Tag Archives: Warner Archive Collection

GOD’S GIFT TO WOMEN (1931) from Warner Archive: One Kiss and You Die!

Posted on January 2, 2013 by willmckinley

The year is 1931. Three undressed women catfight over the lover they share – wrestling in his bed, tearing at each other’s skimpy negligees. One of them is Louise Brooks, pansexual star of some of the sultriest silent films ever … Continue reading →

Posted in Classic Film, Pre-Code Film, Warner Archive Collection | Tagged "Raymond Griffith", 1931, A STAR IS BORN, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Barbara Stanwyck, Billy House, Charles Winniger, DIARY OF A LOST GIRL, Eleanor Gutchrlein, Frank Fay, Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, G.W. Pabst, GOD'S GIFT TO WOMEN, Hays Code, Joan Blondell, Joseph Jackson, Karla Gutchrlein, Laura La Plante, Louise Brooks, Margaret Livingston, Michael Curtiz, Motion Picture Production Code, Norman Maine, PANDORA’S BOX, Pre-Code Film, Safe in Hell, Sisters G, The Code, The Devil Was Sick, Warner Archive Collection, Warner Bros, Yola d’Avril | 5 Comments

THE AGE OF CONSENT (1932) from Warner Archive: Pre-Code Passion At Its Most Lustful

Posted on November 4, 2012 by willmckinley

People in old movies don’t seem to know how to kiss. Without a doubt, there are plenty of iconic lip locks from the films of the 1930s and ‘40s, often accompanied by lush orchestrations that infer burning passion. But characters … Continue reading →

Posted in Classic Film, Pre-Code Film, Warner Archive Collection | Tagged 1932, Aileen Pringle, Arline Judge, David O. Selznick, Dorothy Wilson, Eric Linden, Franchot Tone, Gregory La Cava, John Halliday, Motion Picture Production Code, REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, Reginald Barlow, Richard Cromwell, RKO, SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS, Sylvia Sidney, THE AGE OF CONSENT, Warner Archive Collection, Will Hays | 6 Comments

Vincent Price in CONFESSIONS OF A OPIUM EATER (1962) – Still Trippy After All These Years

Posted on October 7, 2012 by willmckinley

What attracted me first to CONFESSIONS OF AN OPIUM EATER (1962) was the poster. Our story, courteous reader, begins in late November of 2008. I was in Framingham, Massachusetts, working on the production of a meeting for pharmaceutical sales reps. … Continue reading →

Posted in Classic Film, Warner Archive Collection | Tagged Albert Glasser, Albert Zugsmith, Allied Artists, Angelo Rossitto, CONFESSIONS OF AN OPIUM EATER, Dawn Wells, Gabriel De Quincey, Gilligan's Island, June Kim, Linda Ho, Mary Ann, Peter Tork, Phillip Ahn, Richard Loo, SEX KITTENS GO TO COLLEGE, SOULS FOR SALE, The Monkees, Thomas De Quincey, Vincent Price, Warner Archive Collection, Yvonne Moray | 12 Comments

Pre-Code Classics Shine Again in “Forbidden Hollywood” Volumes 4 and 5 from Warner Archive

Posted on September 11, 2012 by willmckinley

“For me, the real ‘Classic Era’ in Hollywood was the mid-1930s until about 1959,” host Robert Osborne said at the third annual TCM Classic Film Festival in April. Coincidentally, those years also bookend the period during which the Motion Picture … Continue reading →

Posted in Classic Film, Pre-Code Film | Tagged Barbara Stanwyck, Classic film, First National PIctures, FOOTLIGHT PARADE, Forbidden Hollywood Volume 4, Forbidden Hollywood Volume 5, HARD TO HANDLE, James Cagney, JEWEL ROBBERY, Joan Blondell, Joseph Breen, Kay Francis, LADIES THEY TALK ABOUT, LAWYER MAN, Loretta Young, MAN WANTED, MISS PINKERTON, Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Pre-Code Film, Robert Osborne, TCM, The Breen Office, The Code, The Hays Office, THE MIND READER, The Motion Picture Production Code, THEY CALL IT SIN, Turner Classic Movies, Warner Archive Collection, Warner Bros, Warren William, Will H. Hays, Will Hays, William Powell | 8 Comments

Tag Archives: Warner Archive Collection

GOD’S GIFT TO WOMEN (1931) from Warner Archive: One Kiss and You Die!

Vincent Price in CONFESSIONS OF A OPIUM EATER (1962) – Still Trippy After All These Years

Pre-Code Classics Shine Again in “Forbidden Hollywood” Volumes 4 and 5 from Warner Archive

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