Pre Code Movies

After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father.

WBLA is on the air, presenting the live music, the sudsy dramas and the sell-sell-sell of commercial interludes that keep consumers buying and...

An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.

The friendship of two working stiff railroad engineers is put to the test when one falls for the other’s wife.

A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's...

Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed...

A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his social register fianceé can't accept the fact...

A high-spirited and short-tempered Texan woman storms her way through life until her luck runs out, forcing her to learn the error of her ways.

In order to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war.

American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress...

A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.

A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks...

A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

Due to a possible cholera epidemic onboard, passengers on a ship are forced to disembark at Pago Pago, a small village on a Pacific island where it...

New York, 1980: airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food, government-arranged marriages have replaced...

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...

Fame goes to a priggish singer's head and almost costs him his girlfriend.

In this comedy, a pair of ex-Marines team up and get involved in a nightclub. Trouble ensues when they both fall in love with a feisty woman and...

On the French coast, unlucky Marie Galante is abducted and forced to board an American cargo ship bound for the Panama Canal. When an escape attempt...

Dirt-poor mountain girl Trigger Hicks is a loner. Her faith-healing is mistaken for witchcraft by the community. She falls for an engineer building a...