Keyword: pre-code

Lady Killer

7

1933

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A former gangster makes it big in Hollywood, but his old life catches up with him.

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.

Framed

6.1

1930

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Woman swears revenge against an Inspector who was responsible for her fathers death.

The Private Life of Henry VIII

7.2

1933

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King Henry VIII marries five more times after his divorce from his first wife Catherine of Aragon.

High Voltage

4.3

1929

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A busload of passengers gets stranded in a snowstorm and take refuge in an abandoned church, where they run into a mysterious man who may be on the run from the law.

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.

Bombshell

7.3

1933

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A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

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 Greene Murder Case

5.7

1929

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At the end of each year, the extremely wealthy but odious Greene family gets together at the spooky old family castle to establish terms of a will, though they despise each other. This year, they start being mysteriously murdered one by one, and the police use Philo Vance to examine the clues and suspects.

Mata Hari

6.7

1931

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A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.

The Easiest Way

5.7

1931

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Growing up in a poor working-class family, Laura decides not to marry the boy-next-door and instead accepts wealthy, older Will Brocktons invitation to move in with him. After falling in love with young up-and-coming newsman Jack Madison she leaves Brockton to wait for Madisons return from a long assignment. She runs out of money and becomes desperate, returning again to Brockton who, upon learning of Madisons sudden arrival, tells Laura she must inform Madison of her living situation or he will.

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.