Pre Code Movies

A young girl gets involved with a crowd that smokes marijuana, drinks and has sex. She winds up an alcoholic, pregnant drug addict and is forced to...

Ruth Raymond works on the telephone switchboard of a large NYC office building. One day, a private detective informs her that she is actually the...

A young, innocent small-town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted, and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a...

This was a screen version of the 1925 operetta by Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Herbert Stohart, and George Gershwin. The story of the movie is...

In a Vienna apartment building, a handsome but conceited actor terrorizes a neighboring family into moving out. However, when he's found murdered,...

A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.

Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff Pat...

An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.

A young man falls into the clutches of a nightclub singer who corrupts him.

The Warrior's Husband is a satire of the male and female roles in society set in 800 B.C.. Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) rules Pontus with...

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss.

Four "Picture Brides", from New Orleans, arrive in the Brazilian jungle on a riverboat, brought there to marry workers at Lottagrasso, a remote...

The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.

Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie accidentally kills the man they were setting up. Eddie...

Reporter Miss Lee is looking for a story and approaches George White as he's assembling the latest edition of his famous revue. As it turns out, she...

When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later,...

A Chinese troupe star and the Grand Duke's adjutant fall in love, to tensions from both sides' respective comrades.

Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with the farmer's daughter who at first is unaware of his...

Not-so-smart chatterbox Dulcy Parker does and says all the wrong things, but they right themselves to prove she's not so dumb after all.