Pre-Code Hollywood is the era in the American film industry after the introduction of sound (talkies) in the early 1920sLaSalle (2002). pg.1 and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code (Hays Code) censorship guidelines. Although the Code was adopted in 1930, oversight was poor and it did not become effectively enforced until July 1, 1934. Before that date, movie content was restricted more by local laws, negotiations between the Studio Relations Committee (SRC) and the major studios, and popular opinion than strict adherence to the Hays Code, which was often ignored by Hollywood filmmakers.
The criterion for inclusion on this list is the direct mention or discussion of the film as pre-Code in a mainstream source.
Movies 1928
Lights of New York
1929
Alibi Applause The Awful Truth Big News Big Time The Black Watch Broadway The Broadway Melody Bulldog Drummond The Canary Murder Case Captain Lash Careers Close Harmony The Cock-Eyed World The Cocoanuts Condemned Coquette Dance Hall The Delightful Rogue The Desert Song Devil-May-Care Diary of a Lost Girl The Flying Fleet Footlights and Fools The Four Feathers Gold Diggers of Broadway Glorifying the American Girl The Great Gabbo Half Marriage Hallelujah Hell's Heroes Her Private Life High Voltage The Hole in the Wall The Idle Rich In Old Arizona The Lady Lies The Last of Mrs. Cheyney The Letter The Locked Door Lucky Star Madame X Marianne (musical) The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu Our Modern Maidens The Pagan Painted Faces Pointed Heels The Racketeer Redskin Rio Rita The River Sally Salute Street Girl The Saturday Night Kid Seven Footprints to Satan The Single Standard The Squall Sunny Side Up Their Own Desire The Thirteenth Chair This Thing Called Love Thunderbolt The Trespasser The Trial of Mary Dugan Untamed The Valiant The Virginian Voice of the City Where East Is East The Wild Party The Wolf of Wall Street The Wolf Song
1930
Africa SpeaksDoherty. pg. 255 All Quiet on the Western Front Animal CrackersDoherty. pg. 193 Anna Christie Anybody's Woman The Arizona Kid The Bad Man The Big House The Bat Whispers Beau Bandit The Big Pond The Big Trail Billy the Kid The Bishop Murder Case The Blue Angel Born Reckless Bride of the Regiment Bright Lights Call of the Flesh Captain Thunder Charley's Aunt Chasing Rainbows Cheer Up and Smile Children of Pleasure City Girl Clancy in Wall Street Conspiracy The Cuckoos Danger Lights The Dawn Patrol The Devil to Pay! A Devil with Women The Devil's Holiday Dixiana The Divorcee The Doorway to Hell Doughboys Du Barry, Woman of Passion Fast and Loose Feet First Follow Thru For the Defense Golden Dawn Good News The Green Goddess Half Shot at Sunrise Hell Harbor Hell's Angels Hell's Heroes High Society Blues Hold Everything Holiday In Gay Madrid Inside the Lines Just Imagine King of Jazz Kismet Ladies Love Brutes Ladies of Leisure The Lady of Scandal The Lash Laughter Leathernecking Let Us Be Gay Let's Go Native The Life of the Party Liliom Loose Ankles The Lottery Bride The Love Parade Madame Satan Mammy The Man from Blankley's Manslaughter The Matrimonial Bed Maybe It's Love The Melody Man Men Without Women Min and Bill Moby Dick Montana Moon Monte Carlo Morocco Murder! New Moon No, No, Nanette Not So Dumb The Office Wife Oh Sailor Behave One Night at Susie's One Romantic Night Our Blushing Brides Outward Bound Paid The Pay-Off Paramount on Parade Peacock Alley Playing Around Puttin' On the Ritz Queen High Raffles Reaching for the Moon Redemption Renegades Road to Paradise Romance The Rogue Song Rough Romance The Royal Family of Broadway The Runaway Bride Safety in Numbers Sarah and Son The Second Floor Mystery She Couldn't Say No Show Girl in Hollywood The Silver Horde Sin Takes a Holiday The Sins of the Children Sinners' Holiday Slightly Scarlet Son of the Gods Song of the Flame Song of the West The Spoilers Street of Chance Strictly Unconventional Sunny Sweet Kitty Bellairs They Learned About Women Three Faces East Tol'able David True to the Navy The Truth About Youth Under a Texas Moon Up the River The Unholy Three The Vagabond King Viennese Nights The Virtuous Sin War Nurse Way for a Sailor What a Widow! The Woman Racket Whoopee! Young Man of Manhattan
