Keyword: pre-code

Hips, Hips, Hooray!

5.7

1934

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Two salesmen try to market a flavored lipstick.

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.

Midnight

5.7

1934

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The foreman of a jury asks questions that send a woman to the electric chair for a murder committed in the heat of passion. On the night of the execution, his actions come back to haunt him.

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.

Glorifying the American Girl

5.9

1929

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The rise of a showgirl, Gloria Hughes, culminating in a Ziegfeld extravaganza Glorifying the American Girl.

Bad Girl

6.5

1931

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A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage.

The Bat Whispers

6.5

1930

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A master criminal terrorizes the occupants of an isolated country mansion.

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.

Check and Double Check

5.7

1930

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Typical Amos n Andy storyline has the boys trying to make a go of their open-air taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fancy party. All the regular characters are here (or mentioned), including the famous Mystic Knights of the Sea. The only film appearance of radios long-running characters.

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.

The Royal Family of Broadway

6.5

1930

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Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a breach of promise suit in Hollywood. Her daughter Gwen must decide between going on stage, or settling down in a conventional marriage. Julie is just thinking that it would be nice to retire and get married, when who should turn up but her old beau, Gilmore Marshal, the platinum magnate from South America.

Secret of the Blue Room

5.9

1933

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