I am offering up Baby Face from 1933 featuring the incomparable Barbara Stanwyck in a torrid, pre-code melodrama that IMDB describes
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standard back then, but the rise of "talkies" in the late 1920s created a new age of Hollywood boundary-pushing."Because of the (relatively) explicit sex and violence in the films of the so-call...
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Love this blog. When you say “tenants” it should be “tenets” and when you say “principals”’it should be “principles.”
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their race, gender or age. In the Wild West that was Pre-Code film-making, many movies introduced social taboos as a draw for audiences. I used to think of that as something sleazy. However, I�...
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with a doomed dinner party and the escape of the pyromaniac cousin locked upstairs.As a product of Pre-Code Hollywood, Whale’s film is surprisingly frank on subjects like religion, class, and ...
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