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Director Stephen Roberts’s 1933 controversial American pre-Code drama film The Story of Temple Drake stars Miriam Hopkins as the titular character. The Catholic League of Decency set off a successful censorship campaign on Hollywood after Paramount […]
‘SHE’S THE GIRL WHO PUTS THE HONEY IN HONEYMOON!’ Director Frank Tuttle’s 1930 American comedy film Her Wedding Night is based on the play Little Miss Bluebeard by Avery Hopwood, written by Henry Myers, and […]
‘YOU WILL BE SHOCKED by these Clever Coin Chasers.’ Director William Beaudine’s 1932 Three Wise Girls stars Jean Harlow as country bumpkin Cassie, who heads for the big city of New York and takes a […]
Director John Cromwell’s primitive but interesting 1930 early talkie Western film The Texan stars Gary Cooper as a bandit called the Llano Kid who meets con man Thacker (Oscar Apfel), who persuades him to pretend […]
Producer-director Cecil B DeMille returned to the Paramount Pictures studio to make the salacious, eye-popping 1932 black and white historical epic The Sign of the Cross, which he turned into a box-office smash, after shooting […]
Director William Keighley’s 1934 Warner Bros Pre-Code black and white film Easy to Love is an easy-going, skatty romantic comedy, in which a suspicious wife Carol (Genevieve Tobin) pretends that she is having an affair […]
Director Lothar Mendes’s 1931 film Ladies’ Man is a well-crafted romantic melodrama, based on a novel by Rupert Hughes, with a screenplay by Herman J Mankiewicz. It stars William Powell as Jamie Darricott, a Machiavellian […]