Universal has come out with a six-movie pre-Code set, and for those who care about this sort of thing, it's a very big deal. Actually, even if you're one of those people who don't care about this sort ...

Among many other adventurous explorations of the studio’s vast catalogue, the manufacture-on-demand Warner Archive Collection has been particularly active in making available on DVD so-called ...

It’s only seven little letters, with a hyphen thrown in just for the heck of it, but to people in the know, the phrase “pre-Code” signifies cinematic buried treasure of the most satisfying kind.

Despite only lasting four short years from 1930 to 1934, the pre-code era of Hollywood’s Golden Age produced films that pushed the boundaries of cinema and storytelling, even by today’s standards.

About 20 years ago I was in a kind of partnership with another film historian who told me that, no, there wasn’t a market for a book on pre-code movies. I can only wonder what he thinks today after ...

Its lurid reputation wasn’t enough to prepare me for William Cowen’s “Kongo” (1932), the most out-there of a raft of pre-codes released recently by the Warner Archive Collection — the pioneering and ...

In its glory days - the mid-1990s - the Roxie Theater was known for its pre-Code festivals. Now with that theater's glory finally returning, thanks to several highly successful film noir festivals in ...

Lasting for for 21 issues 1951-1955, Strange Mysteries was a successful Pre-Code Horror title by any standard. Its publisher Superior Publications was a Canadian company that reprinted a wide range of ...

Before the establishment of the Comics Code Authority, horror was able to reign supreme in comic books with stories both gory and goofy that would influence the future of the genre. Super7 is now ...

The series lasted for 11 issues from 1953 to early 1955, likely killed when publisher Superior saw the writing on the wall with the approach of the Comics Code. Surprisingly little is known about the ...