pansy Craze' - a term coined in 1994 - referring to a period in the late 1920s + early 30s when homosexual visibility in stage + film was increasing.

#boyswillbeboys #aljolson #wonderbar #pansycraze #hayscode #censorship #visibility #precode #precodefilm #film #kino #cinema #filmclip

IN OTHER NEWS

you know what’s something so rare these days it’s quite shocking to see in these #preCode 1920s and 30s movies? older women ―and by old, i mean women who are seemingly in their 50s and older― having the times of their lives banging their way thru life… or Europe.

there was a time when fascist #puritanism wasn’t the rule in American culture. don’t let the fascists gaslight you.

puritans and fascists have always been the lying minority.

The dazzlingly fabulous costumes in “Madam Satan” were designed by none other than Adrian
#TCMParty #MadamSatan #PreCode #Adrian #KayJohnson #TheodoreKosloff #LillianRoth

Week-End Marriage (AKA Working Wives) a fine 1932 pre-code film combines comedy and romantic melodrama. Loretta Young has to choose between two men. Takes career vs marriage problems for women seriously. A film that enrages some modern viewers.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/07/week-end-marriage-1932.html

#30smovie #30smovies #1930smovie #1930smovies #precode #precodemovie #precodemovies #precodehollywood #LorettaYoung

In Road To Paradise (1930) Loretta Young is delightful playing dual roles as a wealthy socialite and an orphan with a paranormal ability. Cheerfully pre-code with an indifference to the law. It's OK for pretty girls to break the law. Good fun.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/07/road-to-paradise-1930.html

#30smovie #30smovies #1930smovie #1930smovies #precode #precodemovie #precodemovies #precodehollywood #LorettaYoung

The Truth About Youth (1930), a sex comedy/melodrama with cute as a button Loretta Young as the good girl facing fierce competition for her man from gold digger Myrna Loy (in full-on Sexy Bad Girl mode). Very pre-code and great fun.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-truth-about-youth-1930.html

#30smovie #30smovies #1930smovie #1930smovies #precode #precodemovie #precodemovies #precodehollywood #LorettaYoung #MyrnaLoy #melodrama

One Night at Susie’s is an OK 1930 pre-code crime/romantic melodrama. Very pre-code. The theatre world is depicted in all its sleazy reality. The plot has more holes than a hoodlum who’s just been ventilated by a machine gun.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/06/one-night-at-susies-1930.html

#30smovie #30smovies #1930smovie #1930smovies #precode #precodemovie #precodemovies #precodehollywood #douglasfairbanksjr #billiedove #melodrama

Millie (1931) - Everyone in this film is enamored with Millie! Listen and find out if Christopher and Lydia are as taken with this 1931 pre-code drama. #PodNation #Podcast #PublicDomain #MovieReview #PublicDomainMovie #PreCode #PreCodeHollywood

https://www.orphanedentertainment.com/millie-1931/

The Painted Veil, a 1934 Greta Garbo romantic melodrama. Based on a Somerset Maugham story. The introduction of the Production Code earlier in 1934 results in characters whose behaviours make no sense but it looks good and Garbo is terrific.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-painted-veil-1934.html

#30smovie #30smovies #1930smovie #1930smovies #precode #precodemovie #precodemovies #precodehollywood #GretaGarbo #romance #romancemovie #romancemovies #melodrama #wSomersetMaugham

Huns, I spotted my first swifts today and it's about 8495739 trillion degrees above average. I need some #rain.

Sweating it out with Joan Crawford and Walter Huston. #NowWatching Rain (1932).

#FilmDinner #LewisMilestone #JoanCrawford #WalterHuston #precode #cinemastodon #film

The Crowd Roars (1932), a Howard Hawks race-car melodrama. Also deals with the uneasy dynamics that develop when a woman enters this male world. Very Hawksian. Grown-up action movie with some depth. James Cagney and Joan Blondell are terrific.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-crowd-roars-1932.html

#30smovie #30smovies #1930smovie #1930smovies #precode #precodemovie #precodemovies #precodehollywood #HowardHawks #JamesCagney #JoanBlondell

– It's spooky! It sounds… unholy!

