Pre-Code Movies of the Early 1930s

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Strawberry Roan (1933) is an excellent movie, although I don't think that it had anything to which the censors would have objected. They have huge herds of horses running around, and some great scenery. Plus, some cowboy music.

Gow the Head Hunter, 1928



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPfTeXsNqQ0

An interesting look at interactions with primitive people during the early 20th century

I recently watched The Sheik (1921), with Rudolph Valentino.

An Arab sheik kidnaps a British woman and brings her to his tent in the Sahara Desert of Algeria. In the end, she falls in love with him. She finds out that the Sheik is actually of European parentage--he had been adopted as a child into the tribe, and this somehow takes away the racial stigma.

A rather odd movie--I don't recommend it other than to satisfy one's curiosity. The movie was a huge hit back in the day.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0012675/?ref_=tt_urv

Three on a Match (1932)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023590



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqw8a0_ETxQ

I thought it was a good movie. A woman has a good life with a good husband, but she gets bored with her life, and throws it all away for a thug. Something of a cautionary tale.

Stars Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart

The only two I can think of are Gone With the Wind and Nosferatu.

Nosferatu was a really creepy German vampire movie and it's frankly much better than the Hollywood take on Bram Stoker's Dracula.

And Gone With the Wind was a complex movie to me because the way it portrayed slavery was offensive but at the same time the actors playing Scarlett and Rhett had great chemistry and Scarlett O'hara was an intriguing heroine. She was tough and backed down before no man, she did what she had to in order to survive the war, and she was frankly not a pleasant person who used men who she had no attachment to, chased after a married man for years, and slapped a black slave girl in the face hard. Yet despite her many flaws she was still an endearing character to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3-XCvlTkK4

Murders at the Zoo (1933) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024360/



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nNqPu7q4xI

Pretty good movie

I don't even know the name of the movie but Mae West said to a gentleman caller ( I assume he was somewhat of a gangster type) "Are you packing or are you just happy to see me?" I'm not even sure if this was pre-code or Mae Wests' attempt to get around the code.