There's an argument to be made that filmmakers became more creative in coding their excesses. Try some of the dialogue between Rick and Ilsa in Casablanca, especially when they talk about staying in 'that little place with the tinny piano playing downstairs all night', or that Ilsa clearly tries to sleep with Rick to get him to help her and her husband escape the Nazis. It's left uncertain whether they did the deed or not.
@@michiganjfrog Well, I love your clip collections because they are a great collectors guide. If I don't already have one of the films, I start an immediate search. I have somewhere around 35000 movies, and I'm adding to them all the time.
@@michiganjfrog Soon as I saw that title I immediately thought, wait, a Hope and Crosby picture was pre-code? And I didn't remember William Powell in it either. Did Paramount *know* nine years later that they were re-using an existing title?
Pre-codes are great. I've not seen a current movie in a theater in over 25 years, besides there's over 100 years worth of film to choose from.
How refreshing. I've always had a crush on Charlotte Greenwood, I guess based her acrobatic skills. Thanks Mr. W
When I'm good I'm very good, When I'm bad I'm better! Yes she is.
As Mae West once said “A good man may be hard to find, but a hard man is good to find”
Oops. Maureen O'Sullivan really wasn't wearing anything under that thing she was using for a skirt.
You can always get your spinach on the outside. nutty
I actually thought that was the coded lesbian saying she can settle for her friend over men, fun.
And then came the censors.
What a shame.
At least until the late 50s into the 60s when movies had to push the envelope because TV was becoming popular.
There's an argument to be made that filmmakers became more creative in coding their excesses.
Try some of the dialogue between Rick and Ilsa in Casablanca, especially when they talk about staying in 'that little place with the tinny piano playing downstairs all night', or that Ilsa clearly tries to sleep with Rick to get him to help her and her husband escape the Nazis.
It's left uncertain whether they did the deed or not.
Naughty 20s girls!!!
3:31 Did she mess up the line or was she starting to say something and stopped?
It’s a deliberate “slip” by Charlotte Greenwood. “Vitaphone” was the sound-on-disc system used by Warner Brothers, etc. for their early talkies.
Who is the acctres in the chair in the opening of the video?
That's Joan Blondell.
William Powell!!!!!
What is the movie that starts at 0:32. the one with the gators?
Never mind, Figured it out.
Thanks
For anyone else interested, the film is Cecil B. DeMille's "The Sign of the Cross" (1932).
@@michiganjfrog I actually have this film in my collection, but it's been a long time since I've watched it.
@@Voodoomaria It's a fun film and chock full of pre-Code sequences.
@@michiganjfrog Well, I love your clip collections because they are a great collectors guide. If I don't already have one of the films, I start an immediate search.
I have somewhere around 35000 movies, and I'm adding to them all the time.
58:00 you welcome
What is the William Powell movie at the start?
The Road to Singapore (1931)
@@michiganjfrog Thank you for the answer. And thanks for the videos.
@@michiganjfrog Soon as I saw that title I immediately thought, wait, a Hope and Crosby picture was pre-code? And I didn't remember William Powell in it either. Did Paramount *know* nine years later that they were re-using an existing title?