Mick LaSalle
Critic and author Mick LaSalle (Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood) discusses The Story of Temple Drake and some of its key themes and qualities that made it controversial.
Tells the history and importance of The National Film Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflects the diversity of film, and indeed the American experience itself.
A look at actresses who starred in films with thought-provoking subjects made between 1930 and July 1934, before the Hollywood Production Code —the infamous Hays Code— was enforced.
