#dillon everett

[bagheerita]

When they were casting for Col. Everett I feel like the character concept was: You know how much Teyla wants to punch Bates? You have 2 minutes to create a character that Elizabeth wants to punch just as hard, and then he's gonna go down the line and pick a fight with everyone for literally no reason.

[emcgoverns]

elizabeth mcgovern as janice dillon in “broken trust,” promotional still (1995) | 📸: everett collection

[dr-futbol-blog]

The Siege II, Pt. 2

So, United States Marine Corps Colonel Dillon Everett saunters into Atlantis through the stargate and immediately does what Sheppard should have done weeks ago but could not bring himself to do: he relieves Weir of her command.

Everett: Doctor Weir. Weir: Yes. Everett: Colonel Dillon Everett, United States Marine Corps. Weir: You should know-- Everett: General O'Neill sends his compliments on a job well done under extraordinary circumstances. You are relieved.

This transition is swift and jarring for all of them and Sheppard, the Air Force Major that only a moment ago was the highest military authority on the base, tries to find his footing in this new hierarchy:

Sheppard: Sir, we're about to evacuate. Everett: Without a fight! Sheppard: Yes, sir!

He refers to the Colonel as 'sir' but does not salute him even though the Colonel himself salutes Weir as he relieves her, and we just saw Ford salute him as the proper greeting. McKay glances at Sheppard, noticing the trouble Sheppard seems to have in getting that 'sir' out of his mouth, clearly understanding the situation for what it is and what it means for the two of them.

It's clear even from this brief interaction that this man is by-the-book, a hard-ass career military man. While it is difficult to know how different his personality is from that of the late Colonel Sumner at the end of the day, Everett has come to Atlantis to wage war in defense of the Earth and he uses all of his authority, both man-made and natural born, to take command of the situation.

Sheppard, however, has trouble submitting under anyone's authority on the best of days, and immediately begins questioning the Colonel's command. It is interesting and significant that he takes a look at McKay before he opens his mouth, seeming to check in with him before he does anything, and he tries his best to be respectful even though he is arguing with a superior officer:

Everett: That evacuation order is rescinded. I assume you've armed the self destruct device. Sheppard: Yes sir, we have, but Doctor Weir was trying to tell you-- Everett: I am gonna need you to disarm it immediately. Weir: Hold on a second, Colonel--I don't think you fully grasp our situation here. Everett: You have three Wraith hive ships bearing down on your position and precious little to defend yourselves with.

Sheppard and McKay keep exchanging looks, trying to be furtive about it.

But the Colonel is not entirely innocent as to how he is received by them, coming in with a bit of an attitude:

Everett: That about sum it up? McKay: You got our message! Everett: We got your message.

As soon as McKay realizes what's going on, that their attempt to contact SGC using his algorithm had succeeded, we see him happier than he has looked in weeks--since before they lost the Daganian ZPM only to come back to the learn about the approaching hives. Yes, he had just failed spectacularly with the satellite, but he wasn't a complete fuck-up after all. He had managed to do something right. This Colonel, these strapping young marines that seem be staring right at him, they were here because of him. Even though he doesn't entirely understand what is going on yet, it does take a huge load off his shoulders.

He glances at Sheppard but then quickly looks away because as relieved as he is, he also understand what this means for the two of them. They have to be extra cautious. They are both clearly trying to find their footing in this situation and not quite succeeding in acting normal around each other. They keep sneaking glances because there is a whole level to their communication that happens only through looks, only through reading the other man's face.

As bad as she had made him feel about all of this earlier, Weir also manages to further lift McKay's spirits in how she describes their current situation to the Colonel:

Weir: It's down to two hive ships. We managed to destroy one of them. Everett: Good for you! That should make my job a little easier. Sheppard: What exactly is your job, sir? Everett: I should think that would be obvious to you by now, Major. We are going to defend Atlantis at all costs.

