Grief Street (1931) PRE-CODE HOLLYWOOD 

Love these old movies. They wore the prettiest clothes back then. Great style in clothing and furniture too.

before fake news, reporters were better detectives than detectives

What a splendid old programmer! Filmed at Universal Studios. I'm surprised more people haven't picked up on the Walter Brennan's role here....Thanks so much.

That's entertainment. Dialogue was snappy and short but to the point. Always a pleasure to watch these actresses stroll around in evening gowns "a la natural." Happens every movie.

Great old classic ! A true GEM!

This was a change, seeing the heartbreakingly beautiful 'Dorothy Christy' as a brunette rather than as a natural blonde. She's stunning in any hair color.

"How do you know he's strangled?" "Well, there's a cord tied around his neck and he's dead." Best exchange of dialogue ever.

I love the gowns these ladies wear.

Darling little Barbara Kent lived to be 103!!!!!

Beautiful 😇 ride back in time 😭 wish I could time travel there 😇

"You're as nutty as you think I am!" Love it!!!

Wonderful. Loved it. Thank you very much.

Wonderful movies thank you for up loading great movies

"You haven't even tried to make love to me.""We can remedy that." Barbara Kent is a pure delight Thanks Pizzaflix

LoL Jardeen losing his temper and falling into dice gambling was unexpected 😁😁😁

VERY GOOD. QUITE A PLOT TWIST I NEVER SAW COMING. They just don’t make them anymore.

These are treasures of people of then captured in time! If one wishes to extract the most richness of them you would need to research and try to gather everything of everyone involved making them possible and more. Where they were done even if you could gather what the weather was like during the time they were pieced together. Every and all consideration of every thing seen and heard. It was minded by people who could do either of three things. Themselves they could refer back in time be in the moment or imagine and act out what they might have believed the future would bring which is no different of people even today. Mannerisms are so fascinating and interesting! Having knowledge of that time of world history of then by all populations and their nations along with customs of then. England was still recognized as the largest global power but at that time was becoming challenged greatly. These films give us a chance to feel perhaps their time. Books will always do as well and hold their own for they reach further back in time and if both well written also well read they have proven to help create later movies instead. Sometimes better sometimes not. From it all some things never change yet still so different time makes.

44:45 "this isn't the place for a love scene, is it?" intelligent little touch, very clever :) thanks for posting, most enjoyable movie.

Great! I actually guessed right about who the murderer was. I actually got it right for a change.

3rd viewing (I love these old films- can ya tell?) ~ stage doorman- "You come ahead~ I'm not so old but you'll KNOW you been somewhere!" Feisty dude, he!

love all the comedy they are great team....beauty love and glamour

Not bad, I enjoyed it. Tiny Barbara Kent lived a long life. Died age 103

+PizzaFlix - thank you again for these wonderful uploads. I really enjoyed this movie. It seems weird to me that a lot of these crime flix inject comedy - especially within the police department. Is this what differients (spelling?) them from film noir? In any case, I thank you sincerely for your passion and sharing of these films.

Proabition in the early 1930s, looks like "leave it to Sargent Jarden" is loaded every time he starts talking. Lot of actors back then and now had a drinking problem, all in all, a good mystery movie, and love seeing the great old cars in these old movies too.

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@9:26, an early Walter Brennan role! (Still had teeth then)

It's cute. Nice precode with all elements of the era, pice, detectives, journalists and beautiful gowns wearing women.

Wow, that's some serious emoting going on there!! :)

Oh, give me a woman’s 1930’s wardrobe!

Walter Brennan appears after 9 minutes.

I loved the Jardine character. But the leading lady, while she was indeed very lovely, her acting and constant hand wringing became very annoying. My type of movie. Thanks for the upload.

A good movie

The actress gets top honors of acting the poorest death. I have ever seen on screen.

the sergeant was quite a piece of work. i swear he seemed that he was in the cups' ! probably didn't go on to bigger and better roles! 'I represent the police!

Yes, because we all expect quality from the writer of "Reefer Madness". (That being Arthur Hoerl)

Old guy was best actor.

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Just love these pre war movies . Sergeant "Thick -as-pig-shit: Jardine.

