Keyword: pre-code

The Guilty Generation
5.7
1931
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A Romeo and Juliet love story between the son of a brutal Italian bootlegger and the daughter of his bitter ex-partner, who is engaged in a blood feud with his one-time friend.


Broadminded
3.4
1931
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Jacks father is sending him away to keep him from gambling, booze, girls, and late nights. He has Ossie go as Jacks companion, not knowing that Ossie does the same things as Jack. They decide to go to California and the trip is long as Jack stops for every girl he sees. In a restaurant in the southwest, they meet Poncho. It seems that every time Ossie sees Pancho, he does something that almost gets him into a fight. When they get to Pasadena, the boys meet Connie and Penny and Aunt Polly. After a few days, Jack proposes and Connie accepts. However, that is that day that Mabel, Jacks jilted fiancée from New York, appears.


New York Nights
4.3
1929
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A chorus girl with marital woes is pursued by a gangster.


Welcome Danger
5.2
1929
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Harold Bledsoe, a botany student, is called back home to San Francisco, where his late father had been police chief, to help investigate a crime wave in Chinatown.


The Man Who Played God
7.7
1932
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After losing his hearing, a musician uses lip-reading to help others.


The Hound of the Baskervilles
6.5
1929
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After the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville, Sherlock Holmes is called in to solve the mystery.


The Prizefighter and the Lady
5.3
1933
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An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title.


Mamba
6
1930
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August Bolte, the richest man in a settlement in German East Africa in the period before World War I, is called Mamba by the locals, which is the name of a deadly snake. Despised by the locals and the European settlers alike for his greed and arrogance, Bolte forces the beautiful daughter of a destitute nobleman to marry him in exchange for saving her father from ruin. Upon her arrival in Africa, she falls in love with an officer in the local German garrison. When World War I breaks out, Bolte, unable to avoid being conscripted, foments a rebellion among the local natives.


Picture Brides
4
1934
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Four Picture Brides, from New Orleans, arrive in the Brazilian jungle on a riverboat, brought there to marry workers at Lottagrasso, a remote mining site of the Standard Diamond Mines.Also on the boat with the four mail-order brides (Americans Mame Smith, Flo Lane, and Gwen from England and Lena from Europe) is Mary Lee, a frightened and innocent girl, who has come to see the mines brutal supervisor, Von Luden , about a job. Knowing von Ludens inhuman reputation, Mame transfers the photo assigning her to Dave Hart, to Marys Identification card. Castro, the mail-runner, delivers a letter to von Luden informing him that Hart, his partner, is wanted in the United States on an embezzlement charge. Mame, in order to protect Mary, presents herself as a job applicant while Mary is introduced to Dave and his fellow supervisors (Pete, Joe and Bill) as a bride applicant. Dave rescues Mary from a lustful and brutish attack by von Luden. Pretty Mataeo Rogers, half-breed daughter of the camps drunken doctor, is celebrating her 18th birthday and is lured to von Ludens jungle castle. Later, natives find her body in the swamp. Detectives Steve and Al arrive to extradite Dave.


Mary Stevens, M.D.
6.9
1933
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Mary Stevens (Kay Francis) and her old friend Don Andrews (Lyle Talbot) graduate from medical school at the same time and decide to set up their respective medical offices in the same building. Mary builds her reputation despite many patients refusing to be treated by a woman. Don, however, starts dating Lois Cavanaugh (Thelma Todd), whose family is rich and influential, and neglects his practice for the privileges of a social life. Despite Marys love for Don, he marries Lois and sets up a new office with a high-class clientele. He also gives Mary a new office right next to his; while she ends up making a name for herself in the medical community, Don begins to pilfer funds from his practice. Jealousy and mistrust drive Mary and Don apart, seemingly for good. Two years later, Mary, now a famous doctor, takes a much-needed vacation and runs into Don, who is on the lam from the authorities. Mary and Don have an affair and Don tries to get a divorce. Lois is willing but her father doesnt want the Cavanaugh name mixed up in any scandal. He clears Dons name and gets all charges against him dropped--on the condition that Don will not divorce Lois for at least six months. When Mary finds herself pregnant by Don and hes unable to marry her, she must decide whether to tell him or raise the child on her own; he cant divorce Lois and their baby dies while on the ship. Very harsh. Mary is caught in the act of suicide and saves a child in the final scene. Mary gains her confidence back and all is good.


Counsellor at Law
6.7
1933
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A successful attorney has his Jewish heritage and poverty-stricken background brought home to him when he learns that his wife has been unfaithful.


Under Eighteen
7.4
1931
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A poor seamstress girl sours on her engagement to a grocery deliveryman after seeing her sisters abusive marriage. Trying to help her sister pay for a divorce lawyer, she turns to a rich playboy she met at work.
