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Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1930's, before Hollywood began enforcing a self-imposed Production Code, many films allowed for extraordinary frankness including nudity, adultery and prostitution. In this restored and remastered three-movie collection, three daring young actresses are featured in racy, riveting star vehicles.
Baby face (1933): Barbara Stanwyck sleeps her way up the corporate ladder in a New York bank, not caring who gets hurt.
Red-headed woman (1932):...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Five classic films that offer a rare glimpse at a lost era of provocative filmmaking.
The divorcée (1930): Jerry and Ted are young, in love, and part of the New York 'in-crowd'. Jerry's decision to marry Ted crushes a yearning Paul. Distraught Paul gets drunk and wrecks his car, disfiguring young Dorothy's face in the process. Out of pity, Paul marries Dorothy. Years later, the apparent perfect marriage of Ted and Jerry falls apart from infidelity...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Other men's women (1931): Bill and Jack are railroad men. When Bill comes to stay with Jack and his wife, Bill and Lily fall in love. Jack confronts Bill about his suspicions and the two fight, leaving Jack seriously injured.
The purchase price (1932): Joan Gordon is a singer tiring of her relationship with Eddie. She flees to North Dakota to become a mail-order bride. Happiness is threatened by her stubborn husband, a lecherous neighbor and the...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
After the dawn of sound and before the Production Code, Hollywood ran wild and free. Fearlessly and frankly tackling subjects and scenes that would quickly become forbidden to a generation of filmmakers, these seldom-seen pre-Code wonders are both revelatory and sin-sational. This fifth volume takes a walk on the wild side.
Hard to handle (1933): Small time con artist Lefty Merrill has co-organized a crooked dance marathon and set-up his girlfriend...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
An enticing trio of suave silver screen seducers lies at the heart of this fourth collection of pre-Code sensations whose subject matter would soon be forbidden by the infamous Production Code.
Jewel robbery (1932): A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jewellers.
Lawyer man (1932): Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer...
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
"Volume Six turns the spotlight on adultery, alcoholism, prostitution, and racism, issues that the Production Code would soon ban from the screen. Starring the pre-Code era's biggest stars, including John Gilbert, Richard Barthelmess, Myrna Loy, Kay Francis, and Ann Dvorak,...[they] are a provocative reflection of American mores in a not-so-innocent time. The Wet Parade:... Demon whiskey brings ruin to two families in this all-star adaptation of Upton...
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
The hatchet man: A Tong executioner allows his wife to run off with a gangster only to learn she's been sold into prostitution.
Skyscraper souls: A financier stops at nothing to gain control of a 100-story office building and a naive young woman.
Employees' entrance: A tyrannical department store manager chases after profits and a young woman.
Ex-lady: An artist who doesn't believe in marriage reluctantly weds her lover only to discover he's seeing...
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Blonde crazy: A bellhop and chambermaid are out to enjoy each other, while conning criminals.
Strangers may kiss: A desperate lady is on a love trek across the continent.
Hi, Nellie: A newspaperman gets demoted to being a lovelorn-column writer, and finds comfort in a glass.
Dark hazard: A gambling addict is torn between a good girl and a glamour girl who bets it all on one special pooch.
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Guilty hands: when a lawyer discovers that his daughter plans to wed one of his past clients, he commits a horrible act to ensure it never happens.
The mouthpiece: after a traumatic experience, a prosecutor changes his lifestyle in order to cope.
Secrets of the French police: a man tricks a French woman into posing as a Russian.
The Match King: a man rises from rags to riches but is then distracted by a beautiful woman.
Ever in my heart: a German...
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Big city blues: A free-wheeling chorus girl hooks up with the ultimate hick.
Hell's highway: A cool convict works the road crew for a corrupt warden.
The cabin in the cotton: Sharecroppers are taken advantage of by the planter who keeps them as virtual slaves.
When ladies meet: A female novelist whose latest work extols the virtues of extramarital amour has a fling with her married publisher.
I sell anything: A Second Avenue auctioneer gets played...
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