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Showing posts with label Pre-Code. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Pre-Code. Show all posts

Monday, June 11, 2012

Capsule Reviews: Other Men's Women, The Lovers on the Bridge, The Lady Eve, The Purchase Price

Other Men's Women (William A. Wellman, 1931) Mary Astor herself called this picture a piece of cheese, but cheddar can be mighty sh...

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy, 1933)

Gold Diggers of 1933 bursts with such energy that it barely gets through its credits before Ginger Rogers enters in close-up singing a show...

Friday, August 12, 2011

Capsule Reviews: The Smiling Lieutenant, Ménilmontant, The Miracle Woman

The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch, 1931) A delightfully wicked musical that puts the Lubitsch touch on full display, The Smiling Lie...

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Baby Face (Alfred E. Green, 1933)

There is something indefinite about Barbara Stanwyck's overpowering effect, a subconscious response triggered by an almost imperceptible...

Monday, June 27, 2011

Blood Money (Rowland Brown, 1933)

Rowland Brown's snarling Pre-Code feature Blood Money was thought lost for decades, perhaps out of wishful thinking for decency's s...

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