1931
Alexander Hamilton Ambassador Bill An American Tragedy Arizona Arrowsmith Bachelor Apartment Bad Company Bad Girl Bad Sister Beyond Victory Big Business Girl The Blonde CaptiveDoherty. pg. 254 Blonde Crazy Body and Soul Born to Love Bought! Broadminded Captain Applejack Caught Plastered The Champ Chances The Cheat Cimarron City Lights City Streets The Common Law Compromised Confessions of a Co-Ed A Connecticut Yankee Cracked Nuts The Criminal Code Dance, Fools, Dance Daybreak Delicious Dirigible Dishonored Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde DraculaDoherty. pg. 297 The Easiest Way Everything's Rosie Expensive Women Fifty Million Frenchmen Fighting Caravans Five and Ten Five Star Final Flying High Frankenstein A Free Soul Friends and Lovers The Front Page The Gay Diplomat Gentleman's Fate Girls About Town Girls Demand Excitement God's Gift to Women Goldie The Great Lover The Guilty Generation Guilty Hands Hell Divers Her Majesty, Love His Woman A Holy Terror Honor Among Lovers A House Divided Hush Money I Like Your Nerve I Take This Woman Illicit Indiscreet Inspiration Iron Man It Pays to Advertise Kept Husbands Kick In Kiki Ladies' Man Ladies of the Big House The Lady Refuses The Last Flight Laughing Sinners Little Caesar Local Boy Makes Good Lonely Wives M The Mad Genius The Mad Parade Mädchen in Uniform Maker of Men The Maltese Falcon Man of the World The Man Who Came Back Manhattan Parade Mata Hari Men Call It Love Men of Chance Merely Mary Ann Millie The Millionaire The Miracle Woman Monkey Business Morals for Women Never the Twain Shall Meet Night Nurse No Limit Once a Lady Other Men's Women Palmy Days Peach O'Reno The Phantom of Paris Platinum Blonde Possessed Private Lives The Public Defender The Public Enemy Quick Millions The Road to Singapore Safe in Hell The Secret Six The Sin of Madelon Claudet The Sin Ship Sit Tight Six Cylinder Love Smart Money Smart Woman The Smiling Lieutenant Son of India Sporting Blood The Squaw Man Strangers May Kiss Street Scene Strictly Dishonorable Surrender Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) Svengali Tarnished Lady Ten Cents a Dance Tonight or Never Too Many Cooks Trader Horn Transatlantic Traveling Husbands Under Eighteen The Unholy Garden Up Pops the Devil Waterloo Bridge Way Back Home West of Broadway The Woman Between Women of All Nations
1932
20,000 Years in Sing Sing Afraid to Talk After Tomorrow The Age of Consent Air Mail Alias Mary Smith Alias the Doctor American Madness Attorney for the Defense The Animal Kingdom Are You Listening? Arsène Lupin As You Desire Me Bachelor's Affairs Back Street The Beast of the City The Big Broadcast Big City Blues The Big Timer A Bill of Divorcement Bird of Paradise Blessed Event Blonde Venus Blondie of the Follies Broken Lullaby The Cabin in the Cotton Call Her Savage Central Park The Crash The Crowd Roars Cynara The Dark Horse The Devil is Driving Devil and the Deep Disorderly Conduct Divorce in the Family Doctor X Downstairs Emma Faithless The Famous Ferguson Case A Farewell to Arms Fast Life The First Year Flesh Forbidden Freaks Frisco Jenny Girl Crazy The Girl from Chicago Grand Hotel The Greeks Had a Word for Them The Half-Naked Truth The Hatchet ManDoherty. pg. 269 The Heart of New York