Keyword: pre-code

Mr. Robinson Crusoe

5.6

1932

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After making a bet, Steve strands himself on uninhabited island.

Half Shot at Sunrise

6.1

1930

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The stage stars Wheeler and Woolsey play two soldiers who go absent without leave in Paris, during World War I.

42nd Street

7.6

1933

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When the leading lady of a Broadway musical breaks her ankle, she is replaced by a young unknown actress, who becomes the star of the show.

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.

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.

Men Must Fight

6

1933

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Laura is a nurse at the Front in World War I. She meets and falls for a young flyer named Geoffrey. On his first mission, Geoffrey is shot down and taken to the hospital where Laura works. Within days he succumbes to his injuries. Faced with the fact that she is with Geoffreys child, she accepts the proposal of Ed Seward who still wants to marry her. Laura vowes that her new son will never fight in a war again. Jumping ahead it is 1940 and Robert, who is Geoffreys son, meets Peggy Chase on a Ship steaming across the Atlantic. Ed Seward, who is now the Secretary of State, has adverted War by drafting a peace treaty with a belligerent country called Eurasia. However, before the treaty can be signed, Eurasia has the envoy assassinated and both sides escalate. At home, Laura campaigns for Peace, Ed stands with the country and will fight and Robert declares that he will not fight. In doing so, Robert loses Peggy and sees his family break apart.

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.

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.

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.

The Cocoanuts

7.2

1929

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During the Florida land boom, The Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land, thwart a jewel robbery, and generally act like themselves.

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.

The Kennel Murder Case

7

1933

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Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.