Night Life in Reno (1931) PRE-CODE HOLLYWOOD
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2018
- Stars: Virginia Valli, Jameson Thomas, Dorothy Christy
Director: Raymond Cannon
After a wife catches her husband messing around with a floozy, she heads to Reno for a quickie divorce and discovers the city’s night life to be a lot wilder than she thought! 
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AMAZING, IT'S LIKE SEEING THE PAST THAT WE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO SEE BUT THANKS TO MOVIES AND RADIO'S RECORDING
Jusst imagine that none of those people thought for a second that they would become part of a visual record of a decade for people to look at and study one hundred - and more years to come.
I’m fond of the old vehicles that part of what I love about these movies
Me and my brother used play spot the car, during watching these movies on t.v. with our mum. Back when we were young.
This is a neat film! It’s the first time I’ve watched silent film star Virginia Valli 🌹(Who was married to Charles Farrell) in a talking film. Jameson Thomas as Virginia’s husband along with perennial cinema drunk Arthur Housman are great together as pals, along with Dorothy Christy 🌹 and Dixie Lee 🌹 in the beginning as “the other woman”. And character actor Clarence Wilson as the divorce lawyer. Trivia note: Carmelita Geraghty 🌺 who plays Arthur Housman’s estranged wife co-starred with Virginia Valli in The Pleasure Garden (1925) Alfred Hitchcock’s surviving directorial debut.
You are a real vintage film cineaste. Only the most hardcore film buff would recognize names like Jameson Thomas, Dorothy Christy and Carmelita Geraghty. It's almost as good as MGM's The Divorcee (30), a film that surely inspired a lot of Knockoffs. cheers
I just love this old gems. !
Fantastic
I bought a box set of old films pre code and this was one of them .movie history .
What year did Code begin, do you know?
One of the other commentators hit the nail on the head. About half of the performers speak and act like professional actors, and the rest seem to be trying to remember their lines and/or marks (love the lawyer's male secretary). But it was an era when studios were trying out all sorts of folks for the movies, and those who failed went on to other professions.
BTW, this was Virginia Valli's last film, although she was featured in numerous silent films.
Frau ertappt Mann beim Seitensprung. Dreht sich um und verlässt den Raum. Sie verschwendet keinerlei Energie in Gekreische, Heulattacken oder sonstige hysterische Auftritte. Großartig. So schafft sie es sofort die nötigen Schritte für die Scheidung und einen Neuanfang zu gehen. Bravo 😊
wonderful little movie..thank you.
I love the credits being super imposed over the film....I always thought this was great . Thank you for another great film full of stars !
How nice to see men in suits or tails, so elegant. Admire the women's fashions in 30s and 40s. It seems a bit more formality in manners and dress reflect more self-respect than, especially the men today.
Lol, they are drunk 25% of the time and willing to cheat on their wives. There suits don't make them any more respectable.
I see Dixie Lee listed in the credits. She was Bing Crosby's first wife. I knew she had a career in films before marrying him, but never saw any of her work. Thank you for the upload❤❤❤❤
Thank you.
Good to study that period ...
A good clear print,nice to 👀this featurtte😉
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Great videos as usually ! Thank you .
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LOVE THIS FILM! 🤍
The shyster had his bets covered. Six week residency was a racket too. Light weight enjoyable movie.
So clean, ordered and not over populated ... the future wasn't worth hanging around for.
You said it!
The vulture 1% are never going to be over populated. But they want the poor to breed so that they can have cheaper labor to steal more money.
I kind of like antibiotics, advanced surgery, vaccines and antiretrovirals.
Time for us all to do an about face. We are meant to feel low and deprecate the life we have. Satan wants the world to be miserable. Take moments each day to step back from dark cynicism. Share happiness with others. We all need to reach out. It's |God's way during the worst times. Defeat your negativity through faith.
I feel like i was born 50 yrs after i should've been
same with me
but the "good old days" never were in many ways.
