Pre-Code Vice Films
Pre-Code Hollywood 2: Music, Comedy, Action and Adventure
Pre-Code Hollywood studios spent millions transitioning their medium to sound and other new technologies that brought about major advances in photography, lighting, and set design. But there were still five million unemployed people in the United States and many more just getting by. The studios were losing money, many of them going bankrupt. By 1930 the breadlines were longer than the ticket line...[Read More]
Pre-Code Hollywood: Gangsters, Monsters, and Dames
I must have been about 12 years old when I first saw Tarzan and His Mate. I loved the Tarzan movies. Tarzan was the undisputed King of the Jungle and was the greatest, Cheetah was man’s best friend, Boy was annoying, and Jane was the Queen of the Jungle and a young male’s introduction to the allure of the female. The uncensored version, with a naked Jane silhouetted while changing clothes in a bac...[Read More]