My daughter and I were watching the Busby Berkley DVD collection version of this the other night. During the scene where all you see are the hoop skirts and then the chorus girls start pulling them off the rack, a distinct expletive rang out. We turned to each other and asked 'did we just hear what we thought we heard?'. Sure enough, we backed up a bit and there it was, clear as could be. It gave us a laugh. And we both enjoyed the movie!
shareI have the movie and I noticed that too! It was too funny to hear a curse word in a film back in the 1930's.
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shareThere are quite a few other, not so overt, "pre-Code" references. Such as for example, the double entendre that Joan Blondell says to Warren William when they are dancing very close: "You have your good points!"
shareI finished watching it last night and did indeed hear the "sh*t" After backing it up a few times I actually saw which actress uttered the phrase, which in its entirety was "Sh*t, where are my shoes!" How fun!
Regarding the pre-Code stuff, one that I noted was in the first musical number, Pettin in the Park, where the women are changing behind the screen on stage. You can actually see the silouette of several naked breasts. *gasp!*
Whadda ya hear, whadda ya say!
I'm guessing this movie would get a PG-13 if it were given another theatrical run, due to that word (as well as the constant use of the term "gold digger" to refer to women).
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I'm guessing this movie would get a PG-13 if it were given another theatrical run, due to that word (as well as the constant use of the term "gold digger" to refer to women).
There was another clever bit they got away with. There's a scene where some of the chorus girls are walking from backstage to take their places onstage. A stagehand is walking behind one of them and reaches out and grabs a handful of her butt, then gives it a couple of pats. She didn't react at all, the clear implication being that that sort of thing happens so often that chorus girls don't even notice it anymore. Clever.
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she says "shoot, I can't find my shoes"
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Pretty sure WC Fields tells some one to "go to hell" in one of his early thirties shorts......I believe the one where he's showing the "broad" his golf game....
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I'm willing to bet a paycheck that the "S word" is really pronounced in DOORWAY TO HELL (1930). Gangster Lew Ayres and his fiancee are in the backseat of a limo that is parked in the middle of the street while he talks about the tenement he grew up in. The car is blocking traffic, and two cops come up to get the limo to move along. As Ayres makes excuses, one of the cops definitely says "Don't S*%##* me." Also, in the film BLESSED EVENT (1932), the woman playing Lee Tracy's mother mutters "I'll be d---d" as a scene fades out.
shareI know this example is different because it's British and its 1949, but in Kind Hearts and Coronets, the "eenie meenie meinie moe" poem is uttered in its original version, the second line being "catch a ni**er by its toe."
I just watched it and was shocked. That's one you don't normally hear used so casually, if ever, anymore.
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Hell's Angels is the pre code movie that I recall having a ton of cussing in it, mainly during the aerial scenes where these guys are freaking out. It's quite realistic really.
share"Hell's Angels" is loaded with swear words during the dogfight scenes. Super-duper great, and realistic, film, too!
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It was also used to denote people from India. It's only in the US that it was exclusively used to mean people of African descent.
In fact, the famous little counting ditty "one little, two little, three little Indians" was originally the N-word. A professor of mine told about being in the UK sometime in the 80s and being part of a tour group for something and hearing the tour guide explain that they had to go into wherever in groups of ten, and said in a jocular manner, well, who will be the first ten little n-------s? She and her husband were appalled, but no one else in the tour, who were mostly British, batted an eye.
I watched it with my roommate and we both (right or wrong) heard *beep*
I think it just slipped on in!
Besides HELL'S ANGELS, there was dogfight profanity in the silent epic WINGS. You don't have to be a lip-reader to make out Buddy Rogers yelling "son of a bitch!" when he has a German plane on his tail.
Speaking of "Pettin' in the Park", what did petting mean in 1933 and did it have the "heavy petting" connotations it was to have afterwards?
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"Petting," "necking" all pretty much mean making out, I assume.
shareIn a dogfight scene in Howard Hughes' silent WINGS, you can easily read Richard Barthelmess' lips: "Son of a b--ch!!" when an enemy gets on his tail.
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This (?by now) infamous line was not included on the TV broadcast versions, so that tells you something. Most people catch it while watching the DVD. No doubt it wasn't in the script. Less likely, though, is the same profanity used in the East Side Kids movie, Ghosts on the Loose(1943). Granted, Bela's sneeze was kind of strange sounding.
shareHere I am 13 years later answering this; (busy doing the dishes) just started watching this but I can't hear.
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