Me too
I think I should have been born around 1918 myself.
Im still Here 4 ya bab If you dont mind My wheelchair.
Yeah more fun than the vast majority of films made since then.
Gute Bild- und Tonqualität. Nach all den Jahren.
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11:03 - Great shot of earlier version of the 'Biggest Little City in the World' sign.
Great story ,back in time , people still cheated THIER spouse !
Great little number!
SuzieQ Wonder Hi, been years. Glad to see you are still around
Great, thanks
Alot of class
Great movie!
A lot of folks seem to be drinking in 1931, yet prohibition didn't end until 1933.
That was cute !🤷🏾♀️👏🏾🤦🏽♀️🎥🙋🏽
I always appreciate the effort of uploaders for posting videos, so I am not disparaging that. But this is not pre-code Hollywood, this is pre-acting and scriptwriting lessons Hollywood :D
We're watching them learn and craft a new language of film. They weren't afraid of silence.
The maid deserves an oscar.
Great to 👀 Arthur in a part sober role,good actor😉
Back in those days, phone numbers only had 4 characters?
If on the same exchange, yes.
The Hays Code (and McCarthyism) did Hollywood no favors.
Remember, if not for the restrictions, creativity would not have been inspired to find 'work arounds'. Hitchcock's brilliance is due to restrictions on what he couldn't show. Obstacles are often the most powerful catalysts for creativity. Today, we have practically no restrictions in film, anything goes, and look what is out there. Look at the lack of creativity: Remakes and super heros.
The Golden Age of Hollywood, the very best films made in that town, were made during the period of restrictions, The Hayes code.
@@robbiereilly Well said. Artists need the discipline of business- 'we who live to please must please to live' as the Bard said. Respecting public morality is part of that. The Hays Office codified standards which were generally accepted by American customers of Hollywood, while leaving enough wiggle room for ingenious and determined creators to blur the edges if the story justified it.
Probably a lot of pre-Code Sound movies could not have got made later with or without restrictions. The cynicism and lewdness of 1929-33 was a consequence of the Depression. The optimism and positivity which replaced it was a response to the New Deal; audiences might well have rejected a continuation of the Zeitgeist of early Sound in any case.
The industry suffered two downturns in the Thirties which almost bankrupted big outfits; the moguls concluded, rightly or wrongly, that the sleazy approach was deterring family visits to the pictures. (Ironically, Paramount was saved by Mae West, but Mae used subtlety, not nudity and crudity.)
As Renoir said, you have to know the rules to break them successfully. That applies as much to censorship as to aesthetics.
Jays code was voluntary and started by the studios. The movie industry would have died without it. Families could not go to movies because they never knew what to expect. And McCarthy was right.
Please remember that if it were not for the Hays Code, the federal government and the states would have imposed their restrictions and control. Imagine trying to make a film that would agree with the legislation of 48 states!
Lots of more small scale industries in each state?
Great fun!
Good movie
The blonde side piece is Dixie Lee, Bing Crosby's first wife.
Yes, and mother of four sons by Bing. All dead.
@@catlover34fl Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
I forgot she was an actress.
great qty.
How long has Reno been the place for quick divorces?
They're always flinging matches onto the floor in these pictures! 52:41
This is truly one of *those* "SO b a d", that it's "g o o d!" 👍 : )
Out of the whole country Reno had the quickest divorces. Spend six weeks in Reno and you are sufficiently separated to make the divorce official.
Transatlantic accent, acting was terrible. I love to see the clothing, design of buildings,etc. very interesting, notice how much smaller people were at that time . Thanks for posting this on you tube😍
On you comment about the acting: The bloke playing Roy Carlton is Arthur Housman who was the greatest cinematic drunks. He appeared in 5 Laurel and Hardy films and did straight roles too. His career started in the silent area - seek out 'Non Stop Bride' and 'The Bat'. While looking into actors and actresses who appeared with Laurel and Hardy I have developed a taste for old black and white movies; so much better than todays Hollywood. ruclips.net/video/FsgPEgxAO5Q/видео.html
Why is the opening song from 1927 "Hello Swanee, Hello"?
