Pre Code Movies

A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer...

An ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding...

Unscrupulously ambitious, Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and, through bluff and bravado, finds himself the emperor of a...

While waiting out World War I in a German POW camp, Captain Fred Allison discovers that his oldest and dearest friend Digby has also been captured...

Dan works for Pritchard and Pritchard out of San Francisco and is in love with Maisie, referred to as "the icebox" by his news reporter friend. As...

A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.

The top brass at a radio station believe their popular new star singer is paying more attention to his love life than to his career.

A young American man is transported back to London in the time shortly after the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.

WWI pilots Cary, Shep, Bill, and Francis, traumatized by the devastation of the war, head to Paris instead of home, where they meet the eccentric and...

A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate out west.

Joe Palooka is a naive young man whose father Pete was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused Joe's mother Mayme to leave him and to take young...

Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then she becomes inexplicably locked in her hotel room,...

Rose Manning swears revenge for the unjust slaying of her father by Inspector McArthur. Five years later, as a nightclub hostess, she is sought by...

A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.

A trio of veteran pilots joins an aerial circus.

A reporter helps the police investigate the murder of a disagreeable and philandering actor who is found strangled to death in his theater dressing...

Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.

A plantation owner's wife goes on trial for shooting a man she says attacked her, but a handwritten letter reveals otherwise.

Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even...

On a voyage to Nome, Roy Glenister, one of the several owners of a rich mine, The Midas, is captivated by Helen Chester, while he both fascinates and...