Keyword: pre-code

Roman Scandals

6.5

1933

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A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Emperor.

Betty Boop's Penthouse

7.2

1933

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

Imitation of Life

7.8

1934

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A struggling widow and her daughter take in a Black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter; the two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.

The Great Gabbo

5.5

1929

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An insanely, egocentric ventriloquist, even though he is possessed by his wooden dummy, is in love with a dancer who is in love with another. The dummy gives advice to the ventriloquist.

Stand Up and Cheer!

4.6

1934

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A little girls (Shirley Temple) toe-tapping musical numbers uplift the nation during the Depression in this charming classic that includes Temples rendition of Baby Take a Bow.

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.

Chess-Nuts

6.6

1932

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Betty Boop is the black queen and Bimbo the white king in a surrealistic chess game.

Betty Boop's Rise to Fame

7

1934

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A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from three prior cartoons.

Love Bound

5

1932

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A gold-digging woman wins a big settlement against an older married man, which threatens to destroy the mans family. His son, discovering that the woman is part of a ring of blackmailers and that she is planning to flee the country, takes along his hulking chauffeur and follows her onto an ocean liner. There the two pretend to be a pair of wealthy playboys so that the woman will make a play for him and try to blackmail him, too, so he can then expose her and prove his fathers innocence. Complications ensue.

Thunderbolt

5.4

1929

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A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolts girl. Thunderbolt hopes to stave off the execution long enough to kill young Moran for romancing his girl.

Indiscreet

5.8

1931

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A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up.

The Little Giant

7.1

1933

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When Prohibition ends, a beer baron sees the writing on the wall, quits the rackets, and tries to break into California society.