Excellent entertainment.

water brennen wow

A cop with Napoleon Complex trying to play Cagney+ a pixie actress (4'11") who apparently hated acting who was forced into it at an early age by her parents.

I like reading movies guessing whats next I got this one 😉

What is Sgt Jardine saying at the final scene? It seems to skip, it's incoherent to me.

Love her dress

lmfao 🤣🤣🤣 the dying scene 🙄

"Hey you guys....stop eating all my food....I'm not feeding the starving Armenians this week!" Indeed...you don't say.

This is what you call REAL acting! Yeah,right.

Paul Hurst is always fun to find in these old films... plays the comically snide very dumb cop.

I didn't know Al Jardine's grandfather was a police sergeant! PS, Walter Brennan's stuttering act is starting to grate on me.

Grief street ,aptly named for the acting ability from the majority of the cast in this early , talkie ! One can only imagine the changes going through the movie industry at this time. Great actors being canned due to unfavorable sounding voices. Having to memorize entire scrips and one of the obvious aspects of these early talkies , no background musical score. The wierd silence between the dialogue , especially at the opening and closing of scenes. The actors look lost at times.....for the average directors this must have been a trying experience.

Thank goodness we have moved on from making fun of people with speech impediments.

Also has a very young Walter Brennan from The Real McCoys.

For some reason most of Thorp's films have survived while thousands of others are gone. Not a bad director but only a little above average.

Could have done without the tough guy and the stutterer. Made my anxiety go through the r-r-r-r-r-oof!!!!!

HEY, EVERYBODY ! LEAVE IT TO JARDINE ! It's a movie, it's make believe....relax. Or just don't watch it. Hahaha!

Detectives allowed press guys to hang around homicide scenes...wow, times have changed

Good movie

Isn't the male lover the guy who plays the brother of Miss Crabtree on the Little Rascals which started Jackie Cooper who taught the guy was gonna marry Miss Crabtree.

"Who me, captain?"

of the many people you see everyday, half of them are nuts.

Jardine, don't ya just live the guy? 'Don't you go anywhere - where do you think I'd go? Jersey maybe" - Jardine made the movie!

John should have thought about the carpet, it may haven given him enough time for his head to cool.

I enjoyed trying to figure out who did it. Didn't recognize Walter Brennan.

Love art decco

Unless I am mistaken, the police Sergeant detective was drunk for his entire performance.

Arrange immediately else face your grief street

Can’t they do a scene without lighting up or offering a cigarette, whether it was habit or promotion,, who knows.

Barbara Kent is super cute.

What does pre-code hollywood mean?

“Are you trying to make a monkey of the law?” They say the darnest things! In fact, let’s face it, the whole script & dialog is a little less than horrible ~

jardine is a hot mess

I thought most of the acting was so bad I couldn't take it anymore, then the wife hit a low point for any movie. "What an actress!" Not. The worst actress I've ever seen. I'm out of here.

Why re enact the theatre scene at the end?What's the decanter to do with it?How was he strangled in a locked room?I need to lie down.

Actress playing Jean Royce is very petite or the male actors are giants.

7:49, 12:25, 20:14, 23:55, 25:38, 28:09, 31:10, 37:01, 41:07, 50:18, 53:14, 58:55, 1:02:54

Whats the point of walter b. Stuttering to through off people or to add color. That one cop that yells is nutty. A who did it an how... Your as nutty as you think i am . best line . was he strangled from above. How an who why.

Jardine ruins this film. Is this a mystery or a comedy? Geez.

Even with Walter Brennan as the stuttering drunken reporter, i still can’t see any reason to showcase a stuttering drunken reporter.

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1. Stuttering Guy was annoying and unnecessary. 2. Why didn't they bring the girl to a hospital?

Tired plot. Brennan, 37, a renowned character actor on his 30th film probably created the stutter as he often chose to limp. Still steals the scenes. All efforts at comic relief in this movie were lost on me. Attempt at art deco decor.

The acting in this is so laughable and bad.

The sargent is hilarious. The rest of the movie is rather crappy.

Geez....i've seen some bad movies in my life but this is just downright shite! Acting could be alot better, but the script is god awful!!

the scene @ 7:11 is just ridiculous. absurd as the day is long. dude did not need to call over the old man. everyone always getting so close to speak to each other is so goofy. tighter frame because HONK HONK