With this, the Colonel seems to somewhat win Sheppard over. He is certainly willing to fight for Atlantis, the city has become very important to him. It is his home. They should not give it up without putting up a fight. But he is unsure about the last part, to do it at all costs. If he has learned anything about himself in the past 15 hours, it's that there is something he cannot afford to lose. There is a price that he is unwilling to pay. There is something that he is going to fight to defend even harder than he will fight to defend Atlantis. He is not losing McKay again. This is why he questions his superior officer yet again:

Sheppard: Colonel, it's not that we don't appreciate the thought, but if you had read the report on the armada heading this way, you'd know that there's not much we can do about it. Everett: Oh, I've read your report cover to cover, Major.

Sheppard steps forward to stand parallel to Weir and his eyes keep going to his back right. He keeps taking quick glances at McKay like he wants to see McKay's face confirm that he's doing the right thing, he's saying the right things. That, and however necessary it would be to not keep taking glances at McKay right now, he can't help himself. He thought he'd lost him, and now he was here. Close to him, but out of reach. He may not be able to touch McKay to confirm that he's real and really there but he is damn well entitled to look, especially after everything.

What Col. Everett seems to reference here is what Sheppard was forced to do to Col. Sumner, his dear friend, which they will discuss later but which Sheppard has no way of knowing yet. He must interpret the Colonel's response in some other context, probably quickly going through the mission reports they had sent through in his head. They were being careful. There can't have been anything in the reports that would give them away, right? McKay had even sent that video to SGC, pretending to be straight as a razor. There is no way the Colonel could be suspicious of him already. He can't have been referring to that. Sheppard almost turns to look at McKay, his face is already moving to turn, but he keeps himself still.

McKay's mind seems to have been working on something else and he has quickly figured out how it is that they got here.

Sheppard does look at McKay when he's talking directly to him because it has to be safe to look when someone is talking to you. Also, McKay sounds so happy, his eyes lighting up as he mentions the ZPM. How could he not look at that man? But as soon as the Colonel starts talking, he snaps his eyes back to him as quickly as he can. Keep your attention on the person speaking.

McKay: They must have found a ZPM, that's the only way they could have dialled in from Earth! Everett: It was discovered in Egypt by a group of archaeologists. Damned thing's been under our noses the whole time! McKay: Fantastic! Wait a minute -- how could you possibly bring the ZPM back here? You'd need it to maintain the wormhole. Everett: As we speak, it is being transported up to the Daedalus, our new battle cruiser. McKay: Sister ship of the Prometheus -- I didn't even know it was finished. Everett: With the ZPM boosting her engines, she should be here inside of four days. That is how long we have to hold this base.

McKay does not know the role he himself played in the discovery of this ZPM through a timeline where he had never come to Atlantis, had never met Sheppard who was flying choppers in the most remote part of his world, had never gone to Siberia or the Antarctic, where they had only begun puzzling out the vastness of the universe, and where, if he had allowed himself to think about it at all ever, second only to the vastness of the universe was the depth of his loneliness. In this timeline he is not lonely, not any more. That one difference has changed him in more ways than he can ever know. He hasn't been this hopeful in weeks.

Hearing about all of this makes him ecstatic, and he cannot help but steal glances of Sheppard as he engages the Colonel. And as careful as he is being, Sheppard cannot help stealing glances at McKay himself, especially now that his demeanor is so suddenly and so entirely changed. McKay sounds so happy that he actually has to look away not to give away the game, turning back only when the Colonel addresses him directly. The happier McKay sounds, the harder Sheppard tries to ignore his presence. The more difficult he seems to find it.

Colonel Everett doesn't seem to have any more patience for the Sheppard and McKay show than anyone else that is around them for any amount of time, and he splits them up by giving Sheppard a task:

Everett: Major Sheppard, dial Pegasus Alpha site, recall all military personnel. As well, any civilians who'd like to return and help take part in damage control are welcome to do so! And when you're done with that, please join me in my offices in the Conference Room. We'll discuss our tactical position.

Sheppard does not look back as he takes off, trying not to be any more obvious about it than they already are. McKay watches Sheppard leave, looking like a lost puppy without him. He's not ready to be without Sheppard near him and he's unhappy about this state of affairs.

