Universal has come out with a six-movie pre-Code set, and for those who care about this sort of thing, it's a very big deal. Actually, even if you're one of those people who don't care about this sort ...

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In its glory days - the mid-1990s - the Roxie Theater was known for its pre-Code festivals. Now with that theater's glory finally returning, thanks to several highly successful film noir festivals in ...

“Forbidden Hollywood,” Warner Archive’s made-to-order DVD series featuring Pre-Code films, sounds like good, clean – well, dirty – fun. Pre-Code films, made from the late ’20s until 1934, when the ...

They might seem tame by today’s standards, but there was a time in Hollywood when the men were bad and the women were badder. Today it’s known as the ‘pre-Code’ era, and it’s coming to TV this month.

It’s only seven little letters, with a hyphen thrown in just for the heck of it, but to people in the know, the phrase “pre-Code” signifies cinematic buried treasure of the most satisfying kind.

The one man most responsible for popularizing “Pre-code” movies — those racy early talkies turned out by Hollywood before the Production Code Authority cracked down, largely at the behest of the ...

IT was pretty much anything goes in early Hol lywood talkies made during the so-called “pre-code” era. Prostitution, crime, sadism and sex in all its varieties ran rampant on-screen until mid-1934.

Here are four entertaining films from Hollywood's spicy "pre-code" era — a time before the censoring Hays Code began spoiling the fun. Don't expect softcore, but you will find frank handling of adult ...