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Missing Films pre-Code Doozies

There is a wonderful article in the New York Review of Books 2 July 2009 Issue; 'When Hollywood Dared' describing the films, new with sound,  before the 1934 Production Code came to rule.  I have not had a chance to look through the data base here to see if they are included or not ( the article mentions about 40 or 50 that I will check on when I have a chance )

here is, I hope, a good link to it ( unfortunately the link is only good to the first portion of the article, one must be a subscriber to read the remaining bulk of the article ):

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=22790

I often wondered about the sugar coating found in films afterwards and this article, at least to me, explains the reasons.

I love some of the titles:

Merrily we go to Hell

Other Men's Woman

Wild Boys of the Road

Blondie Johnson

Strangers Kiss

Employee's Entrance

Naughty Flirt ( any title with 'Naughty' in it, does it for me )

the all sound like Noir, and from the article's vantage, they were, for Noir I think, exposes some very raw edges ( emotions/motivations/doom ) missing from other films of the same periods.

( I still cannot link films while using Google Chrome browser )

Re:Missing Films pre-Code Doozies

Puhnner:

There is a wonderful article in the New York Review of Books 2 July 2009 Issue; 'When Hollywood Dared' describing the films, new with sound,  before the 1934 Production Code came to rule.  I have not had a chance to look through the data base here to see if they are included or not ( the article mentions about 40 or 50 that I will check on when I have a chance )

here is, I hope, a good link to it ( unfortunately the link is only good to the first portion of the article, one must be a subscriber to read the remaining bulk of the article ):

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=22790

I often wondered about the sugar coating found in films afterwards and this article, at least to me, explains the reasons.

I love some of the titles:

Merrily we go to Hell

Other Men's Woman

Wild Boys of the Road

Blondie Johnson

Strangers Kiss

Employee's Entrance

Naughty Flirt ( any title with 'Naughty' in it, does it for me )

the all sound like Noir, and from the article's vantage, they were, for Noir I think, exposes some very raw edges ( emotions/motivations/doom ) missing from other films of the same periods.

( I still cannot link films while using Google Chrome browser )

I don't want to deny your suggestion too harshly here Puhn, but Noir as it is labeled would not apply to any movies in the 30s.  I don't think think there are any movies made prior to the 40s that were ever really given the label of Noir.  But certainly it was these pre-code type of subjects and depections that the Noir films were trying to bring back.

Re:Missing Films pre-Code Doozies

excuse my oversimplification and inarticulateness; I said, they seem to me to be, not, they are.  Now, not that Wiki can always be relied upon, but please check this out; particularly the 'Precursors' section for what I was attempting to allude to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_noir

note the interesting references to Dracula, The Mummy, The Black Cat, and The Invisible Man...typically seen as Horror.