Sheppard seems to do as he's told, although we soon learn that Weir had rescinded Col. Everett's order, which puts Sheppard in a difficult position. It is difficult to serve two masters, and he can only now appreciate the situation he previously had put Sgt. Bates himself. But his position is made even more precarious by the fact that between the previous episode and this, Weir seems to have learned the truth of what she may have suspected about Sheppard and McKay for a long time because she has a pair of eyes on her head. In his grief, Sheppard had been unable to conceal it. He had no choice but to trust her with it.

And now it meant both that he had to side with Weir while she and the Colonel figured out the new balance of power, and that he had to trust Weir to protect him, to protect them, from the Colonel just like he had hoped Weir would be able to use her civilian authority to shield him from Colonel Sumner in the very beginning. The fate and future of the most important thing in his life was in her hands, where the fate and future of Atlantis now seemed to be in the hands of the Colonel.

In the blink of an eye, their whole world had been turned upside down and he was still looking for the horizon to get his bearings. But at least he knew where his true north was, again. For the moment he thought McKay was gone, he had truly been lost.

Continued in Pt. 3

[coffee-n-bagels-comic-universe]

Self-Indulgent Series December: Granite Hills

It's December, and that means I get to be self-indulgent and give myself gifts, mainly the gift of looking at actors I like.

I give you my series of self-indulgence, Granite Hills (1990):

~~💀💀~~

Set in 1980 in the fictional town of Mudslide, Wisconsin, mainly at the Granite Hills university. This cast will be a mix of actors who would and wouldn't be available at the time.

The Show's Cast Includes:

Alfred Molina as Angel Ramon Vega [Age: 24]

Anjelica Huston as Sandy Cherry Lawson [Age: 26]

Billy Connolly as Professor Darwin Derryl Rigby [Age: 40]

Billy Crystal as Jethro Mephisto Butcher [Age: 25]

Brendan Fraser as Dallas Nathaniel Gray [Age: 23]

Carrie Fisher as Veronica Beverly Chambers [Age: 21]

Cary Elwes as Easton Markos White [Age: 27]

Chris Barrie as Douglass Wilfred Bernard [Age: 20]

Christina Applegate as Storm Hekla Jóhannsson [Age: 18]

Christopher Walken as Professor Karl Cai Lowell [Age: 40]

Craig Charles as Chuck Vance Sheppard [Age: 21]

Dan Aykroyd as Cesar Clay Leon [Age: 23]

Danny John-Jules as Quentin Kingston Hollister [Age: 21]

Daryl Hannah as Bernadette Daphne Jordan [Age: 24]

Diane Lane as Saffron Elouise Mason [Age: 19]

Fran Drescher as Monique Joanne Curtis [Age: 22]

Geena Davis as Erin Kermit Cantrell [Age: 28]

Gunnar Hansen as Thor Hjörtur Jóhannsson [Age: 48]

Harold Ramis as Edmund Morgan Blackburn [Age: 29]

Jack Black as Odin Hrafn Jóhannsson [Age: 21]

Jeff Bridges as Professor Kennedy Troy Gill [Age: 40]

Joe Pesci as Professor Jeremiah Emmit Jekyll [Age: 40]

John Belushi as Julian Noel Hood [Age: 25]

John Candy as Dale Randall Newman [Age: 26]

John Cusack as Andrew Simon Garfield [Age: 23]

John Goodman as Cyrus Lars Nielsen [Age: 27]

John Leguizamo as Alijah Mrlon Cross [Age: 29}

Judd Nelson as Colton Kenelm Coy [Age: 19]

Katey Sagal as Ramona Adrienne Dunn [Age: 25]

Kevin Bacon as Brad Nathan Hardy [Age: 25]

Kiefer Sutherland as Trenton Homer Abbey [Age: 21]

Luis Guzmán as Jaxxon Garrett Flores [Age: 29]

