Hollywood got away with a hell of a lot before the Production Code, and Turner Classic Movies is offering a weekly taste of the bounty. Alec Baldwin and TCM‘s Robert Osborne will introduce 24 hours of ...

The great Barbara Stanwyck starred in seven different films with the word "lady" in the title, but in truth she was really more of a dame – "a tough old broad from Brooklyn," in her own words – whose ...

Old movies are old movies, but pre-Code movies are something else — old and new, vintage and yet strangely and refreshingly modern. Pre-Code festivals used to be an annual staple in San Francisco, but ...

As more people got their hands on early film cameras, movies quickly went from snapshots of someone sneezing to workers clocking out to full-blown narratives exploring life, love, and the human ...

Has anyone researched whether movie attendance dropped after Hollywood’s Production Code began to be rigorously enforced, largely at the behest of the Catholic Church, in mid-1934? Certainly things ...

The one man most responsible for popularizing “Pre-code” movies — those racy early talkies turned out by Hollywood before the Production Code Authority cracked down, largely at the behest of the ...

Bruce Goldstein loves movies from the Pre-Code Era. Give him 30 minutes, and he’ll give you the entire history of it. As the founding director of repertory programming at New York’s Film Forum (as ...

Decades after being first denigrated and then forgotten, the glorious class of films known as pre-Code are finally getting the attention they deserve, especially in the world of DVDs. Early sound ...