Corruption (1933) PRE-CODE HOLLYWOOD 

It doesn't speak to the current climate. There has always been corruption. In fact, there was much less transparency in government back then than there is now.

This climate never went away

Do you mean Trump?

Hollywood. 1933.

Schhhh ... not so loud!

The threatening "performance" of antisocial people has quite "improved".

@@markusmuller6173 More symbolic/stock elements to film back then.

@@solgato5186 The first derivative of the previous silent film kabuki theater :)

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I agree, I'm glad I didn't read them too because it was a great ending💯

@@thiabrabson2533, Yes it was! I'm gonna Continue to ignore reading the comments on these old classics for now on till afterwards.

​@tz3218 ... Well if that's the case, give me tame any day

Saw Harold Lloyd flip the middle finger in one of his silents.....😮....!!

right. going out of my mind, the ending. gave him the finger he did. god bless our old boys back in the day. totally thrilling, through and through

Amen to this! Truth!! I wish that our politicians and citizens truly loved and had a real relationship with God. This country would be blessed and be a completely different place.

VOTE TRUMP

Better chance with Democrats!

I would argue that government is much less corrupt and society much more just than back in 1933. Not only is government far more transparent due to advances in technology, but women and minorities enjoy far more opportunities now than they had then.

Why do we have to pray to God to do something about it? Is She so stupid She doesn't see what's going on by Herself?

Never more than today, November 11th 2020.

From January, '21, what say you now? yuk yuk

@@nameskhar1510 Never more than today, January 12 2021.

2020 -1: Yes it HAS: IT'S BECOME W O R S E ...

Don't forget "Scram!" 😇

The kick in the arse???

What does pre-code mean?

@@Kate-fi8oh (it means this film was made before this code was put into play in Hollywood) The Motion Picture Production Code was the set of industry moral guidelines for the self-censorship of content that was applied to most United States motion pictures released by major studios from 1934 to 1968. It is also popularly known as the Hays Code, after Will H. Hays, who was the president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) from 1922 to 1945. Under Hays' leadership, the MPPDA, later known as the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), adopted the Production Code in 1930 and began rigidly enforcing it in mid-1934. The Production Code spelled out what was acceptable and what was unacceptable content for motion pictures produced for a public audience in the United States. From 1934 to 1954, the code was closely identified with Joseph Breen, the administrator appointed by Hays to enforce the code in Hollywood. The film industry followed the guidelines set by the code well into the late 1950s, but during this time, the code began to weaken due to the combined impact of television, influence from foreign films, controversial directors (such as Otto Preminger) pushing boundaries, and intervention from the courts, including the Supreme Court.[1][2] In 1968, after several years of minimal enforcement, the Production Code was replaced by the MPAA film rating system. (For further information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Code_Hollywood#:~:text=Pre%2DCode%20Hollywood%20was%20the,%22%2C%20in%20mid%2D1934 )

i must admit that I did NOT expect that gesture. That would not have ever made it in the scene if movie was made much later (Hays Code).

@@Demondragonkinggav Wow that was amazing thank you for your beyond informative post!

Yes, I agree. Boil it down to the important parts, we don't have to see the stenographer, bailiff, lawyers, gallery of people. It's a Railroad

Thanks for watching! May the Sauce be with you.

I love them too!

+Whiskey River (Doc) Its more than 5 seconds, its more like 59 seconds.

59:30 is that American gesture slipped by the morality police. The drunk guy burping is Irish, and cooking the stomach of a man is hideous, except if he's Italian. 🍕 Cheers!

actually it has , the level of insanity and criminality has sunken to the level of the roman empire before its collapse . the graft and corruption of these scum was nowhere near the outright traitorous acts of staged attacks upon america by criminal bush and consortation with foreign powers by trump

Let's not claim only one party is crooked, plenty of crime to go around. Probably gonna get much worse.

Check out: "This Land Is Mine 1943", Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara (etc)

I can't remember even watching this one Did the movie contain any... You know... Boob Shots?

V4ry

He reminds me a lot of Ralph Bellamy.

Nah - you could hear it a bit....'Out-the-window Carlo' 😂

Quite the finger!

I had to watch that few times to be sure! Pre-code indeed😆!

Pre code

"Every nation gets the government it deserves." Joseph de Maistre

Kind of like a cross between Mae West and Shirley Temple!

Uhhhhh ... no!

I bet YOU could well do with some "puritan ethics"!

All coined gold must be turned in to the federal government for safekeeping. Fannie and Freddie get married to uncle Sam!

Who do you think invented it?

I know! A one finger salute and with gusto!!!

But your time is mistaken, 59:28

I also saw that! Hahahaha! I played it back, just to make sure.

I haven't looked it up yet, but I love word/phrase origins and am not familiar with giving the black bird -- though isn't it cooked in a pie (sorry, plural, aren't they cooked in a pie) and other bird references? Do tell...

Me too....

@@trapper1064 I think that "black bird pie" is part of a nursery rhyme and was used in one of Agatha Christie's books "Pocket Full of Rye". I think it is also actually a pie.

Completely agree with you

Hopefully you saw her in "Strange Marriage" --- she is charming in that one also & it's entertaining

Quick witted Excellent delivery of her lines!