Mandy Patinkin as Elishua Saul Zebedaios [Age: 28]

Matt Dillon as Dennis Waylon Marley [Age: 20]

Matthew Lillard as Alexander Buddy Jones [Age: 19]

Oliver Platt as Ruben Manuel Valdez [Age: 22]

O'Shea Jackson (Sr.) as Tyrese Jordan Maxwell [Age: 18]

Philip Seymour Hoffman as Parris Hayes Grant [Age: 19]

Raul Julia as Professor Marcel Gomez Agua [Age: 40]

Ray Winstone as Holden Montgomery Lynn [Age: 27]

River Phoenix as Kent Horace Woodward [Age: 18]

Robin Williams as Jaycee Aramis Ellis [Age: 26]

Sean Young as Maxine Jade Upton [Age: 26]

Stanley Tucci as Luke Robin Flynn [Age: 22]

Steve Buscemi as Hugh Chester Sweeney [Age: 25]

Tom Hanks as Mark Everett Shaw [Age: 20]

Tony Shalhoub as Orlando Jaime Guerrero [Age: 25]

Val Kilmer as Earl Blue Dior [Age: 29]

Wayne Knight as Osborne Finnegan Jarvis [Age: 28]

William Baldwin as Theodore Joshua Ball [Age: 20]

Willem Dafoe as Terry Roosevelt Jepson [Age: 27]

[nysocboy]

Underground Railroad: a gay slave rides a real railroad in the surrealist South

The Underground Railroad was a network of safe houses and allies that helped enslaved African-Americans escape to the North, or after the Fugitive Slave Act, to Canada.  

The 2023 tv miniseries suggests that it was a real railroad, a series of trains and tunnels run by an intricate bureaucracy. As Cora and her friends and love interests head north, pursued by slave-catcher Arnold Ridgeway, they encounter bizarre communities and have adventures that comment on the racism in the pre-Civil War South and the contemporary U.S. I reviewed Chapter 1, "Georgia."

Scene 1: Surreal montage of people running backwards, falling into a chasm, being all bloody, and finally Cora telling us: "The first and last thing my mama gave me was apologies."  Cut to Caesar (Aaron Pierre, left) asking Cora to head north with him, for "good luck."  She refuses.  The way they keep pushing their heads at each other, they appear to be a romantic couple. 

Scene 2: Whooping and dancing in the slave compound.  Cora brings the older Jockey some food.  Their owners appear: Terrence (Benjamin Walker, left), who runs the other half of the plantation, disapproves of the "lenient" way that James treats his slaves. So they ask a kid to recite the Declaration of Independence.   They mean the Declaration of Secession, so the Civil War is on.  How is anyone heading North?   He can't do it right, and he accidentally touches them, so Terrence has him beaten to death. And Cora, for intervening. They are left chained to the whipping post all night.

Scene 3: In the morning, the ladies tend to Cora's wounds, and Caesar takes her home. Later, his wife Frances says "I know about men like you. You sneak off in the night and roll around in the swamp with other mens on your back."  Ok, so Caesar is gay.  She's fine with it, but master brought them together to reproduce, and if they don't, Master Randall will cut off his dick, so get with your husbandly duties!  

Scene 4: Prideful (Lucius Baston), the black overseer, tells Cora that she's being moved.  She resists (I can't imagine why -- her new owner can't be much worse). 

Cut to James walking through the woods.  He's nice to a little boy named Hezekiah  then coughs and collapses. 

Cut to Terrence in the fields, telling the slaves that his brother James has died, so now he owns the whole plantation, and will stop being "lenient": no more parties, no more outside work, and he'll be overseeing the "breeding,"  Perv just wants to watch couples doing it.  He also wants to have sex with Cora.

Scene 5: Slave catcher Ridgeway (Joel Edgerton, left and below and his assistant, a young black kid named Homer (Chase W. Dillon), have a very muscular escaped slave, Big Anthony (Elijah Everett), in a cage. They return him to Terrence's plantation. 

