Blondes at Work (1938), fourth of the Torchy Blane B-movies. Fast-talking feisty girl reporter Torchy has scooped her rivals yet again and is on the trail of a murderer. Light breezy fun and Glenda Farrell is delightful as always.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/08/blondes-at-work-1938.html

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Bulldog Drummond’s Secret Police (1939), a late entry in the series. There's hidden treasure, a cypher, secret passage-ways, good action scenes. Sounds like fun, but it isn't. It's dull. Spectacularly fails to capture the magic of the novels.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/08/bulldog-drummonds-secret-police-1939.html

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Week-End Marriage (AKA Working Wives) a fine 1932 pre-code film combines comedy and romantic melodrama. Loretta Young has to choose between two men. Takes career vs marriage problems for women seriously. A film that enrages some modern viewers.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/07/week-end-marriage-1932.html

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In Road To Paradise (1930) Loretta Young is delightful playing dual roles as a wealthy socialite and an orphan with a paranormal ability. Cheerfully pre-code with an indifference to the law. It's OK for pretty girls to break the law. Good fun.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/07/road-to-paradise-1930.html

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The Truth About Youth (1930), a sex comedy/melodrama with cute as a button Loretta Young as the good girl facing fierce competition for her man from gold digger Myrna Loy (in full-on Sexy Bad Girl mode). Very pre-code and great fun.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-truth-about-youth-1930.html

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One Night at Susie’s is an OK 1930 pre-code crime/romantic melodrama. Very pre-code. The theatre world is depicted in all its sleazy reality. The plot has more holes than a hoodlum who’s just been ventilated by a machine gun.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/06/one-night-at-susies-1930.html

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The Painted Veil, a 1934 Greta Garbo romantic melodrama. Based on a Somerset Maugham story. The introduction of the Production Code earlier in 1934 results in characters whose behaviours make no sense but it looks good and Garbo is terrific.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-painted-veil-1934.html

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The Phantom of the Monastery is a 1934 Mexican gothic horror movie. A group of people who are lost take shelter in an abandoned monastery. Nicely ambiguous, quite different in feel to the Universal horror films of the era, but just as good.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-phantom-of-monastery-1934.html

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The Crowd Roars (1932), a Howard Hawks race-car melodrama. Also deals with the uneasy dynamics that develop when a woman enters this male world. Very Hawksian. Grown-up action movie with some depth. James Cagney and Joan Blondell are terrific.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-crowd-roars-1932.html

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The Story of Temple Drake (1933), one of the most notorious of all Hollywood pre-code movies. Temple Drake likes playing dangerous games with men. Stylistically bizarre southern gothic melodrama, very outrageous and deliberately provocative.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-story-of-temple-drake-1933.html

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