Keyword: pre-code

The Mayor of Hell

7.1

1933

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Five members of a teen-age gang, including leader Jimmy Smith, are sent to the state reformatory, presided over by the melodramatically callous Thompson. Soon, Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed deputy commissioner as a political favor, arrives - complete with hip flask and blonde. Gargan falls for activist nurse Dorothy and, inspired by her, takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. But Thompson, to conceal his years of graft, needs a quick way to discredit Gargan.

The Sign of the Cross

6.9

1932

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A Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero.

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.

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.

Chasing Rainbows

5.9

1930

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The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. The spectacular dancing ensembles and colorful costumes and pulchritude on-stage offers a contrasting background to the drabness of the backstage, where joy, sorrow, tragedies, deception, and romance are intertwined.

Manhattan Melodrama

7.2

1934

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The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

Going Hollywood

6.1

1933

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A love-struck teacher pursues a radio singer to Hollywood.

White Zombie

6.4

1932

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A young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiancé, but instead turns her into a zombie slave.

Morning Glory

6.6

1933

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When a naively innocent, aspiring actress arrives on the Broadway scene, she is taken under the wing of several theater veterans who mentor her to ultimate success.

The Big Trail

7.2

1930

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Breck Coleman leads hundreds of settlers in covered wagons from the Mississippi River to their destiny out West.

Twentieth Century

7.8

1934

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A flamboyant Broadway impresario who has fallen on hard times tries to get his former lover, now a Hollywood diva, to return and resurrect his failing career.

International House

7.1

1933

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Assorted wacky characters converge on a Chinese hotel to bid on a new invention, television.