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"Three Pre-Code masterpieces by three great directors: William Wellman, Mervyn LeRoy and Clarence Brown. It took 30 years for movies to get this wild again."

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The Complete Voodoo: Volume 2

Jack Kamen, Matt Baker and Ruth Roche

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This new volume includes Pre-Code classics like "They Couldn't Die!", "Torture Travelogue",...

James Gray recommended I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932) in Movies (curated)

I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)

1932 | Classics, Drama, Mystery

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"I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, 1932. This is excellent. It was pre-Code. Ferocious movie. Paul Muni, incredibly intense. It was really the best picture I think Mervyn LeRoy ever did, by far. Maybe the production code got in the way after that. He made another movie called They Won’t Forget, which is supposed to be great, but I don’t love it. I think it’s probably because the production code got in the way and it sort of neutered him a little bit. No spoilers, but the ending of Chain Gang, I couldn’t forget about it for days."

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Bill Condon recommended The Love Parade (1929) in Movies (curated)

The Love Parade (1929)

1929 | Classics, Comedy, Musical

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"Pop in 1929’s The Love Parade and watch the movie musical being invented. These pre-Code movies are sophisticated in a way that musicals weren’t again until Cabaret in the 1970s. (Although none of them holds up quite as well as Rouben Mamoulian’s Love Me Tonight, which is screaming out for a Criterion reissue.)"

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