Dangerous Men: Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man

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A list of films noted in San Francisco Chronicle Film Critic Mick LaSalle’s book on the transitional depiction of the modern societial male and the actors that made them possible.

Note: Not all the films on the list are strictly Pre-code. A few are examples of movies within the Silent Era and after the Hayes Code was enacted.

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    Ace of Aces (1933)

  2. 2.
    The Ace of Hearts
    by Wallace Worsley
  3. 3.
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    Advice to the Lovelorn (1933)

  4. 4.
    The Affairs of Cellini
    by Gregory La Cava
  5. 5.
    Alias The Doctor [Remaster]
    by Michael Curtiz
  6. 6.
    Alibi
    by Roland West
  7. 7.
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    All of Me (1934)

  8. 8.
    All Quiet on the Western Front (Universal Cinema Classics)
    by Lewis Milestone
  9. 9.
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    Another Language (1933)

  10. 10.
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    Arsene Lupin (1932)

  11. 11.
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    Bad Company (1931)
    by Tay Garnett
  12. 12.
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    The Barbarian (1933)
    by Sam Wood
  13. 13.
    Beast of the City
    by Charles Brabin
  14. 14.
    Beauty And The Boss
    by Roy Del Ruth
  15. 15.
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    Bedside (1934)

  16. 16.
    Ben-Hur (1925)
    by Fred Niblo
  17. 17.
    The Big House (1930)
    by George W. Hill
  18. 18.
    The Big Parade
    by King Vidor
  19. 19.
    A Bill of Divorcement (1932)
    by George Cukor
  20. 20.
    The Black Pirate
    by Albert Parker
  21. 21.
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    Blessed Event (1932)

  22. 22.
    Blonde Crazy (1931)
    by Roy Del Ruth
  23. 23.
    Blonde Venus (1932)
    by Josef von Sternberg
  24. 24.
    Blood & Sand
    by Dorothy Arzner
  25. 25.
    Blood Money (1933)
    by Rowland Brown
  26. 26.
    Bombshell (1933)
    by Victor Fleming
  27. 27.
    Broken Blossoms (Deluxe Edition)
    by D.W. Griffith
  28. 28.
    Broken Lullaby (The Man I Killed) (1932)
    by Ernst Lubitsch
  29. 29.
    Bureau Of Missing Persons
    by Roy Del Ruth
  30. 30.
    The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
    by Michael Curtiz
  31. 31.
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    Call of the Flesh (1930)

  32. 32.
    Cavalcade
    by Frank Lloyd
  33. 33.
    Central Airport
    by William A. Wellman
  34. 34.
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    Central Park (1932)
    by John G. Aldofi
  35. 35.
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    Charming Sinners (1929)

  36. 36.
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    The Conquerors (1932)

  37. 37.
    Counsellor-at-Law
    by William Wyler
  38. 38.
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    Crooner

  39. 39.
    Dance; Fools; Dance
    by Harry Beaumont
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    Dark Hazard (1934)
    by Alfred E. Green
  41. 41.
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    The Dark Horse (1932)
    by Alfred E. Green
  42. 42.
    The Dawn Patrol (1930)
    by Howard Hawks
  43. 43.
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    Daybreak (1931)

  44. 44.
    Death Takes a Holiday (Amazon.com Exclusive)
    by Mitchell Leisen
  45. 45.
    Design for Living (1933)
    by Ernst Lubitsch
  46. 46.
    Devil and the Deep (1932)
    by Marion Gering
  47. 47.
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    Devil-May-Care

  48. 48.
    Dinner at Eight

  49. 49.
    Disraeli
    by Alfred E. Green
  50. 50.
    The Divorcee (1930)
    by Robert Z. Leonard

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