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Looks at the stereotypebreaking films of...Complicated Women 2003
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimensions. Good girls had lovers and babies and held down jobs, while the bad girls were cast in a sympathetic light. And they did it all without apology.
Pals Pat Rogers and Slag Bailey...Unmarried 1939
Pals Pat Rogers and Slag Bailey try to collect a debt from Slag's recently deceased boxing promoter but wind up collecting his child, instead, and raising him as their own son.
During a stickup a woman is...
Esmeralda is a cook in a...She Gets Her Man 1935
Esmeralda is a cook in a diner in a small Arkansas town. When a gang of crooks moves into town and plots a bank robbery, Esmeralda unintentionally wrecks their plans, resulting in fame for Esmeralda as the crime-fighting "Tiger Woman," but also further complications.
A young Iowa woman inherits her...
A secretary catches the eye of...One Hour Late 1934
A secretary catches the eye of her amorous boss while her regular boyfriend keeps trying to propose marriage to her.
A prizefighter is convicted of a...
A devoted wife helps her husband...My Woman 1933
A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.
A lovely fashion models dreams of...Disgraced! 1933
A lovely fashion model's dreams of marital bliss are shattered when her fiance jilts her. To make matters worse, her father kills the cad and she gets accused of the crime.
Parisian playboy plays father to an...A Bedtime Story 1933
Parisian playboy plays father to an abandoned baby who interferes with his womanising.
A wisecracking narrator mocks footage featuring...
A debutantes Helen Twelvetrees brother Robert...
William Poster writes a gossip column...Is My Face Red? 1932
William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of his information from his showgirl gal-pal, Peggy. Eventually Bill's reckless tattling gets him in deep trouble with friends and enemies, putting his career and life in jeopardy.
A psychotic and sadistic mob boss...
It is 1915 in Vienna and the...A Woman of Experience 1931
It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a nurse, but a government official thinks that she will make an excellent spy.
After a tumultuous first marriage Millie...Millie 1931
After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The years pass, and now Millie's daughter garners the attentions of men - men who once devoted their time to her mother.
Western pardners Jeff and Cash find...The Painted Desert 1931
Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranches. Bill, the foundling whom Cash has raised to young manhood, wants to end the feud and extends an olive branch toward Jeff, who now has a lovely daughter. But during a mining venture, the bitterness escalates. Is Bill to be set against his own adoptive father?
Disappearances and strange goingson in a...
To avoid hostilities Maryan the ward...Swing High 1930
To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian. Doc May and Daphne, his wife, work as clowns; and Garry, a singing soldier of fortune, sings along with Maryan's act. Ruth, Maryan's partner, quits to get married; and Joe, who is jealous of Garry, replaces her with Trixie, his former assistant. When Garry announces his engagement to Maryan, Trixie persuades him to join a strip poker game in a drunken state and "compromises" him in the presence of his fiancée. Grief-stricken, Maryan falls during her act, and Garry, robbed of circus funds, is arrested. In spite of her injuries, Maryan, learning of Trixie's treachery, performs the act with her and forces a confession by threatening to drop her; Garry is released and is welcomed back to the show.
Phil and Pete compete for Marys...
