Pre Code Movies

A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.

A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.

New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie makes the cast of the Follies and moves up in the...

"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's...

The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.

A Tennessee art school student wins a scholarship to paint in Paris. He is thrilled until he arrives and discovers that his style is hopelessly passe...

Gopher City Kansas hosts a beauty contest. The winner, Elvira Plunkett, and her mother go to Hollywood. The Chamber of Commerce also provides Elvira...

A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman and his career ascends, but he secretly continues...

WBLA is on the air, presenting the live music, the sudsy dramas and the sell-sell-sell of commercial interludes that keep consumers buying and...

A woman infiltrates a criminal mob to avenge her brother's death.

A plucky stewardess risks her life marrying a daredevil pilot.

Driven to desperation by his young and extravagant wife, alienist Dr. Emil Brandt has arranged a perfect crime; now he begs the police to lock him up...

In the 1860s, Mary Marlowe defies her father's wishes to marry a British lord and runs away with clerk John Carlton as he heads West to make his...

Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her...

Daily life at men and women's prison units where baseball and the marching band are serious business. Two prisoners escape in order to help paroled...

A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.

While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of...

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...

When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful, she decides to pay him back in kind.

Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton....