Still, "The Pre-Code Hollywood Collection" is the first time Universal has officially recognized its pre-Code treasure trove. Let's hope this is the beginning of a series. Advertisement.

Cecil B. DeMille's "Sign of the Cross" features Charles Laughton as Emperor Nero Claudius Caesar. The film kicks off the Film Geeks SD's Breaking the Commandments: Pre-Code Hollywood series at ...

Ooh, la la! "Forbidden Hollywood" offers four entertaining films from Hollywood's spicy "pre-code" era — a time before the censoring Hays Code began spoiling the fun.

“Forbidden Hollywood,” Warner Archive’s made-to-order DVD series featuring Pre-Code films, sounds like good, clean – well, dirty – fun. Pre-Code films, made from the late ’20s until ...

PRE-CODE is back. For the third time in less than five years, the UCLA Film & Television Archive has come up with a series devoted to this most exciting era of American film, a time when movies ...

Over at The Toast, Mallory Ortberg takes a tour through Hollywood's pre-Code era, recommending movies left and right—some of them because they're good, some of them because they're weird and ...

The risky years that resulted in the enforcement of the Production Code are the focus of two new non-fiction books: Mark Vieira’s “Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood” (Harry N. Abrams ...

“Pre-Code Hollywood did not adhere to the strict regulations on matters of sex, vice, violence, and moral meaning forced upon the balance of Hollywood cinema,” writes Thomas Doherty in his ...

Complicated Women: Documentary. Narrated by Jane Fonda. 5 and 7:30 p.m. Tuesday on Turner Classic Movies. Imagine what today's Hollywood actresses would give for a part as juicy as Frances Dee's ...

In the five years from the full-scale arrival of sound to the clampdown of the Production Code in July 1934, Hollywood heroines "took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating ...