Oscar-winning Director Victor Fleming deftly orchestrates the script's tense drama and hilarious erotic comedy, helping Gable and Harlow turn Red Dust into pure gold.

William Powell, Kay Francis and David Manners star in the tempting pre-Code quartet of Jewel Robbery, Lawyer Man, Man Wanted and They Call It Sin.

Jimmy Cagney (Hard to Handle), Warren William (The Mind Reader), Barbara Stanwyck (Ladies They Talk About) and Joan Blondell (Miss Pinkerton) star in tales of pre-Code crime.

Jean Harlow and Clark Gable followed the smash success of Red Dust with this tale of a tough cookie and a flimflam man who find out that they're perfect for each other — and that love and honor have a lot in common, too.

Myrna Loy and Irene Dunne star in a terrifying tale of one woman’s relentless lethal revenge against the women who crossed her in finishing school. Based on the novel by Tiffany Thayer.

Wallace Beery stars as a ruthless mob boss loosely based on Al Capone in this hardboiled Pre-Code crime saga costarring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in her M-G-M debut.

Karen Morley portrays unfortunate Jenny, who plans to blackmail her rich and powerful paramours at a posh soiree. Instead, she is murdered.

Bright Lights sees Dorothy Mackaill as a Broadway star whose retirement is stalled by a little murder, while The Reckless Hour sees her as a young girl victimized by the playboy class.

James Cagney kicks serious asphalt in director Howard hawk’s high-speed thrill ride costarring Joan Blondell and Ann Dvorak.

Ruth Chatterton and Bebe Daniels star in this pair of riches to rags tales of society ladies forced to rejoin the working world.

The pre-Code era’s most sin-tillating stars sizzle in a four-film collection that exposes the social and sexual mores of a not-so-innocent time.

Warren William, Loretta Young, Bette Davis and Edward G. Robinson star in four pre-Code sizzlers, where sins go unpunished and virtue is rarely rewarded.

Lee Tracy portrays raspy Alvin Roberts, whose zest for unearthing short marriage-to-maternity spans among Broadway’s notables lifts him from lowly clerk to tabloid king.

Call girl Gilda Karlson is wanted for the murder of the man that led her into prostitution. Fleeing the authorities, she finds deadly sanctuary on an island of criminals.

In State’s Attorney, John Barrymore dazzles courtroom audiences and movie audiences alike as Cardigan, a mob-mouthpiece-turned-principled prosecutor.

In her first Talkie, Joan Crawford plays Bingo, a jungle-raised oil heiress, who turns Manhattan upside down in her hunt for Andy McAllister (Robert Montgomery), the man of her dreams.

The story whisks audiences off to Paris with a fashion sharpie and a designer who hope to bootleg the hottest haute couture and flood New York with knockoffs.

Louise Fazenda makes an unlikely flapper in Loose Ankles, playing the disapproving aunt of free-spirited Loretta Young. The Naughty Flirt is kewpie-doll cutie Alice White, an heiress whose love life is a mess – thanks to villainess Myrna Loy.

Two friends who work as riveters and romantic rivals until one unknowingly marries his pal’s “special” lady friend.

If it’s scandalous, sensational and hush-hush, New York columnist William Poster is the guy who lurks inside the speakeasies or slips beyond the backstage doors to find it.

Some eight months after the release of Freaks, another bizarre and unforgettable movie stunned screen audiences – the feverish tale of black magic and sadism called Kongo.

Joan Blondell delivers the brass in a pair of scintillating pre-Code capers.

Kay Francis plays an aging gold-digger who finds that love may be waiting for her when the jig is finally up. With Nigel Bruce (Sherlock Holmes) and Margaret Hamilton (Wizard of Oz).

They have four weeks to find happiness in each other’s arms. Dan does not know that Joan is dying of an incurable disease. Joan does not know Dan is a convicted murderer en route to San Quentin. This shipboard romance is doomed.

