M. Hewitt's post made me start thinking about the thirtys. What a time to tell stories in. Remember all the gangster flicks set in those days? \ Dillinger, Boxcar Bertha, St Valentines day massacre, The Untouchables, Millar's crossing...\ What flicks do you respect most in that line of history? And i include the old stuff made during the thirtys. Jimmy Cagny was one tough short guy ! Eddie G. Robinson, Bogie......hey, just cause its old, don't mean its bad! So, load up the 50 round drums mags on the thompson M1928, stuff yer pockets with flasks of Bathtub Gin, and let fly at the compitition.
I have infinite respect for the exploitation filmmakers of the 30s, for the sheer ingenuity they used to outfox the censors. They'd make an outrageous film full of sex, drugs, violence, and deviance of all sorts, and get away with it by tacking on a prolog given by a "doctor" telling the kiddies never, ever to do any of this; It's EDUCATIONAL! If the censors saw through it, they'd stall them with a barrage of paperwork long enough for them to move on to the next town. I especially love Dwain Esper's Maniac; It's got nudity, a guy eating a cat's eye, a rapist who thinks he's an orangutan, visions of hell, a catfight with syringes, and absolutely insane rants, and he passed it off as education by splicing in random definitions of mental illnesses between reels!
That is one WEIRD googelaplex of a movie. It cries out to be Mistied.