1934 - Crime Dentist | One Week, One Year, a Film History Podcast

The last year of the Pre-Code era! This episode we talk about the Three Stooges, a steamy wig movie, a proto-French New Wave drama, the quintessential romantic comedy, a proto-Shane Black Christmas detective movie, and Peter Lorre's English language debut!
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00:00 - Intro
04:13 - The News of the Year
06:44 - Woman Haters
07:38 - The Scarlet Empress
36:50 - L'Atalante
46:08 - It Happened One Night
01:02:17 - The Thin Man
01:21:27 - The Man Who Knew Too Much
01:40:27 - Favorites and Outro
See you next year!

[@rtblues]

Shout out to Myrna Loy & William Powell! In plenty of earlier pre code films, it's 1 bed to a couple. The Thin Man must have been made after July, 1934, when the Code started getting enforced.

[@samsheppard8265]

Recommendations for 1935: the lost city, the phantom empire, loss of sensation, bride of Frankenstein, air hawks, the tunnel aka transatlantic tunnel, the black room, bride of Frankenstein, condemned to live, the crime of dr. Crespi, mad love, mark of the vampire, Ouanga, the raven, the student of Prague and werewolf of London

[@samsheppard8265]

Recommendations for 1936: the invisible ray, Kosmicheskiy reys, things to come, the walking dead, Flash Gordon, undersea kingdom, ghost patrol, the man who changed his mind, the devil-doll, Dracula’s daughter, Fährmann Maria, the golem, the invisible ray, el baúl macabro, the man who changed his mind, revolt of the zombies, Sweeney Todd: The demon barber of Fleet Street & the walking dead

[@davejenkins1431]

Merry Christmas guys 🍰🎄