Hell's Highway Hell's House High Pressure Hold 'Em Jail Horse Feathers Hot Saturday I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang If I Had a Million Impatient Maiden Island of Lost Souls It's Tough to Be Famous Jewel Robbery The Kid from Spain Klondike Kongo Lady and Gent Lady with a Past The Last Mile (1932 film) Lawyer Man Letty Lynton Life Begins The Lost Squadron Love Affair Love Is a Racket Love Me Tonight Madame Butterfly Madame Racketeer Man Wanted The Man Who Played God The Mask of Fu ManchuDoherty. pg. 298 The Match King Me and My Gal Men of Chance Merrily We Go to Hell Million Dollar Legs The Miracle Man Mr. Robinson Crusoe The Most Dangerous Game The Mouthpiece The Mummy Murders in the Rue Morgue New Morals for Old Night After Night Night World No Man of Her Own No More Orchids No One Man The Old Dark House Old Morals for New One Hour with You One Way Passage Panama Flo Payment Deferred The Penguin Pool Murder The Phantom President Polly of the Circus Prestige Probation The Purchase Price Rain Rasputin and the Empress Red Dust The Red-Haired Alibi Red-Headed WomanDoherty. pg. 132 The Rich Are Always with Us Roar of the Dragon Rockabye Scarface Scarlet Dawn Shanghai Express Shopworn The Sign of the Cross The Silent Witness Silver Dollar Sinners in the Sun Sky Devils Skyscraper Souls Slightly Married Smilin' Through So Big! Speak Easily The Sport Parade State's Attorney Strange Interlude Strange JusticeDoherty. pg. 253 The Strange Love of Molly Louvain A Successful Calamity Symphony of Six Million Tarzan the Ape ManDoherty. pg. 257 Taxi! Ten Minutes to Live Tess of the Storm Country That's My Boy Thirteen Women The Thirteenth Guest This Is the Night This Reckless Age Three on a Match Three Wise Girls Trouble in Paradise Two Against the World Two Kinds of Women Vanity Fair Virtue The Washington Masquerade Week-End Marriage Week Ends Only Westward Passage The Wet Parade What Price Hollywood White Zombie Wild Girl The Wiser Sex Winner Take All You Said a Mouthful Young America
1933
42nd Street Ace of Aces After Tonight Air Hostess Ann Carver's Profession Ann Vickers Another Language Baby Face The Barbarian Beauty for Sale Bed of Roses Before Dawn The Bitter Tea of General Yen Blind Adventure Blondie Johnson Blood Money Bombshell The Bowery Brief Moment Broadway Through a Keyhole Broadway to Hollywood Bureau of Missing Persons Captured! Cavalcade Central Airport The Chief Child of Manhattan Christopher Strong College Coach College Humor Convention City Counsellor at Law Dancing Lady Day of Reckoning Design for Living The Devil's Brother Dinner at Eight Diplomaniacs Doctor Bull Double Harness Duck Soup The Eagle and the Hawk Elmer, the Great The Emperor Jones Employees' Entrance Ever in My Heart Ex-Lady Fast Workers Female Flying Devils Flying Down to Rio Footlight Parade From Headquarters From Hell to Heaven Gabriel Over the White House Gambling Ship The Ghoul Girl Missing Girl Without a Room Going Hollywood Gold Diggers of 1933 Goodbye Again Goodbye Love Hallelujah, I'm a Bum Hard to Handle Havana Widows Headline Shooter Hell Below Hello, Sister! Heroes for SaleDoherty. pg. 27 Hold Your Man Hoop-LaVieira. pg. 131 Hot Pepper The House on 56th Street I Am Suzanne I Cover the Waterfront I'm No Angel The Invisible Man International House It's Great to Be Alive Jennie Gerhardt The Kennel Murder Case King Kong King of the Jungle The Kiss Before the Mirror Ladies They Talk AboutVieira. pg. 133 Lady Killer Laughter in Hell The Life of Jimmy Dolan Lilly Turner The Little Giant The Mad Game Made on Broadway Man's Castle Mary Stevens, M.D. The Masquerader The Mayor of Hell Meet the Baron Melody Cruise Men Must Fight Midnight Club Midnight Mary Morning Glory Murders in the Zoo Myrt and Marge