Keyword: pre-code

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.

The Criminal Code

6.3

1930

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After a failed attempt at running for governor, D.A. Mark Brady is appointed warden of the state prison where many of the criminals he prosecuted are incarcerated.

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 Doorway to Hell

6.1

1930

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Despite his efforts to go straight, a young gangster keeps falling back into crime.

Christopher Strong

6.3

1933

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A famous female flier and a member of Parliament drift into a potentially disastrous affair.

Murders in the Rue Morgue

6.4

1932

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A mad scientist seeks to mingle human blood with that of an ape, and resorts to kidnapping women for his experiments.

City Streets

7.2

1931

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Man joins a gang to free his girlfriend from prison.

No Limit

6

1931

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Theater usherette Bunny ODay (Clara Bow) inadvertently becomes hostess of a private gambling den, and gets involved in a romance with a neer-do-well gambler.

The Lost Patrol

7

1934

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A dozen British soldiers, lost in a Mesopotamian desert during World War I, are menaced by unseen Arab enemies.

Wonder Bar

7

1934

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Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out, that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane she kills him.

Her Man

5.4

1930

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A Havana bar girl with a tough protector falls for a young sailor.

Montana Moon

2.8

1930

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A vacuous and flirtatious daughter of a wealthy rancher falls in love and marries a Texas cowboy and rancher, who calls her Montana, and eventually clash over their different lifestyles, to the point of almost ending their marriage.