The last decade has witnessed a revival of interest in the films of "pre-Code" Hollywood, a term covering the bracing period in the early '30s when the movies had learned how to talk and began spouting a number of saucy, even shocking thoughts. Few topics were taboo; flicks were laced with a salutary wisecracking humor that helped ease the pain of the Depression during the pre-Code era, which lasted roughly from 1930, when silent films were at last dead ducks, until mid 1934, when the repressive Production Code began to be... More >>>