A short thread of #PreCode podcast episodes for #PreCodeApril. I’ve yet to find a podcast dedicated exclusively to Pre-Code movies, so if you come across one (or start one), please let me know. #PreCodePodcasts
Feels appropriate to start off with photographer A.L. “Whitey” Schafer’s wonderful Thou Shalt Not image, created in 1941 to satirise the Hays Code restrictions. More background here: ladailymirror.com/2013/11/04/mar…
Here’s my @letterboxd list of over 800 #PreCode films (I’m still adding to it). The top 50 are personal favourites / recommendations / Pre-Code must-sees. Also, everything from around 650 onwards is on the Pre-Code Movies YouTube channel. #PreCodeAprilletterboxd.com/filmfan1971/li…
Henry Lloyd-Hughes and Darci Shaw presenting the London Critics Circle nominations. Their upcoming @NetflixUK series, The Irregulars, sounds fun. @londoncritics#criticscirclenoms
Some alternative posters for Cry Danger (1951), along with what they used to call a lobby card - there are a few others on the film’s IMDb page too. #Noirvember#CryDanger
Contrast the American posters with these two much racier French and Italian posters, both of which foreground Fleming. #Noirvember
This was great fun. Powell plays Rocky (it doesn’t suit him), an ex-con who gets out of jail after serving 5 years for a robbery he didn’t commit and goes after the gangster who framed him. Fleming plays the wife of Powell’s supposed partner in the robbery, who’s still in jail.