#OnThisDate, May 6, The Unholy Three (Tod Browning, 1925) is the #FilmDuJour. #USA #PreCode #TodBrowning #LonChaney #HarryEarles #SilentFilm #film #cinema #CineMastodon @film #1920s ★★★½

The Story of Temple Drake (1933), one of the most notorious of all Hollywood pre-code movies. Temple Drake likes playing dangerous games with men. Stylistically bizarre southern gothic melodrama, very outrageous and deliberately provocative.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-story-of-temple-drake-1933.html

#30smovie #30smovies #1930smovie #1930smovies #precode #precodemovie #precodemovies #precodehollywood #MirianHopkins #WiliiamFaulkner

42nd Street (1933), arguably the greatest musical of them all. Hardboiled, sexy, sassy, snappy plus those Busby Berkeley production numbers. It's like a delicious cocktail but with enough hard liquor in it to give it a real kick. Movie magic.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/04/42nd-street-1933.html

#30smovie #30smovies #1930smovie #1930smovies #precode #precodemovie #precodemovies #precodehollywood #BusbyBerkeley #GingerRogers #RubyKeeler #UnaMerkel #musicals #hollywoodmusical #hollywoodmusicals

It's a pre-code movie and Bebe Daniels and Joan Blondell are in it, but sadly MY PAST (1931) just doesn't quite make it. It does have some pre-code naughtiness but comes across as slightly unpleasant. I just didn't like these people.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/04/my-past-1931.html

#30smovie ##30smovies #1930smovie #1930smovies #precode #precodemovie #precodemovies #precodehollywood #BebeDaniels #JoanBlondell

The Last Flight (1931) is a fascinating nicely unpredictable pre-code exercise in post-war angst. Perhaps the most successful attempt at existentialism on film. Two flyers return from the war, now they're going nowhere and they’re in a hurry.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-last-flight-1931.html

#30smovie ##30smovies #1930smovie #1930smovies #precode #precodemovie #precodemovies #precodehollywood #RichardBarthelmess #DavidManners #HelenChandler #existentialism

The Right to Romance is a 1933 pre-code melodrama. Peggy is a top plastic surgeon but she wants more - she wants romance. She finds herself a handsome irresponsible playboy. A good film that takes a grown-up look at complex emotional issues.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-right-to-romance-1933.html

#30smovie ##30smovies #1930smovie #1930smovies #precode #precodemovie #precodemovies #precodehollywood #AnnHarding #RobertYoung

Trangression, a 1931 romance melodrama. A wife finds temptation in Paris while her husband is in India on business. Ricardo Cortez is fun as a caddish womaniser. It's Cortez and the wonderful Kay Francis who make this one worth seeing.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/03/trangression-1931.html

#30smovie ##30smovies #1930smovie #1930smovies #precode #precodemovie #precodemovies #precodehollywood #KayFrancis #RicardoCortez

Heat Lightning is a deliciously overheated overwrought 1934 pre-code sex melodrama with just a dash of film noir. Two crooks create emotional and sexual tensions in a desert truck stop. Aline MacMahon, Ann Dvorak, Glenda Farrell star.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/03/heat-lightning-1934.html

#30smovie #30smovies #1930smovie #1930smovies #classicmovie #classicmovies #precode #precodemovie #precodemovies #precodehollywood #melodrama #filmnoir #AlineMacMahon #AnnDvorak #GlendaFarrell

Bright Lights (AKA Adventures in Africa) is a fascinating pre-code oddity, a backstage musical with romance and murder. Lightweight breezy fun, a fine showcase for star Dorothy Mackaill. The Cannibal Love musical number is a highlight.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2012/08/bright-lights-1930.html

#30smovie #30smovies #1930smovie #1930smovies #classicmovie #classicmovies #precode #precodemovie #precodemovies #precodehollywood #DorothyMackaill #backstagemusical #backstagemusicals #hollywoodmusicals

Downstairs (1932) is an excellent hard-hitting pre-code melodrama with John Gilbert in top form as a deliciously slimy cad obsessed with women and money. Lots of pre-code sexual frankness here, and a very pre-code ending.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/03/downstairs-1932.html

#30smovie #30smovies #1930smovie #1930smovies #classicmovie #classicmovies #precode #precodemovie #precodemovies #precodehollywood #melodrama #JohnGilbert #VirginiaBruce #PaulLukas

Mandalay (1934) belongs to a sub-genre I dearly love, the pre-code tropical melodrama. With Kay Francis as a high-class hooker and sexual adventuress. She wears fabulous slinky 30s dresses. She’s at the top of her game here. Great movie.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/03/mandalay-1934.html

#30smovie #30smovies #1930smovie #1930smovies #classicmovie #classicmovies #precode #precodemovie #precodemovies #precodehollywood #melodrama #melodramas #KayFrancis #MichaelCurtiz

Ann Vickers, a 1933 melodrama with Irene Dunne as a social reformer. There's lots of pre-code sexual content but this a movie that bludgeons us relentlessly with a social message. Amazingly it features a bad performance by Walter Huston. Avoid.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/02/ann-vickers-1933.html

