An early Better Davis,also starring Joan Blondel, the beautiful Ann Dvorak, and the always suave, wonderful Warren William.
Not a "Christmas movie", by any means, but a must see film!
If I read through this correct, abandoning the code is considered to be a good thing by the author.
I strongly disagree. But I do have my own code. If there is a raw sex scene, any form of homosexuality or any political jabs then we move to a different channel. Minor nudity and a little cussing is OK.
Our favorite movies are actually pre 1968 because they actually have plots, are cleaner and it’s refreshing to see the good guys win all the time. Now there are a few modern day movies and TV shows that fit to our liking, but they are few and far between.
Regarding pre-code days and the original Tarzan movies, there’s one where Jane (Maureen O’Sullivan) is moving so fast that her loin cloth flips up and exposes her private part. You have to be fast to see it, but it’s there.
Marking.
Before Hays there was George Creel, Wilson’s propaganda minister who made sure Hollywood stayed politically correct and on message during WWI. He was more scary than Hays, for behind him stood the federal government at war.
I have a copy of Three on a Match. Ann Dvorak gave an amazing performance.
Baby Face, 1933, with Barbara Stanwyck as a girl who knows how to move up. John Wayne in a minor role.
Well personally I wish they’d bring BACK the Hays code. I avoid the movie most of the time. I don’t want to see sex, hear curses, see nude scenes.
Three on a match is actually a World War 1 superstition. It stems from three soldiers lighting their cigarettes off of one match. A sniper sees the first soldier lighting up, takes aim at the second soldier and shoots the third. So when there are three on a match, one dies.