The Age of Consent is both a candid time capsule of a vanished Hollywood era and a surprisingly timeless exploration of young love.

Dorothy Mackaill stars in a pair of pre-code romantic dramas that test the boundaries of domestic bliss.

Broadway and silent-screen legend Elsie Ferguson stars in her only talking picture, a scandalous tale of murder, sin and redemption.

They smash through skylights, tumble down staircases, drop from a high rooftop into a waiting convertible – the only fall Skipper Clark and his pals won’t take is to fall in love.

A factory girl becomes the mistress of a Park Avenue lawyer who will give her everything except a marriage proposal.

The winner of 11 straight cups at Hoffman’s Parisian Dance Palace, Bill Cleaver (Grant Withers) cinches the waltz contest with newcomer Molly O’ Neil, the niftiest little trick in town.

One kiss could kill him! Frank Fay, Joan Blondell and Louise Brooks sparkle in a pre-Code bedroom farce about a debonair heart patient who dares not pucker up for the girl he loves.

A hard-drinking socialite home from WWI combat weds a party girl after being jilted by his fiancée. Silent-screen idol John Gilbert stars in one of his transitions to the Talkies.

The setting: a gas station in the middle of a sweltering desiccated nowhere. The women: Olga, a wary, weathered loner with a knack for fixing cars, and Myra, her pretty kid sister who dishes up diner chow and dreams of romance.

Story of a Depression-downtrodden waif (Blondell) who uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss. A terrific supporting cast comes along for the rags-to-rackets ride through all the murder and double-crossing.

Dartmouth football heroes Johnny Baker and Sandy Brown go their separate ways after graduation. The friends’ paths merge again when Johnny helps Sandy out of tough economic times.

Two young men enlist to avoid the law, only to find war, peace and love. Michael Curtiz directs, silent comedy king Harry Langdon co-stars.

The richest woman in the world has everything money can buy. But with her heart torn between her faithless husband and an ardent writer, she can’t have the one thing every woman wants.

A teen-age Loretta Young is the star attraction in this pair of pre-Code romantic dramas.

Loretta Young stars in a pre-Code pair that showcases her range – easily encompassing the roles of teen delinquent and suffering hausfrau.

Girl Missing - gal pals Glenda Farrell and Mary Brian set out to solve the mystery of a gold digger who disappears during her honeymoon. In Illicit Barbara Stanwyck portrays a woman devoted to her man but prefers cohabitation over marriage.

A naval hero copes with the media and manipulators of overnight fame. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Mary Brian and Walter Catlett star in a satiric pre-Code comedy-drama.

A young woman flees the small town life, only to find she can not escape her heart.

Charlotte Greenwood and Leila Hyams star in this racy Pre Code comedy as two wives who catch their philandering husbands in the act and do their best to get even.

Demoted to working in the “kindergarten” of the police department, tough cop Butch Saunders (Pat O’Brien) goes all soft at the center when a sweet blonde (Bette Davis) walks into the Bureau of Missing Persons looking for her missing husband.

Bette Davis stars with George Brent and Ann Dvorak as the “other woman” who intrigues to destroy the marriage of a struggling office manager and a stay-at-home mother and housewife.

Winnie Lightner single-handedly keeps a circus on its feet after its performers quit the show in this delightful big top comedy costarring Charles Butterworth.

Gertie Waxted knows how a notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she’s long been under the hoodlum’s thumb. No more. She’s secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durantin a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug.

Warren William shows his range in 3 flicks that helped audiences forget the Depression. In The Woman from Monte Carlo, he plays a lieutenant who hides his commander’s wife in his stateroom. He's an insurance conman with advice in Don’t Bet on Blondes. He gets more laughs as the Times Square Playboy.

Strife and mayhem follow after a wealthy bridegroom moves in with his wife's working-class family. Based on the play "White Collars" by Edith Ellis.