#30smovie #30smovies #1930smovie #1930smovies #classicmovie #classicmovies #precode #precodemovie #precodemovies #precodehollywood #melodrama #IreneDunne #WalterHuston

Thirteen Women (1932) is a crime melodrama/horror film. Twelve women, former schoolfriends, receive warnings from an Indian mystic. Myrna Loy gets the juicy sexy bad girl role and she's terrific. Fun, with subtle occult hints.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/02/thirteen-women-1932.html

#30smovie #30smovies #1930smovie #1930smovies #classicmovie #classicmovies #precode #precodemovie #precodemovies #precodehollywood #horrormovie #horrormovies #occult #IreneDunne #MyrnaLoy #RicardoCortez

Bachelor Apartment is a breezy 1931 pre-code sex comedy/bedroom farce starring Irene Dunne. Plenty of mild pre-code naughtiness here with the suggestion that maybe illicit sex is no big deal. Genuinely amusing and charming.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/02/bachelor-apartment-1931.html

#30smovie #30smovies #1930smovie #1930smovies #classicmovie #classicmovies #precode #precodemovie #precodemovies #precodehollywood #IreneDunne

This Man Is Mine is a 1934 pre-code comedy/melodrama. Very pre-code, sophisticated, cynical. Irene Dunne's marriage is threatened by her husband's scheming ex. Dunne and Kay Johnson are terrific and wear amazing gowns. Delightful film.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/02/this-man-is-mine-1934.html

#30smovie #30smovies #1930smovie #1930smovies #classicmovie #classicmovies #precode #precodemovie #precodemovies #precodehollywood #RalphBellamy #IreneDunne #KayJohnson #melodrama #romanticcomedy #romanticcomedies

#Bales2023FilmChallenge December 3: hugged on #LetsHugDay

Nanon (#JoanCrawford) is mortally afraid of men. Of their grabbing, grasping, groping hands. She only trust knife thrower Alonzo the Armless (#LonChaney) but he and accomplice (#TufeiFilhela) use the #circus to hide from the long arm of the law. Who'd suspect an armless man? The Unknown (1927) is arguably #TodBrowning and Chaney Sr's pinnacle of silent #precode #horror. 14 minutes are still missing. Check your attic!

#film #cinema @film

– Get the #OuijaBoard.
– It's got the Bible on top of it, keeping it quiet.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge November 19: play a #boardgame on #PlayMonopolyDay

Two neat little ladies playing that quirky 1891 novelty game in #RolandWest's The Bat Whispers (1930) summon the aforementioned bat, black-clad fiend and #Batman predecessor. Who is he? What does he want? And how can he be stopped? Do you know the answer?

YES                 NO
      GOOD B Y E

#PreCode #film #cinema #CineMastodon @film

Trader Horn (1931) was the first major movie shot on location in Africa. It cost a fortune but was a major hit. It’s a jungle girl adventure. Nina is a blonde gorgeous sexy European girl brought up in the jungle. Visually spectacular but slow.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/11/trader-horn-1931.html

#classicmovie #classicmovies #30smovie #30smovies #1930smovie #1930smovies #precode #precodemovie #precodemovies #precodehollywood #goldenagehollywood #junglegirl #junglegirls

Lili Damita stars in The Woman Between, a fine 1931 pre-code melodrama. A young man doesn't realise he's fallen in love with his stepmother, whom he's never met. It's a pre-code film so it deals with the situation in a realistic grown-up way.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-woman-between-1931.html

#classicmovie #classicmovies #30smovie #30smovies #1930smovie #1930smovies #melodrama #precode #precodemovie #precodemovies #precodehollywood #goldenagehollywood

The Secret 6 (1931), an MGM pre-code gangster movie with added vigilante justice elements. MGM's gangster movies had a flavour of their own. Fast-paced and very violent, with star-making performances by Jean Harlow and Clark Gable. Good stuff.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-secret-6-1931.html

#classicmovie #classicmovies #30smovies #1930smovie #1930smovies #goldenagehollywood #precode #precodehollywood #precodemovie #precodemovies #JeanHarlow #gangstermovie #gangstermovies #ClarkGable #WallaceBeery

The most lurid pre-code movie genre was the lust in the jungle movie, and the sleaziest and most over-the-top of them was Kongo (1932). Sweaty and scuzzy and sleazy, a totally mad depraved movie but it’s inspired madness and it's wonderful.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/09/kongo-1932.html

#classicmovie #classicmovies #30smovie #30smovies #1930smovie #1930smovies #goldenagehollywood #precode #precodehollywood #precodemovie #precodemovies #WalterHuston #precodecinema

“Heroes for Sale” (1933) — Good William Wellman drama about a WW1 vet’s misadventures up to the present (the height of the depression). What this film does to Loretta Young’s character is, well… not expected!

