Pre Code Movies

An unemployed reporter, fired because of his drinking, takes a job at an advertising agency. Drama.

A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhattan.

A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled, after which she gives...

Policeman Edgar Kennedy is told by his chief he better stop a string of burglaries that have been happening on his watch or else he will get the...

Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss....

A bachelor millionaire on a cruise is protected by a friend from the avid attentions of a crowd of husband (and fortune) seeking girls.

One of the last of the silent Sherlock films.

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...

Nora Moran, a young woman with a difficult and tragic past, is sentenced to die for a murder that she did not commit. She could easily reveal the...

Donald Ingals and his wife Eunice are conventional and loving parents who are shocked when their son Bradley comes home from college with ideas that...

A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.

A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.

Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.

Soon after being wed, American heiress Lady Pearl Grayston realizes her husband has married her for her money and is keeping a mistress. The two...

Zeigfeld Follies beauty Peggy marries an older man, C. Morton Gibson. Although she soon grows tired of their sedate life, she refuses the attentions...

A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.

This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series of devastating losses.

Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.

A young woman goes undercover to gather evidence to free her boyfriend, an attorney who has been framed for a murder he didn't commit.

A princess is forced to choose between a charming tutor and a rakish prince.