Pre-Code Hollywood New Releases.

[Louie]

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htf...m-forbidden-hollywood-volume-3-announced.html

 

[mike]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALRIGHT!!!! William Wellman is my favorite!!!! What an awesome collection!!!


And since I have your ear Louie, any word on more shirts?! I'd still love to get a long sleeve NRA shirt for a friend!

 

[Louie]

Oh yeah, I still got tons more NRA shirts left, PM me what size you are looking for and where I'm sending it to and I can get you a total. Thanks!

 

[mike]

Oh yeah, I still got tons more NRA shirts left, PM me what size you are looking for and where I'm sending it to and I can get you a total. Thanks!

I think you need to empty your mailbox, I actually tried messaging you about it a few days ago.

 

[Louie]

It's totally empty.

 

[Red Diabla]

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htf...m-forbidden-hollywood-volume-3-announced.html

AUGH. I hope to be working for WB when it's out so that I can pick it up on the cheap. I LOVED the second installment...I had no idea Norma Shearer was such a hussy! The commentaries were wonderful too...great stuff!

RD

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

Oh yeah, I have a mad crush on Norma Shearer. Wish I had a time machine.

 

[skyvue]

William Wellman is my favorite!!!! What an awesome collection!!!

I'm a huge Wellman fan, too, and that collection sounds great -- have you read his memoir? I keep meaning to.

Oh yeah, I have a mad crush on Norma Shearer. Wish I had a time machine.

Have you read Gavin Lambert's Shearer biography? I finished it last week and recommend it.

 

[Amy Jeanne]

Pre-Code Box Set to be released in April

I'm utterly thrilled by this! I've only seen two of them (Murder At The Vanities & Torch Singer). I can't wait to see Merrily We Go To Hell and (especially) The Search For Beauty. I haven't heard of the others, but they look delicious. Universal and Paramount pre-Codes are a rare treat!

http://www.classicflix.com/precode-...ger-murder-vanities-search-beauty-p-8168.html

 

[skyvue]

That's a nice collection. The only one I've not seen is THE CHEAT, but I'll happily revisit the others, too.

 

[mike]

Very cool! I can't wait! Between this and Forbidden Hollywood Vol 3, this is going to be a great few months!

 

[scotrace]

OK, without violating Lounge rules, let me venture into very carefully considered territory and ask if any mainstream pre-code films would actually garner any kind of cautionary rating in 2009? Were there any mainstream (from the big studios) films with outright nudity, profanity, etc., besides the commonly known Hedy Lamarr bit(s)?

 

[BeBopBaby]

Maureen O'Sullivan was completely nude in the infamous swim scene from Tarzan. While I don't remember any full frontal nudity, it didn't leave much to the imagination.

 

[mike]

I think they were a lot more imaginative as far as what was shocking back then. Today's version of "profanity" is similar to how a modern "horror" movie tries to shock a person with an overload of gore and loud noises.

 

[mike]

Maureen O'Sullivan was completely nude in the infamous swim scene from Tarzan. While I don't remember any full frontal nudity, it didn't leave much to the imagination.

I think that's the point, you don't need to actually see stuff for it to have an affect. As a matter of fact, quoting Lemmy "The chase is better than the catch!" In the hands of artists, not seeing can be much more powerful than seeing.

 

[skyvue]

OK, without violating Lounge rules, let me venture into very carefully considered territory and ask if any mainstream pre-code films would actually garner any kind of cautionary rating in 2009?

There's nothing graphic, but the plot of BABY FACE might be a tough sell today, unless Barbara Stanwyck's character was made into an evil character.

I think the same might be true of FEMALE.

By the way, both of those films are being shown in Breadlines and Champagne, an upcoming series of 1930s pictures at NYC's Film Forum.

 

[Amy Jeanne]

Very cool! I can't wait! Between this and Forbidden Hollywood Vol 3, this is going to be a great few months!

REALLY!!!??? When can we expect this and what films are included??

 

[mike]

I'm a huge Wellman fan, too, and that collection sounds great -- have you read his memoir? I keep meaning to.



Have you read Gavin Lambert's Shearer biography? I finished it last week and recommend it.

A Short Time for Insanity? I'm halfway through, it's all over the place as he wrote it while on tons of painkillers but really well worth the read!

 

[mike]

REALLY!!!??? When can we expect this and what films are included??

It showcases the Wonderful William Wellman!
http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?p=719607#post719607

 

[skyvue]

A Short Time for Insanity? I'm halfway through, it's all over the place as he wrote it while on tons of painkillers but really well worth the read!

Good to know -- thanks.