Ridgeway advises Terrence to place some moles in the fields to rat out talk of escape.  An underground railroad has appeared to abet runaways. Terrence doesn't believe it, but Ridgeway asks him why some escaped slaves disappear forever, as if they've gone to a new world. An alternative reality with no slave trade?

The full review, with nude frontal and rear photos, is on Righteous Gemstones Beefcake and Boyfriends

[meeyauw]

Write a Song About Heartache from Jonny Look on Vimeo.

A musician finds a painful shortcut to writing new hits.

Produced by Brain Dead Studios Cult Status

CAST Mac Demarco as…Archie Whitmer Thomas as…Todd Steve Hernandez as…Pat Kaitlin Yaffe as…Sound Engineer Elisha Yaffe as…Sweaty Assistant

Written and Directed by Jonny Look

Produced by Elisha Yaffe

Executive Producers Steve Smith Meg Murnane Kyle Ng Gavin Dogan

Director of Photography Chris Westlund

Production Designer Carson Giles

Archie Design: Alex McMillan

Archie Fabrication: Alex McMillan Tom Burns Steve Smith

Editor Scott Hanson

Original songs and music composed by Nick Cross

Costume Designer Diana Dillon

VFX Simon Mowbray

Sound Mix & Design Chase Everett

Color Correction Daniel Stonehouse @Crayon

Graphics by Jason Look @Looksdiscount

Additional Puppeteering Lauren Malizia Adam Willis

1st Assistant Director James Beard

Art Director Jillian Oliver

Additional Design Olga Nesvetaylov

1st A/C Andrew Plaza

Chief Lighting Technician Jeff Caroli

Key Grip Adam Presley

Sound Morgan Chan

Make Up Teal Druda

Set Dresser Max Look

PA Cade Howell

Special Thanks

Friends & Family Sam Cannon + Sam Cannon studios Freestyle Filmworks Lauren Malizia Adam Willis Patrick Muhlburger Nick Rooney Najeeb Marc Tarazi Michael Langan Julian Muller Gage Lindsten

[clarklovescarole]

January 1939: Mrs. Gable Goes To Nevada

Report Gable Divorce Suit Near; Actor Expected to Wed Lombard

January 19, 1939 (United Press)

Friends said today that Mrs. Rhea Gable, estranged wife of Clark Gable, the actor, would establish residence in Nevada next week to sue for divorce.

She was expected to reside at Reno, the Nevada divorce capital, or at Las Vegas. Under Nevada divorce laws, Mrs. Gable could have her final decree six weeks later. There would not be the one-year wait for a final decree that is necessitated by California laws.

Mrs. Gable was not available for comment and neither was her husband, who name has been romantically connected with Carole Lombard, the actress. A month ago, Gable said he intended to ask for a divorce. A property settlement had delayed matters, but was settled shortly before the year-end. 

It was taken for granted in the film colony that Mrs. Gable would sue on grounds such as incompatibility. Whatever her complaint, it will be privately heard by a judge, the usual Nevada procedure. 

“Years Older Than Gable” 

Gable and Miss Lombard have never discussed the possibility of their marrying, but friends assumed they would wed immediately after the actor is free. 

Mrs. Gable is 11 years older than he. She was 41 and Gable 30 when they married at Santa Ana, Cal., in 1931. She was a well-to-do Texas widow. 

Their estrangement appeared to be marked by no outstanding incidents, but a mere difference in interests and temperament break was announced in November 1935, when Gable left for a foreign cruise, telephoning from New York en route, the statement:

“Mrs. Gable and I have separated and a property settlement has been reached. Any statement on a divorce must come from Mrs. Gable.”

Since then, while they have remained married but living apart, it was reported that Mrs. Gable was willing to give her husband a divorce, but insisted that he should request it. 

Way Cleared For Divorce

The way for a divorce was cleared last month when it was announced that they had reached a property settlement under which Gable had paid her $286,000.

Gable’s friendship with Miss Lombard, movie comedienne, developed some months after his separation from Mrs. Gable, friends said. It was reported to have begun at a film colony night club party during the winter of 1935. Gable has squired Miss Lombard constantly, and she accompanied the actor on his hunting and fishing parties. 

