Pre Code Movies

William Foster is a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters. He's adept at keeping them...

A night club singer falls for a gangster.

Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.

Elizabeth Rimplegar inhabits a household populated by virtual lunatics. Her mother, Nellie, mishandled the family fortune, and, alas, the stock...

A wealthy young man bets his uncle that he can transform a clumsy cleaning lady into a glamorous fashion plate, then marry her off to his bachelor...

A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.

Grace Livingston is leading a happy life in her small town, with her mother and father, being courted by two men, the steady but predictable Tommy...

Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like...

Troubles begin for the Sterlings when they buy an expensive car and friends start pressing them for rides.

A highly respectable lawyer becomes a sexual animal after working hours; His live-in mother-in-law tries to keep him in line. When an...

A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé's lover.

Margaret Holt and her brother Victor set out to smash a narcotics ring responsible for their father's death. Young reporter John Howell and eccentric...

A follower of Napoleon escapes the firing squad, flees to a woman's bedroom and winds up butler.

The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot....

A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has impregnated her best friend.

American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress...

Unscrupulously ambitious, Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and, through bluff and bravado, finds himself the emperor of a...

A bible publisher is falling in love with a chorus girl and finds himself backing a Broadway show.

Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then she becomes inexplicably locked in her hotel room,...

A student is pressured into pretending to be a classmate's Aunt so he can act as a false chaperone.