A Depression-era working girl goes from ugly duckling to graceful swan, and wish-fulfillment reigns in Beauty and the Boss, a sometimes racy pre-Production Code comedy. Marian Marsh portrays the emerging beauty and Warren William is the boss.

The film follows the misfortunes of an unwed mother who gets mixed up with a wealthy seducer, a thief, a cynical newshound, a devoted bellhop, a sleazy dancehall, gun-blazing crime and plenty of heartache.

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 sponsors smiling. But one sponsor, a producer of plumbing supplies, isn’t happy.

Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression. Those you make. And those you take. Determined to help her family out of its financial bind, she is ready to do both.

Playboy and ne’er-do-well Gordon Bates is dead. There are suspects aplenty. From Headquarters come the army of crime specialists – toxicologists, fingerprint experts, ballistic experts, and for good measure, authorities on the use of invisible ink.

Jim Blaine dares death every day as an aviation pioneer. But when it comes to marrying the beautiful parachute jumper he’s gone loop-de-loop for – well, that’s scary. Richard Barthelmess dons goggles and leather cap in the wild blue yonder.

Mary Turner was convicted of a crime she didn’t commit. Once an innocent shop girl, now embittered by three years in the pen, Mary has big plans after her release.

A brother and sister risk their lives to expose the gangsters who ruined their family.

Couturier Natalie Upton, finds happiness in the arms of a married man…until her kid brother comes to town. He and the daughter of Natalie’s lover are engaged and the young couple demand that the scandalous affair end – now!

Stephan may be young, but he’s made a name for himself as a skilled, compassionate surgeon. But it’s actually Karl, his foster brother, who is the surgeon. And behind Karl’s use of his brother’s identity lies a tale of secrets, love and sacrifice.

An escaped convict and the detective tasked with hunting him down end up working in parallel to clear the convict’s name and nab the gangsters that framed him.

No smoking. No drinking. No lipstick. Pretty Virginia Radcliffe earnestly accepts the strict rules enforced by exclusive Crockett Hall. Have a smoke, have a drink and have a wild weekend in New York, suggests her roommate Pony Ferris.

A policeman must rescue his wife from gangsters.

In Side Streets a shopkeeper marries an easygoing sailor for love. But he’s marrying for a meal ticket. In Stranger in Town small-town coot Ulysses Crickle's tiny grocery faces ruin when a national chain opens a store right across the street.

A brisk, decades-spanning melodrama that links the big turns of Peggy Martin's life. Peggy sacrifices her happiness and her home for that of a young woman in debt who will never know Peggy is her supposedly long-dead mother.

Romantic drama about a woman rescued from a suicide attempt by a Salvation Army preacher.

When Sally, the Coney Island saltwater-taffy girl waves a semaphore message of “I Love You” to a destroyer as it departs New York for World War I each of the sailors – hopes the message is for him.

Beautiful young Laura Murdock chooses the easiest way out of the slums: become the plaything of her wealthy boss. No ring, but lots of clothes, servants and glamour. It’s just what Laura wants, until she falls in love with another man.

Mike Bolton (Phillips Holmes) has not spoken to his convict father, John (Grant Mitchell) for 18 years. But Mike finds filial ties hard to break, even when accused of robbery…

The Depression is a tough time to fall in love, but young Marje and her gas-jockey beau Blacky take their chance at heaven. The two plan a future together until a spoiled society girl moves to town, and dazzles handsome Blacky.

A snappy action-comedy about an ex-sailor with a nifty boat-engine design who talks his way into a job with a millionaire shipbuilder, constructs his dream speedboat on the millionaire’s dime and wins the love of his boss’s daughter.

The twenties were a wild time when gangsters ruled the streets and gambling was their favorite pastime. This fast-moving drama captures the feel and flare of these "roaring '20s."

Someone shot Angie the Ox dead around midnight. Word is that rival Lance McGowan is who, and the gendarmes aim to find a nice chair with straps and high voltage for him. Lance needs a Midnight Alibi.