Pre Code Movies

Wealthy young socialite Diane Wyman squanders her fortune and becomes involved in a scandalous raid at a wild party. Her legal guardian, a lecherous...

This early example of the "backstage" musical genre tells the story of Kitty Darling, a fading burlesque star who tries to save her convent-educated...

Working-class girl dreams of living a better life and forsakes her friends when she has a chance to break into high society.

An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is...

An extramarital affair leads to a young couple contracting venereal disease.

A woman's dubious past proves to be a stumbling block when she becomes engaged to marry.

Dee is a naive chorus girl living in a boarding house full of low-paid actors. Dee and Billy are in love and he helps her to move from chorus girl to...

After catching their husbands with other women, two wives go on a girls-only vacation.

Chick Hewes is released from prison and finds work as an accountant. Two years later, Chick's crooked friend, Benny LaMarr, to whom he is indebted...

In Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife. His younger brother also comes home after having spent...

Fly-by-night stage producer Bob Grant inadvertently saves the life of small-towner Thomas Maxwell. The grateful Maxwell invites Grant to move in with...

Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.

A comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.

An expedition is sent into the rugged Australian outback to search for a lost white woman.

Before handing over a large inheritance, a guardian hires three chorus girls to educate his charge about the "underside" of big-city life.

On the Indonesian island of Bali, two young native women are shown how they spend their days leading up to their wedding ceremonies.

Max Tracey is the head waiter at a London hotel. He falls in love at first sight with Sylvia Robertson, an aristocratic woman, and poses as a prince...

Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and...

An expedition enters an area of the Congo jungle to investigate reports of a gorilla-worshipping tribe.

The Farmer is abducted by a capering Jungle Goddess. As pre-Code as a Terrytoon ever got. Most animation is by Frank Moser; with him are Art Babbitt,...