Keyword: pre-code

Fighting Caravans

5.7

1931

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A young frontier scout helps guide a freight wagon train across the country, fighting off Indians and evil traders, while his two crusty companions try and save him from falling in love.

Topaze

6.8

1933

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An honest and naive schoolteacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside the classroom, when a rich Baron and his mistress use the teachers name and outstanding reputation in a crooked business scheme.

Paid

6.2

1930

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Mary Turner goes up for three years on a crime she didnt commit. Once out she and former prison mates plan a scam in which old men can be sued for breach of promise - the heart balm racket. After plotting verious ways to get back at the men who set her up initially, she softens and settles down.

Torch Singer

5.1

1933

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When she cant support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer.

Bureau of Missing Persons

6.7

1933

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A sweet blonde goes to the police looking for her missing husband. When it turns out her husband is both a murder victim and a bachelor - and that the blonde is suspect #1, tough cop Butch Saunders comes up with a scheme to crack the case.

White Woman

6.2

1933

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A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is cruel, vicious and insanely jealous. She and the plantations overseer develop a mutual attraction, but are terrified at what will happen if her husband finds out.

Applause

7

1929

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A burlesque star seeks to keep her convent-raised daughter away from her low-down life and abusive lover/stage manager.

Double Harness

7.2

1933

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A woman tricks a playboy into marrying her and then tries to make him legitimately fall in love with her.

Flirtation

3.8

1934

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A precode romantic melodrama about a burlesque dancer and a country boy who must pretend to be married.

Love Is a Racket

6.7

1932

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Jimmy writes the Up and Down Broadway column for the New York Globe, and he is head over heels for Mary. But Mary is more interested in her career and is looking at starring on Broadway with the help of Boncour. However, there is a problem with the rubber checks that she has written. When Jimmy tries to see if they will be held until she can pay them, he finds that they were paid in full by Shaw and now he wants Mary to show her appreciation. But no one except Shaw wants Shaw involved with Mary and it could mean trouble for everyone.

The Thirteenth Guest

5.8

1932

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Thirteen years ago, somebody murdered the wealthy host of a dinner party. Now, the guests from that event reunite at the creepy house where the crime took place to figure out who inherited the victims estate.

George White's Scandals

6.5

1934

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Opening with a credit line that reads Entire production conceived, created and directed by George White, a film evolves where the only plot line is a thin backstage romance between Jimmy Martin and Kitty Donnelly in and around a dozen or more sketches, revues, black-outs and singing and dancing turns. Made before the birth of the production code, reviewers of the day found much to object about in the implications of Alice Fayes Nasty Man song with the Meglin Kiddies, and the dog action in the Your Dog Loves My Dog number by Vallee, Faye, Jimmy Durante and Dixie Dunbar. The geometric dance arrangements used in the Vallee, Durante and Cliff Edwards Every Day Is Fathers Day was not cause for Busby Berkeley to lose any sleep.