Forgotten Pre-Codes: "Afraid to Talk" (1932)
David CairnsCorruption runs rampant in a major city, until a mob hit threatens to expose it all.
The Forgotten
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Forgotten Pre-Codes: "Sing and Like It" (1934)
David CairnsMobsters crash showbiz in this zippy, slangy pre-Code from Hollywood pro William A. Seiter.
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Forgotten Pre-Codes: "Stage Mother" (1933)
David CairnsA scheming stage mother frustrates her daughter’s romances in this pre-Code melo from savage scouser Charles Brabin.
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Forgotten Pre-Codes: "Her Man" (1930)
David CairnsBeginning a series looking at obscure pre-Code Hollywood films, made between the advent of sound and the strict enforcement of the Code.
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The Forgotten: Post-Nuclear Family
David CairnsIshii’s savage slapstick satire subjects a family to reversion to savagery, suburban style.
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The Forgotten: Burden of Cheese Dreams
David CairnsA manic no-budget special effects comedy that achieves a certain cockeyed charm.
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The Forgotten: Lag
David CairnsExtreme slow-motion images of activity in the English countryside, captured by David Gladwell.
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The Forgotten: Pane and Pleasure
David CairnsIn Gustav Machatý’s Erotikon (1929), a series of sexual intrigues results in tragedy and near-tragedy.
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The Forgotten: Boy Meets Girl
David CairnsFred Zinnemann’s war/postwar domestic drama gets closer to reality than Hollywood normally dared.
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The Forgotten: I Heart
David CairnsJean Epstein’s fable of love imperiled. As simple as a fairy tale, but set against stark backgrounds of modern deprivation.
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The Forgotten: Help!
David CairnsMax Linder, king of debonair comedy, works with arch-innovator Abel Gance for the one and only time in this short comedy.
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The Forgotten: The Film of Memory
David CairnsA chambermaid in a run-down hotel becomes enchanted by an aging courtesan, lost in the past, and finds the key to her own future.