Gable has been married twice. His first wife was Miss Josephine Dillon Gable, a voice teacher who took the Cadiz, O., youth off a job as a telephone troubleshooter and made an actor of him. 

Miss Lombard is 29, and previously was married to Actor William Powell.

Wife Bound for Reno and Gable for Carole

January 20, 1939 (New York Daily News)

Mrs. Clark Gable, winner in her stubborn battle for a hefty financial settlement, let for Reno, Nev., today to establish residence for a divorce from Hollywood’s All-American heart throb.

Unless unforeseen complications arise, she will receive her decree in six weeks – and Gable will be free at any time thereafter to marry Carole Lombard, $485,000-a-year screen comedienne and his partner in the film colony’s most famous “Unwed Husband and Wife” romance.

Rushing Plans

And there were indications aplenty today that Clark and Carole are rushing their plans to bid a fond farewell to glamour while settling down to a life of amiable domesticity. 

Just the other day Gable laid $65,000 on the line for Raoul Walsh’s Encino estate, a tree-shaded paradise with orange and lemon groves, swimming pool, stables, kennels, and all the other paraphernalia for the luxurious rural life which Clark and Carole both crave.

For neighbors they will have Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler, Darryl Zanuck, Edward Everett Horton and numerous other movie biggies.

Financial Settlement

Announcement of Mrs. Rhea Gable’s departure for Reno was made by Judge Isaac Pecht, her attorney, with whom Gable’s lawyer, W.I. Gilbert, worked out the financial settlement.

The last hurdle was cleared when Gable agreed to pay the income tax on all payments to his estranged wife, which ultimately will total around $500,000.

Settlement of the long feud was accompanied expressions of hearty good will on both sides. 

“I am sorry that we could not make a success of our marriage but after three years of separation we see clearly that our future happiness lies along different lines,” said Mrs. Gable. “I sincerely hope that should Mr. Gable decide to marry Carole Lombard or anyone else, he will find the happiness he so richly deserves.” 

Said Gable: 

“I regret bitterly that a short time ago a story was printed to the effect that I would seek a divorce from Mrs. Gable. Mrs. Gable and I had a fine life together until the time came when we both realized we could no longer make a go of it. After years of separation, it is only natural that Mrs. Gable should institute proceedings that will assure her freedom.” 

Mrs. Gable is 11 years older than Clark. She was 41 when they married at Santa Ana, Cal., in 1931. She was a well-to-do widow. They separated in November 1935, and have lived apart since.

Mourn Muffed Marriage

January 20, 1939 (Associated Press) 

Regret over a broken marriage expressed today by Film Actor Clark Gable and Brunette Rhea Gable, who indicated she would seek a Nevada divorce soon. 

They have been separated three years. 

Gable said difficulties arising from legal interpretation of portions of the property settlement they signed at the time of separation had been “completely clarified and disposed of the mutual satisfaction of Mrs. Gable and myself.” 

“Mrs. Gable and I enjoyed a fine life together until the time when future happiness was precluded,” the actor said. “I have the highest regard for her and sincerely regret it was not possible for us to make our marriage a success.” 

She said:

“It is with deepest regret that Clark and I did not find happiness in our marriage.”

Mrs. Gable admitted she planned to take up residence in Nevada, where divorce is possible in six weeks. 

Hollywood friends predicted Gable would marry Carole Lombard, film actress, with whom he has kept company the past two years. 

Clark Gable’s Wife Leaves

January 20, 1939 (Los Angeles Times)

Clark Gable’s wife Maria (Ria) Langham Gable left last night to establish residence in Las Vegas, Nev., preparatory to bringing a divorce action against the film star. 

She will make her home with Attorney Frank McNamee, it was disclosed yesterday, and is expected to file her action as soon as six weeks residence has been established. 

