Pre-code Hollywood brings feisty women and virile men, who save themselves for marriage (just).

Time: smoking, transitory lives of the depression, inequality writ large, ‘playful’ slaps.

Place:  American dream of self-reliance and long road trips.

Delightful and jarring – a little cosy masterpiece.

It Happened One Night (1934)

A 50 word review of the blue-print of romantic comedies from the "Pre-Code" era

Pre-code Hollywood brings feisty women and virile men, who save themselves for marriage (just).

It is of its time and place.



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