Category: Cinematheque Live

  • Danger Lights (1930)

    Danger Lights (1930)

    Danger Lights is a 1930 American Pre-Code drama film, directed by George B. Seitz, from a screenplay by James Ashmore Creelman. It stars Louis Wolheim, Robert Armstrong,… Read more.

  • Back Street (1932)

    Back Street (1932)

    Back Street is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film directed by John M. Stahl and starring Irene Dunne and John Boles. Based on the best-selling novel of the same… Read more.

  • Sunnyside Up (1929)

    Sunnyside Up (1929)

    Sunny Side Up is a 1929 American Pre-Code Fox Movietone musical film starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, with original songs, story, and dialogue by B. G. DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson.… Read more.

  • Discarded Lovers (1933)

    Discarded Lovers (1933)

    Discarded Lovers is a 1932 American Pre-Code mystery film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer with J.Farrell MacDonald, Sharon Lynn and Russell Hopton. Read more.

  • Double Harness (1933)

    Double Harness (1933)

    Double Harness (1933) is an American Pre-Code film starring Ann Harding and William Powell. It was based on the play of the same name by Edward… Read more.

  • Once in A Lifetime (1932)

    Once in A Lifetime (1932)

    Once in a Lifetime is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film based on Once in a Lifetime by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.[1] The film was produced and… Read more.

  • Her Man (1930)

    Her Man (1930)

    Her Man is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film produced and distributed by Pathé Exchange and directed by Tay Garnett.[1] It starred Phillips Holmes, Helen Twelvetrees and Marjorie Rambeau. The film is… Read more.

  • Big News (1929)

    Big News (1929)

    Big News is a 1929 American pre-Code film directed by Gregory La Cava, released by Pathé Exchange, and starring Robert Armstrong and Carole Lombard, billed as “Carol Lombard”. Read more.

  • High Voltage (1929)

    High Voltage (1929)

    High Voltage (1929) is an American pre-Code film produced by Pathé Exchange and directed by Howard Higgin.[1][2]The film stars William Boyd, Diane Ellis, Owen Moore, Phillips Smalley, Billy Bevan, and Carole Lombard in… Read more.

  • Racketeer, The (1929)

    Racketeer, The (1929)

    The Racketeer is a 1929 American Pre-Code drama film. Directed by Howard Higgin, the film is also known as Love’s Conquest in the United Kingdom. It tells… Read more.

  • Behind Office Doors (1931)

    Behind Office Doors (1931)

    Behind Office Doors is a 1931 Pre-Code American drama film directed by Melville W. Brown, from a screenplay by Carey Wilson and J. Walter Ruben, based on Alan Schultz’s… Read more.

  • Lady To Love, A (1930)

    Lady To Love, A (1930)

    A Lady to Love is a 1930 American drama film directed by Victor Sjöström and written by Sidney Howard. The film stars Vilma Bánky, Edward G. Robinson, Robert Ames, Richard… Read more.

  • Locked Door, The (1929)

    Locked Door, The (1929)

    The Locked Door is a 1929 American pre-Code drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Rod LaRocque, Barbara Stanwyck, William “Stage” Boyd, and Betty Bronson. The film is based… Read more.

  • Mexicali Rose (1929)

    Mexicali Rose (1929)

    Mexicali Rose is a 1929 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Erle C. Kenton and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Sam Hardy.[1] A silent and sound version are preserved… Read more.

  • Night Work (1930)

    Night Work (1930)

    Night Work is a Pre Code comedy directed by Russel Mack, released in 1930 and starring Eddie Quillan, Sally Starr… Read more.

  • Tip Off, The (1931)

    Tip Off, The (1931)

    The Tip-Off is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Albert S. Rogell and written by Earl Baldwin. The film stars Eddie Quillan, Robert Armstrong, Ginger Rogers, Joan Peers… Read more.

  • Love Affair (1932)

    Love Affair (1932)

    Love Affair is a 1932 American Pre-Code romantic drama film starring Dorothy Mackaill as an adventurous socialite and Humphrey Bogart as the airplane designer she falls for.… Read more.

  • Midnight AKA Call It Murder (1934)

    Midnight AKA Call It Murder (1934)

    Midnight is a 1934 American drama film directed by Chester Erskine and starring Sidney Fox, O.P. Heggie, Henry Hulland Margaret Wycherly. The film was produced for Universal and was… Read more.

  • Bad Sister, The (1931)

    Bad Sister, The (1931)

    Bad Sister is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Hobart Henley. The screenplay by Edwin H. Knopf, Tom Reed, and Raymond L. Schrock is based on… Read more.

  • Up The River (1930)

    Up The River (1930)

    Up the River (1930) is a pre-Code comedy film about escaped convicts, directed by John Ford and starring Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart in their feature film debuts. The… Read more.

  • Hole In The Wall, The (1929)

    Hole In The Wall, The (1929)

    The Hole in the Wall is a 1929 mystery drama film directed by Robert Florey, and starring Claudette Colbert and Edward G. Robinson. This film… Read more.

  • Little Cafe, The (1930)

    Little Cafe, The (1930)

    The Little Cafe (French:Le petit café) is a 1931 French-language American Pre-Code musical film directed by Ludwig Berger and starring Maurice Chevalier, Yvonne Vallée and Tania Fédor. Read more.

  • Four Frightened People (1934)

    Four Frightened People (1934)

    Four Frightened People is a 1934 American Pre-Code adventure film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Mary Boland, and William Gargan. It is based on… Read more.

  • I Cover the Waterfront (1933)

    I Cover the Waterfront (1933)

    I Cover the Waterfront is a 1933 American Pre-Code romantic drama film directed by James Cruze and starring Ben Lyon, Claudette Colbert, Ernest Torrence, and Hobart Cavanaugh. Based on… Read more.

  • It Happened One Night (1934)

    It Happened One Night (1934)

    Pre Code Hollywood Season: FD Cinematheque It Happened One Night (1934) Director: Frank Capra Cast: Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable, Walter Connolly,… Read more.