Archive for category: Pre-code Cinema

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

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

William Wellman’s Forbidden Hollywood – DVDs for the Week

23 March, 2009 (13:47) | DVD, Essays, Pre-code Cinema, William Wellman, by Sean Axmaker | 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), [...]