Keyword: pre-code

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.

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.

Ingagi

5.5

1930

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An expedition enters an area of the Congo jungle to investigate reports of a gorilla-worshipping tribe. After many dangerous adventures, they come upon the tribe they sought, only to watch as a virgin is sacrificed to a huge gorilla, who takes her away. The expedition follows the gorilla in an attempt to save the woman.

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.

Smarty

6

1934

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Vicki Wallace (Joan Blondell) takes great pleasure in teasing her husband,Tony Wallace (Warren William), who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isnt long before he ups and clips her on the chin. Vickis friend and attorney, Vernon Thorpe (Edward Everett Horton), secures a divorce for her, and Vicki and Vernon are soon married. Vickis yen for wearing revealing clothes and a penchant for inviting ex-husband Tony to dinner soon provokes the easily-provoked Vernon into belting one on her himself. She goes to Tonys apartment, where Tony is entertaining Bonnie (Joan Wheeler), who is not all that entertained by the presence of Vicki, especially after Vicki shows every intent of moving in and staying. Vernon shows up with George (Frank McHugh) and Anita (Claire Dood), evidently along so F. Hugh Herberts lines can be spread among five players instead of three, and Vicki more or less tells Vernon that as long as she is going to be slugged by a husband, she will just go back to Tony because he is a better slugger...or something. A pre-production code film and one of the reasons for the creation of same.

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.

It Pays to Advertise

5.6

1931

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To prove his thesis that any product--even one that doesnt exist--can be merchandized if it is advertised properly, a young man gets together with his fathers savvy secretary to market a non-existent laundry soap. Complications ensue when his product turns out to be more successful than even he imagined--and now he has to deliver.

The Royal Bed

6

1931

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The hapless king of a small European nation must put up with a domineering queen, a daughter who wants to elope with her boyfriend, a peasant revolt, and a scheming son who wants to be king himself and is plotting to take advantage of the situation.

The Death Kiss

6.1

1932

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Murder during film shoot sparks search for a killer.

Law of the Sea

5

1931

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A sadistic, evil ship captain lusts after a beautiful young girl he spots in town. It turns out that shes the girlfriend of a young man whose father the captain had blinded and cast adrift on the ocean many years before.

Dark Hazard

6.3

1934

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Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valerie, Marge leaves him. After a few years he returns, but she is now in love with old flame Pres. Jim buys racing dog Dark Hazard and makes a fortune which he loses on roulette.