Pre Code Movies

Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom like a stage and often winning his cases. Mobster...

The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison,...

A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhattan.

A spinster dressmaker falls for a ne'er-do-well.

During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.

Returning after a long absence, a man learns the woman he fell in love with on the ship going home is his stepmother.

A spoiled young rich girl is sent to prison for accidentally running down a pedestrian. There she learns about a life and people she had never even...

Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.

Nightclub entertainer Ruby Carter moves from St. Louis to New Orleans to escape Tiger Kid. At Ace Lamont's club, she gains fame but faces drama with...

A young woman's ambitious boyfriend falls for a ditzy socialite.

A talented songwriter gets his inspiration for songs from others and not from within himself. He is oblivious that he may harm other people when he...

An American bandleader woos a Brazilian beauty who is already engaged to his employer. His friends try to help him, while learning the local dance,...

An initially realistic chess game becomes a chaotic, animated quest for the favors of Betty Boop (the black queen) by Bimbo (white king) and others,...

A young lady named Hilda who works as a servant for the wealthy Clarksons, sheep farmers, and dreams of being a great singer. An upcoming visit by...

A carnival pitchman (Tracy) finagles his girlfriend, a fiery hoochie dancer (Vélez), into a major Broadway revue under the auspices of an...

John owns the largest chain of five and ten cent stores in the country. He moves his family to New York from Kansas City and their life, though...

A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.

An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.

Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy.

Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.