Tag Archives: pre-Code

The Big Shakedown (1934)

Posted on May 22, 2019 by lyzmadness

  Director:  John Francis Dillon Starring:  Charles Farrell, Ricardo Cortez, Bette Davis, Allen Jenkins, Henry O’Neill, Glenda Farrell Screenplay:  Niven Busch and Rian James, based upon a story by Niven Busch and Samuel G. Engel       In the … Continue reading →

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Island Of Lost Souls (1933)

Posted on February 18, 2019 by lyzmadness

“Do you know what it means to feel like God?”   Director:  Erle C. Kenton Starring:  Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Kathleen Burke, Leila Hyams, Arthur Hohl, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Fields, Paul Hurst, Tetsu Komai, Hans Steinke Screenplay:  Waldemar Young and … Continue reading →

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The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

Posted on May 22, 2018 by lyzmadness

“Kill! Then love! When you have known that, you will have known ecstasy!”   [aka The Hounds Of Zaroff] Director:  Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel Starring:  Joel McCrea, Leslie Banks, Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Noble Johnson, William B. Davidson, … Continue reading →

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Supernatural (1933)

Posted on February 26, 2018 by lyzmadness

“I wonder if they are imitators? Perhaps their will has been subdued; perhaps they’ve been possessed by another personality, a powerful, malignant personality without – well – without a body of its own…”   Director:  Victor Halperin Starring:  Carole Lombard, … Continue reading →

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The Unknown (1927)

Posted on August 30, 2017 by lyzmadness

“Hands! Men’s hands! How I hate them!”   Director:  Tod Browning Starring:  Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford, Norman Kerry, John George, Nick De Ruiz, John St. Polis, Paul Desmuke (uncredited) Screenplay:  Waldemar Young and Joe Farnham, based upon a story by … Continue reading →

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The Mask Of Fu Manchu (1932)

Posted on December 1, 2016 by lyzmadness

“British Government!? I’ll wipe them and the whole accursed white race off the face of the earth!”   Director:  Charles Brabin and Charles Vidor (uncredited) Starring:  Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Myrna Loy, Karen Morley, Charles Starrett, Jean Hersholt, Lawrence Grant, … Continue reading →

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White Zombie (1932)

Posted on May 1, 2016 by lyzmadness

“They are not men, M’sieur: they are dead bodies – zombies! – the living dead. Corpses taken from their graves, and made to work in the sugar mills and fields at night…”   Director:  Victor Halperin Starring:  Bela Lugosi, Robert … Continue reading →

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Deluge (1933)

Posted on April 16, 2016 by lyzmadness

“The quake is moving eastward. Gulf Of Mexico flooding entire area. Chicago is doomed. Messages indicate Mississippi Basin sinking…”   Director:  Felix E. Feist Starring:  Peggy Shannon, Sidney Blackmer, Lois Wilson, Fred Kohler, Matt Moore, Lane Chandler, Samuel S. Hinds, … Continue reading →

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Doctor X (1932)

Posted on April 2, 2016 by lyzmadness

“Now listen, please, to what I have to say: one of us in this room may be a murderer; a murderer who kills by the light of a full moon, leaving his victim’s body mutilated; a cannibal…”   Director:  Michael … Continue reading →

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Murders In The Zoo (1933)

Posted on March 25, 2016 by lyzmadness

“You don’t mean to say you really like these beasts!?” “I love them. Their honesty, their simplicity; their primitive emotions. They love, they hate – they kill…”   Director:  A. Edward Sutherland Starring:  Lionel Atwill, Randolph Scott, Charles Ruggles, Gail … Continue reading →

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