Shanghai Express (1932)
A film like this that deals openly with the subject of prostitution and pokes fun at conventional morality would be impossible to make in Hollywood after the Hays Code began to be rigidly enforced in 1934.
Category: Romance
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
Film Review by Dan Willard. Four years before he made Lost Horizon Frank Capra questioned the perceived superiority of the Western way of life in The Bitter Tea of General Yen.
I Sent a Letter to My Love (1980)
French comedy/drama about a crippled man who unwittingly corresponds with his spinster sister who has become his caretaker.
Gypsy Anne (1920)
Film review by Dan Willard. Considered the first truly Norwegian film, Gipsy Anne is the story of an orphan girl who grows up on a farm and is courted by her stepbrother and the farmhand who discovered her when she was an infant.
