When we're talking about "pre-Code," we're talking about a period roughly from the middle of 1929 until July 1, 1934, in which American movies were pretty much uncensored. If you think of old ...

It’s a treatment well deserved for one of the raciest pre-code films of them all, with palpable sexual heat beween Gable (in his pre-moustache period) and Harlow, who has a justifiably famous ...

Among many other adventurous explorations of the studio’s vast catalogue, the manufacture-on-demand Warner Archive Collection has been particularly active in making available on DVD so-called… ...

From Dracula to Frankenstein, these 10 horror movies made before the restrictive Hays Code were the best in the genre.

Scandalous pre-Code films such as Scarface, Island of Lost Souls, and Morocco brought unprecedented violence and sexuality to Hollywood.

Bruce Goldstein loves movies from the Pre-Code Era. Give him 30 minutes, and he’ll give you the entire history of it. As the founding director of repertory programming at New York’s Film Forum ...

Released in 1932, “Afraid to Talk” is an astonishingly cynical melodrama from the pre-Production Code enforcement era, full of retorts such as: “If he squawks we’ll give him… ...