Category: Cinematheque Live

Big Pond, The (1930)

The Big Pond is a 1930 American Pre-Code romantic comedy film based on a 1928 play of the same name by George Middleton and A.E. Thomas.[1] The… Read more.
Safety In Numbers (1930)

Safety in Numbers is a 1930 American Pre-Code musical comedy film. Directed by Victor Schertzinger, it stars Buddy Rogers, and features Kathryn Crawford, Josephine Dunn, and Carole Lombard (in… Read more.
White Woman (1933)

White Woman is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Stuart Walker and starring Carole Lombard, Charles Laughton, and Charles Bickford.[1] A young widow remarries and accompanies her husband… Read more.
Before Morning (1933)

Before Morning is a 1933 American Pre-Code crime drama directed by Arthur Hoerl, and starring Leo Carrillo, Lora Baxter, and Taylor Holmes. The film was adapted for the… Read more.
Lena Rivers (1932)

Lena Rivers, aka The Sin of Lena Rivers, is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Phil Rosen based on the 1856 novel by Mary… Read more.
Millie (1931)

Millie (1931) is a pre-Code drama film directed by John Francis Dillon from a screenplay by Charles Kenyon and Ralph Morgan, based on a novel of the same name… Read more.
Applause (1929)

Applause is a 1929 black-and-white backstage musical talkie, shot at Paramount’s Astoria Studios in Astoria, New York, during the early years of sound films. The film is notable… Read more.
Topaze (1933)

Topaze is a 1933 American Pre-Code film based on the French play of the same name by Marcel Pagnol. Another film version of Topaze, this one made in the… Read more.
Ten Cents a Dance (1931)

Ten Cents a Dance is a 1931 American pre-Code romance-drama film directed by Lionel Barrymore and starring Barbara Stanwyck as a married taxi dancer who falls in love with… Read more.
Half Marriage (1929)

Half Marriage is an American melodramatic Pre-Code film directed by William J. Cohen from a script by Jane Murfin, based on the short story of… Read more.
Borrowed Wives (1930)

Borrowed Wives is a 1930 American Pre-Code film directed by Frank R. Strayer. Read more.
Sensation Hunters (1933)

Sensation Hunters is a 1933 American Pre-Code B-movie directed by Charles Vidor and released by Monogram Pictures. Read more.
Trouble in Paradise (1932)

Trouble in Paradise is a 1932 American Pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, and Herbert Marshall and featuring Charles Ruggles and Edward Everett Horton. Read more.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1931)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1931 American pre-Code horror film, directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Fredric March, who plays a possessed doctor who… Read more.
Stolen Jools, The (1931)

The Stolen Jools (1931) is a short comedy film produced by the Masquers Club of Hollywood, featuring many cameo appearances by film stars of the day. The… Read more.
Tangled Destinies (1932)

Tangled Destinies is a 1932 American film directed by Frank R. Strayer. The film is also known as Who Killed Harvey Forbes? in the United… Read more.
Framed (1930)

Framed is an 1930 American pre-Code crime action film, directed by George Archainbaud, based on a screenplay by Paul Schofield and Wallace Smith. It starred Evelyn Brent, William Holden (no relation to… Read more.
Money Means Nothing (1934)

1934 pre code films directed by Christy Cabanne and with Wallace Ford, Edgar Kennedy and Gloria Shea. Read more.
Reaching for the Moon (1930)

Reaching for the Moon is a 1930 American Pre-Code black and white musical film. Originally released at 91 minutes; surviving versions are usually cut… Read more.
World Gone Mad, The (1933)

The World Gone Mad (also released as The Public Be Hanged) is a 1933 American Pre-Code crime film directed by Christy Cabanne and starring Pat O’Brien, Evelyn Brent and Neil Hamilton.[1] It… Read more.
Phantom Broadcast, The (1933)

The Phantom Broadcast is a Pre Code film released in 1933 and directed by Phil Rosen, starring Ralph Forbes, Vivienne… Read more.
X Marks The Spot (1931)

X Marks the Spot is a 1931 American pre-Code crime drama film, directed by Erle C. Kenton and released by Tiffany Pictures, which operated from 1921 to… Read more.
Vampire Bat, The (1933)

The Vampire Bat is a 1933 American pre-Code horror film starring Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas, and Dwight Frye. Read more.
Sin Takes a Holiday (1930)

Sin Takes a Holiday is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic comedy film, directed by Paul L. Stein, from a screenplay by Horace Jackson, based on… Read more.
Twin Husbands (1933)

Twin Husbands is a 1933 American Pre-Code film directed by Frank R. Strayer. Read more.