Archive for category: Pre-code Cinema

MOD Movies: ‘Safe in Hell’ and other Pre-Code Pleasures

5 February, 2012 (10:52) | by Sean Axmaker, DVD, Pre-code Cinema | By: Sean Axmaker

11 sassy, sexy and sometimes stiff early sound pictures with attitude from the Warner Archive. When Hollywood was trying to find its way in the early sound era, learning to work around the sudden production constrictions imposed by sound recording and editing while struggling to find its own distinctive voice and delivery, it was also [...]

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Pre-Code Paramount and Fleischer’s Superman – DVDs for the Week

8 April, 2009 (18:25) | Animation, by Sean Axmaker, DVD, Pre-code Cinema | By: Sean Axmaker

Pre-Code Hollywood Collection / Cleopatra: 75th Anniversary Edition Universal Home Video plunges into the sex, sin and bathtub gin of pre-code Hollywood films with their answer to the “Forbidden Hollywood” series from Warner. The Pre-Code Hollywood Collection is branded as part of the “Universal Backlot Series” but it actually collects six films Paramount Pictures (Universal [...]

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William Wellman’s Forbidden Hollywood – DVDs for the Week

23 March, 2009 (13:47) | by Sean Axmaker, DVD, Essays, Pre-code Cinema | By: Sean Axmaker

The studios are finally listening to me! Okay, maybe not, but fifteen months ago I did publish my wish list of Dream DVD Special Editions and Box Sets on GreenCine. Some of those wishes have since come true: Touch of Evil: 50th Anniversary Edition (with all three cuts of the film), The Films of Budd [...]

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