Pre-Code Movies on YouTube 1929-1934
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- DirectorCharles VidorStarsArline JudgePreston FosterMarion BurnsDale Jordan is accepted by first-cabin passengers on a south-bound Panama-Pacific liner until they discover she is a cabaret girls led by Trixie Snell en route for the Bull Ring Cabaret in Panama City.
- DirectorFrank R. StrayerStarsRex LeaseVera ReynoldsPaul HurstPeter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live in a "haunted house".
- DirectorPhil RosenStarsOwen MooreJune CollyerLloyd HughesWhen spoiled Alice Kendall marries Fred Garlan, an up-and-coming entrepreneur, she expects her wealthy lifestyle to remain the same, causing problems in their marriage.
- DirectorHoward HigginStarsBette DavisPat O'BrienJunior DurkinJimmy idolizes bootlegger Matt, and when he refuses to implicate his friend, he is sent to reform school. He befriends Shorty, a boy with a heart condition, and escapes to let the world know about the brutal conditions.
- DirectorNick GrindeStarsBarbara StanwyckRegis ToomeyZasu PittsA poor woman and a man from an upper-class family fall in love, but his mother will go to any lengths to stop their marriage.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellMarjorie WhiteMolly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage her other admirers. Fleeing in his car, Jack ends up in an urban block party where he meets you-know-who.
- DirectorJames FloodElliott NugentStarsWarren WilliamSidney FoxAline MacMahonProsecutor becomes a defense attorney after an innocent man is sent to an electric chair.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsSylvia SidneyWilliam Collier Jr.Estelle TaylorTwenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell's Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interconnects during a summer heatwave.
- DirectorGeorge FitzmauriceStarsRod La RocqueBarbara StanwyckWilliam 'Stage' BoydOn her first anniversary Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character from her own past, and determines to intervene.
- DirectorRussell MackStarsJack OakieSidney FoxAline MacMahonStory of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
- DirectorLionel BarrymoreEdward BuzzellStarsBarbara StanwyckRicardo CortezMonroe OwsleyMen pay a dime to dance with Barbara and her fellow taxi dancers. She marries Eddie and plans to quit dancing. Before she does, she meets a handsome and rich gentleman.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsSpencer TracyPat PatersonJohn BolesPromoter Smoothie King helps a pair of phonies con their way into a movie company. As Wanda heads toward stardom, she turns more and more from King toward the matinée idol. King must decide between his plans and her happiness.
- DirectorWilliam J. CowenStarsOlive BordenMorgan FarleyKen MurrayA young couple marries in secret. Judy's afraid her parents won't approve of Dick and she'll lose her generous allowance. Her parents bring her home from the city where she's been studying art and encourage the attentions of Tom, a persistent suitor. Judy and her jealous husband have an argument that leads her back to the city, a drunken, amorous Tom, and tragedy.
- DirectorFrank R. StrayerStarsMary BrianIrene RichJames HallThe lives of a number of the workers and executives in a Manhattan skyscraper are affected by the actions of a philandering and crooked company boss.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsSpencer TracyClaire LuceWarren HymerWhen paroled trustee Steve and former inmate Judy who try to put their criminal lives behind them are blackmailed, two career criminals come to their rescue.
- DirectorTay GarnettStarsHelen TwelvetreesPhillips HolmesMarjorie RambeauA Havana bar girl with a tough "protector" falls for a young sailor.
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsAnn HardingWilliam PowellLucile BrowneA woman tricks a playboy into marrying her and then tries to make him legitimately fall in love with her.
- DirectorRussell MackStarsEdward Everett HortonEsther RalstonLaura La PlanteA lonely husband whose wife has been away hires a lookalike impersonator to fill his place and fool his mother-in-law while he plays around with a pretty coquette. Confusion prevails when his wife returns that evening.
- DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsNorma TalmadgeGilbert RolandJohn WrayA chorus girl with marital woes is pursued by a gangster.
- DirectorHoward HigginStarsRobert ArmstrongCarole LombardRoland DrewA dapper gangster sponsors an alcoholic violinist in order to win the love of a glamorous divorced socialite.
- DirectorLothar MendesStarsConrad VeidtBenita HumeFrank VosperThe story of life in the 18th century Jewish ghetto of Wurtemburg. Suess tries to better himself with the help of an evil Duke.
- DirectorHoward HigginStarsWilliam BoydCarole LombardOwen MooreA busload of passengers gets stranded in a snowstorm and take refuge in an abandoned church, where they run into a mysterious man who may be on the run from the law.
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsWilliam PowellFlorence EldridgeUllrich HauptAt the end of each year, the extremely wealthy but odious Greene family gets together at the spooky old family castle to establish terms of a will, though they despise each other. This year, they start being mysteriously murdered one by one, and the police use Philo Vance to examine the clues and suspects.
- DirectorRoy William NeillStarsDonald CookGenevieve TobinHardie AlbrightEight people are invited to dinner in a fashionable penthouse apartment. After they are wined and dined, a voice on the radio informs them that they will be murdered unless they manage to outwit the ninth guest: Death.
- DirectorGeorge AbbottBerthold ViertelStarsTallulah BankheadHarvey StephensIrving PichelWoman in debt makes an impulsive investment which doesn't go her way.