Tag: hollywood

  • The 10 best gangster films

    Crime doesn’t pay? Try telling that to filmmakers. The gangster movie is among cinema’s most enduring genres, offering audiences the vicarious thrill of being bad. Its golden age came in the 1930s, when hard-edged, Pre-Code pictures such as Little Caesar, The Public Enemy, and Scarface: The Shame of a Nation introduced a rogue’s gallery of…

  • The 20 best Pre-Code films

    Handwringing over Hollywood is as old as Hollywood itself. In 1930, the movie studios acquiesced to religious and civic organizations and promised to clean up their act. The Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), under the stewardship of former U.S. Postmaster General Will H. Hays, established the Motion Picture Production Code to set…