Smoking was so acceptable then
Clarence Wilson, who played the lawyer, was born in 1876 and died in 1941 at the age of 64. He was my grandson. I was born in 1820, and I'll be 200 years old later this year. My health is pretty good considering my age. I live with a tortoise who's 100 years old. We are listed as each other's beneficiaries, in case one of us ever dies.
He said "los angle-eez"😂
That was the accepted pronunciation for many years
The British way
"My hat!"
So much classier than "This is bullshit!" Lol
The women are so happy
Reno - "The Biggest Little City in the West" - divorce capital, USA!!!
There were a lot of alcoholics during the prohibition era. 🥴🥃
DOROTHY CHRISTY! **She carries the film by herself.
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Did he get the $300 after the $200 deposit? ...I wonder...
i was wondering the same thing
Reno cesspool never changes
Dixie Lee really wasn't all that. Bing was abusive to her as he was to his sons
Is this the same Dixie Lee that married Bing Crosby?
Hi Dave 🍕Yes. Married Bing on 11/29/1930 🍕
How convenient his wife confesses to killing her husband and the phone reviever is off the hook where the operator hears everything and a happy ending comes into play now if that could only happen in real life.
Just my luck stumbling onto this picture considering today is the anniversary of Virginia Valli's death.
I watch with the sound muted...the dialogue is unbearable but the scenery is worth the watch...these socalled pre code writers were all hacks
The actors clearly hadn't got the hang of speaking lines in this early 'talkie'. They seem to have barely learnt them. At 51:20 the lead needed a prompt.
He didn't need a prompt, he was finagling up a lie about killing that man. Looked very convincing. Good acting all around.
@26:57
The brilliant drunk man, I've seen him in Laurel and Hardy Films and more.
Maybe it fell down the grading....
That first dude in, is more of a plank than Keanu!
Through the ages of cinema men with mustaches always look ridiculous, well except for Clark Gable. The film was alright, but I usually prefer happy endings.
Wonderfully dorky…
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Interesting. Always wondered why they had to go to Reno to wait for divorce.
Same
I remember my Grandma telling me her sister went to Reno for her divorce, I asked her why Reno , she said normally it takes a year to get one but in Reno it's a whole lot faster.
In Reno the law was "establish residency by staying here for six weeks" and you could get a divorce.
@@tmo.48Thank you for your answer.
1931? Nevada legalized gambling that year.
Dialog then twas so cagey.
It was OK.
The only good thing about today is that we at least can get the same type of education as all "Americans" at least thanks to the internet. Even though my mother feels like American education system did me no favors Lol. I'm still thankful to live in todays time then the older times.
LOL..all i got out of school was typing.,back in the fifties . i would like to go
back..or if i get another chance..i would get into genetics . puzzle of mystery
As I've pointed out elsewhere, I kind of like longer life expectancy, antibiotics, advanced surgery and cancer treatments, vaccines and antiretrovirals!
27:06 34:29
O mores, O tempes.
From today's perspective this is so unremarkable, and the moral issues so minor.
Yawn...
The scrip is terrible and the actors are just as bad.
Yeah, and it's way too short! ;)
White privledge.
I hate how African-Americans are portrayed in these old films. Like they were just unintelligent.
well they weren't.. and its blacks, not your white-guilt hyphenated BS term
They are portrayed badly here in these films,, because that's how they were treated in real life, not just in America, but around the world. You only see it here in American films, because these movies were made in America. But Blacks were treated badly the world over, including Africa. Many European films of that period simply didn't include them at all. Remember, most of Hollywood's producers, director's, writers were Europeans, either immigrating to the US or fleeing Europe from repression such as Fascism, Communism, etc. They brought with them the ideals and beliefs they had in Europe.
And a weird fascination for "The Lost Cause"!
Just a baaaad movie!