Universal has come out with a six-movie pre-Code set, and for those who care about this sort of thing, it's a very big deal. Actually, even if you're one of those people who don't care about this sort ...

In its glory days - the mid-1990s - the Roxie Theater was known for its pre-Code festivals. Now with that theater's glory finally returning, thanks to several highly successful film noir festivals in ...

“Forbidden Hollywood,” Warner Archive’s made-to-order DVD series featuring Pre-Code films, sounds like good, clean – well, dirty – fun. Pre-Code films, made from the late ’20s until 1934, when 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 ...

"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 ...

PRE-CODE is back. For the third time in less than five years, the UCLA Film & Television Archive has come up with a series devoted to this most exciting era of American film, a time when movies were ...

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 ...

A scene from “Three on A Match,” the first film, showing as part of the Lincoln Theater’s Classic Film Club. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. The movies are full of sex, violence, nudity, bad people ...