#Hollywood #WilliamWellman #PreCode

State’s Attorney is a 1932 melodrama. John Barrymore is a hotshot lawyer who defends gangsters and a likeable streetwalker with whom he falls in love. There’s plenty of pre-code content. An enjoyable mix of courtroom drama, humour and romance.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/09/states-attorney-1932.html

#classicmovie #classicmovies #30smovie #30smovies #1930smovie #1930smovies #goldenagehollywood #precode #precodehollywood #precodemovie #precodemovies #JohnBarrymore #HelenTwelvetrees

Remembering Violet Mary Klotz, a.k.a. #MaeClarke (1910-92), the American film, theatre and television actor, born in Philadelphia #OnThisDay. In Hollywood from 1929, she was unforgettably mistreated by James Cagney in #ThePublicEnemy (1931) and #LadyKiller (1933) and immortalised as Colin Clive's bride in her second collaboration with James Whale, #Frankenstein (1931).

#BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD #UniversalMonsters #GothicHorror #WarnerGangsters #PreCode

Torch Singer (1933), a pre-code melodrama. A singing star searches for her lost daughter. A bit sentimental for my tastes but Claudette Colbert makes anything worth seeing (and she wears some stunning gowns). In its own way it's quite pre-code.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/08/torch-singer-1933.html

#classicmovie #classicmovies #goldenagehollywood #1930smovie #1930smovies #precode #precodehollywood #precodemovie #precodemovies #ClaudetteColbert

The 1929 version of The Letter might not be as good as the 1940 version and it doesn't have Bette Davis but it is pre-code so it's much more salacious and sexually honest and Jeanne Eagels' performance is outrageous. It's worth a look.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-letter-1929.html

#classicmovie #classicmovies #goldenagehollywood #1920smovie #1920smovies #precode #precodehollywood #precodemovie #precodemovies #JeanneEagels #WSomersetMaugham

Lewis Milestone’s tropical melodrama Rain (1932), based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham. The story of a power struggle between a prostitute (Joan Crawford) and a preacher man (Walter Huston). One of the essential pre-code movies.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/05/rain-1932-blu-ray-review.html

#precodehollywood #precodemovies #precode #classicmovies #classicmovie #1930smovie #goldenagehollywood #JoanCrawford #WalterHuston #WSomersetMaugham Maugham #LewisMilestone

MGM's The Beast of the City (1932), most hard-edged and violent of all 30s gangster movies. Based on a W. R. Burnett story. Walter Huston is chilling as the obsessed cop. Jean Harlow, unconstrained by the Production Code, sizzles as a bad girl.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-beast-of-city-1932.html

#gangstermovies #gangstermovie #precodehollywood #precodemovies #precode #classicmovies #classicmovie #1930smovie #goldenagehollywood #WRBurnett #WalterHuston #JeanHarlow

Here for “The Public Enemy”
#TCMParty #ThePublicEnemy
.#PreCode

Friday has films with gowns designed by Adrian. For #PreCode fans:A Lady's Morals, Red Dust, Grand Hotel and Madame Satan. For #TCMUnderground fans: Madame Satan. In honor of #NBAAllStarWeekend/corporate ✨synergy✨ TCM will be showing basketball films in prime time. #TCMUnderground has a late start with Jack Nicholson’s directorial debut+Shake Hands With Danger and other shorts.
(for a more in-depth look at Friday’s schedule please see my newsletter:
https://tinyletter.com/analgesicsleep/letters/tcm-schedule-for-friday-february-17-2023-newsletter-90)
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Is Roy del Ruth's 1931 precode version of The Maltese Falcon better than John Huston's celebrated 1941 remake? I think it is, although I like both.

Ricardo Cortez is a better Sam Spade than Bogart, and Bebe Daniels is definitely better than Mary Astor.

With its cheerful immorality the '31 version is closer in spirit to Hammett's novel.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2022/12/roy-del-ruths-maltese-falcon-1931.html

#BebeDaniels #SamSpade #classicmovies #precodemovies #PreCodeHollywood #precode #RicardoCortez #filmnoir #dashiellhammett

Joan Crawford in Rain (1932). Her career-best performance and Rain is one of the three or four best of all the pre-code movies. A battle of wills between a prostitute and a preacher (played by Walter Huston).

Based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham.

#precode #PreCodeHollywood #JoanCrawford #WSomersetMaugham #FilmMastodon #classicmovies #WalterHuston