Among many other adventurous explorations of the studio’s vast catalogue, the manufacture-on-demand Warner Archive Collection has been particularly active in making available on DVD so-called ...

"That was the film that brought Mae West to the movies in a big way," said William Patrick Day, a professor of cinema studies and English at Oberlin College. "She had been a vaudeville and Broadway ...

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 ...

A MoMA series puts the spotlight on a Hollywood era when actresses broke free of stereotypes that would later dominate movies for decades. By Beatrice Loayza In that all-too-brief period in Hollywood ...

Complicated Women: Documentary. Narrated by Jane Fonda. 5 and 7:30 p.m. Tuesday on Turner Classic Movies. Imagine what today's Hollywood actresses would give for a part as juicy as Frances Dee's in ...

The talkies came, the stock market crashed, and Hollywood ran a race against hysteria. For those who like their movies short, snappy, and sensational, not to mention brazenly unencumbered by the ...

About 20 years ago I was in a kind of partnership with another film historian who told me that, no, there wasn’t a market for a book on pre-code movies. I can only wonder what he thinks today after ...

Over a decade ago, Bleeding Cool ran a "Terrible 25" list of great Pre-Code Horror comics on Halloween. Such lists are fairly common around the end of October every year, but as I said back in 2010, ...