Keyword: pre-code

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1931

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Elsie sets out for a holiday in Paris and develops an affair while her husband spends a year working in India.

Tarzan The Ape Man

7.2

1932

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A trader and his daughter set off in search of the fabled graveyard of the elephants in deepest Africa, only to encounter a wild man raised by apes.

Employees' Entrance

7.2

1933

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A working girl is menaced by her tyrannical employer.

My Sin

6.2

1931

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Acquitted of murder charges, Carlotta moves to New York to start a new life.

Lord Byron of Broadway

7

1930

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A tunesmith, a user and an out-and-out heel, puts the stories of his broken romances into song, turning old love letters into lyrics, and capitalizing on the death of his best friend to turn it into the subject of a tear-jerker that turns into a hit.

Air Hostess

5.8

1933

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In World War I, pilot Bob King is shot and killed in France. His friends Ted Lucky Hunter (James Murray) and Pa Kearns (J.M. Kerrigan) pledge to look after his daughter Kitty (Evalyn Knapp).[Note 3] Years later, after the war, Kearns is now blind and works at an airport as an engine expert and Kitty is a TWA stewardess. Her fathers friends still look after her as meddling chaperones. A grandstanding Ted flies over the airport, meeting Kitty who is enamored with him. After a night on the town, he flies her back to the airport, but is met by angry mechanics and pilot Dick Miller (Arthur Pierson), who is in love with Kitty, and ends up in a fight. Ted soon announces his marriage to Kitty and forces her to quit her job, which Dick gets back for her when Ted is unable to make a living. Rich, thrice-divorced Sylvia Carleton (Thelma Todd) offers Ted a chance to build a radical new aircraft that can fly across the Pacific. A tête-à-tête between Ted and Sylvia in Albuquerque turns into a fiasco when Kitty and Dick arrive to find them both drunk. Kitty leaves angrily for home, boarding a train that Ted and Dick learn is headed for a collapsing bridge. Both men try to save Kitty by flying to warn the engineer. Ted crash-lands on the tracks and wrecks his aircraft, but stops the train in time. Dick flies him back to the hospital with Kitty, and the couple reunites.

Ladies of Leisure

6.5

1930

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An upper-crust artist hires a party girl as a model; romance follows.

The Merry Widow

7.4

1934

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When a small kingdoms main taxpayer leaves for Paris, its king dispatches a dashing count to win back her allegiance.

Betty Boop's Penthouse

7.2

1933

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While Bimbo and Koko admire Betty, their experiment becomes a monster.

Hell's House

6.3

1932

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Jimmy idolizes bootlegger Matt, and when he refuses to implicate his friend, he is sent to reform school. He befriends Shorty, a boy with a heart condition, and escapes to let the world know about the brutal conditions.

The Big Pond

5.8

1930

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A tour guide in Venice romances a visiting American tourist whose father owns a chewing-gum factory back in the U.S. She sets out to convince her skeptical father to bring the tour guide to America and give him a job in the plant.

Gabriel Over the White House

6.4

1933

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A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.