At 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and New on Max, This Wild Melodrama Proves Just How Dark Pre-Code Hollywood Could Be

The most exciting time in Hollywood was arguably the ephemeral period before the stingy rules implemented by the industry. Before the adoption of the Hays Code, the guideline that major studios ...
KPBS

New Film Geeks Series Focuses On Pre-Code Hollywood

KPBS film critic Beth Accomando will be Procope presenting a film series on PRI code Hollywood this year. Digital gym cinema to provide a definition of what this era was all about. She speaks with ...
collider

10 Best Pre-Code Comedies, Ranked

David is a Senior Editor at Collider focused primarily on Lists. His professional journey began in the mid-2010s as a Marketing specialist before embarking on his writing career in the 2020s. At ...
Los Angeles Times

Code red alert

Parents, lock up your children. Wives, keep a wary eye on your husbands. “Baby Face” is coming to town. More specifically, the uncensored version of the profane Holy Grail of pre-Code Hollywood cinema ...
Los Angeles Times

Back when Hollywood played it fast and sassy

PRE-CODE is back. For the third time in less than five years, the UCLA Film & Television Archive has come up with a series devoted to this most exciting era of American film, a time when movies were ...
KPBS

Examining The Racial Stereotypes Of 1932's 'The Mask Of Fu Manchu'

"The Mask of Fu Manchu" screens as part of the Breaking the Commandments: Pre-Code Hollywood film series at Digital Gym Cinema. It stars Boris Karloff as the evil Asian title character and that raises ...
collider

At 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and New on Max, This Wild Melodrama Proves Just How Dark Pre-Code Hollywood Could Be

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...