Keyword: pre-code

The Story of Temple Drake

7.1

1933

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A wealthy but neurotic Southern belle finds herself trapped in the hideout of a gang of vicious bootleggers. The gangs leader lusts after her, and is determined not to let anything stand in the way of his having her.

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.

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.

City Streets

7.2

1931

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Man joins a gang to free his girlfriend from prison.

Moby Dick

5.7

1930

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In this extremely loose adaptation of Melvilles classic novel, Ahab is revealed initially not as a bitter and vengeful madman, but as a bit of a lovable scamp. Ashore in New Bedford, he meets and falls for Faith Mapple, daughter of the local minister and beloved of Ahabs brother Derek. Faith herself quickly returns Ahabs love, as Derek is drab and ignoble. On his next voyage, however, Ahab loses a leg to the monstrous white whale Moby-Dick. When upon his return to New Bedford he mistakenly believes Faith wants nothing to do with him because of his disfigurement, Ahab returns to sea with only one goal in mind -- to find and kill the great white whale.

Love Affair

5.9

1932

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Heiress Carol Owen learns to fly from aeronautical engineer Jim Leonard who begins neglecting his work as their affair progresses. Things get complicated when she learns her father died penniless and that she has been being supported by her financial advisor, and now suitor, Bruce Hardy.

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 Lost Patrol

7.3

1934

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

Christopher Strong

6.3

1933

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

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.

Jimmy the Gent

6.8

1934

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An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.

Night Flight

6.2

1933

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Polio breaks out in Rio de Janeiro, the serum is in Santiago and theres only one way to get the medicine where its desperately needed: flown in by daring pilots who risk the treacherous weather and forbidding peaks of the Andes.