It also became known yesterday that instead of a property settlement of approximately $285,000, Mts. Gable went to Nevada with a new property agreement in her purse assuring her of close to $500,000.

JOINT STATEMENT

Attorneys for both parties issued a joint statement in which they admitted that Mrs. Gable will probably file for divorce action against her husband. All technicalities of the property settlement, which had held up an earlier divorce suit, have been clarified and agreed to by Clark and his wife, they declared. 

Both Clark and his wife expressed regret that their marriage could not have resulted in continued happiness together.

Friends of the Gables and of Carole Lombard speculated yesterday on how soon after the divorce is granted there will be a new Mrs. Gable. No dissenting voice was lifted to the proposal that Gable an Miss Lombard marry as soon as he becomes an eligible grass widower. 

GABLE’S COMMENT

“Mrs. Gable and I enjoyed a fine life together until the time when future happiness was precluded,” Gabel said yesterday. “My wife has been extremely co-operative in all respects of the property settlement. Both of us were upset and shocked at the rumor that I intended to get the divorce. Never did such a thought enter my mind and the rumor was most offensive.

“At the present time we find ourselves as completely apart as when we first separated in 1935 and it is natural that Mrs. Gable should be thinking of instituting divorce action.” 

Mrs. Gable admitted that she is leaving to make her future home in Nevada and that she will probably seek a divorce while there. 

Mrs. Clark Gable Moves For Divorce

January 20, 1939 (United Press)

LAS VEGAS, Nev. – Mrs. Rhea Gable arrives today for the required six weeks Nevada residence, after which she may obtain a long-expected divorce from Clark Gable, the actor.

A property settlement has been arranged; her living quarters have been reserved, and Gable will be freed from his second marriage. Hollywood believed he and Carole Lombard, his constant companion, would be married by April. California law requires a year for divorce to become final.

It was expected that Mrs. Gable would sue on routine grounds of incompatibility. Her petition will be heard privately by a judge, as is customary in this state. 

Mrs. Clark Gable To Nevada For Divorce

January 20, 1939 (INS)

Clark Gable, filmdom’s No. 1 he-man star, and the beautiful Carole Lombard will probably be married in April, it was learned today. 

They can be married in six weeks, for Gable’s estranged wife, Mrs. Ria Gable, left last night for an unannounced destination in Nevada where she plans to take up residence and secure a divorce. 

However, neither Gable nor Miss Lombard would comment on when they would be married, but close friends predicted the popular film couple would march to the altar in early April. 

Estranged for the past three years form Gable, Mrs. Gable announced that a property settlement had been completed to the satisfaction of each, and through her attorneys, said she would go immediately to Nevada. 

“It is true that I am going to make Nevada my future home, and will probably seek a divorce form Clark, but in doing so it is with the deepest regret that we were unable to find our marriage the happiness we both desired,” Mrs. Gable told an intimate friend last night. 

Wife of Movie Star Chooses Las Vegas As Six-Weeks’ Residence

January 23, 1939 (Universal Press)

Mrs. Rhea Gable settled herself in a bachelor’s 7-room home today and waited for six weeks to roll by so she can obtain a divorce from Clark Gable, the handsome movie hero. 

Frank McNamee, Jr., Las Vegas attorney, moved out of his home so Mrs. Gable could move in upon her arrival from Hollywood yesterday. McNamee was retained as her attorney.

The lawyer said Mrs. Gable will charge extreme cruelty, the mildest grounds on which divorce is obtainable in Nevada. He indicated that she will complain the difference in their ages (she is 11 years Gable’s senior) and general interests made their marriage unworkable.

Settlement Delayed

Mrs. Gable, who was accompanied here by her maid and a cook, said she would have established Nevada residence earlier except for income tax difficulties which delayed the property settlement. 

“After we settled up everything to Hollywood, I really felt free to sever our marital ties,” she said. 

She revealed for the first time that she had come here a week ago “to look over the lay of the land” and then returned to Hollywood.

“I plan to have friends come to Las Vegas on weekends to help pass the time and meanwhile I plan to rest,” she said. “As for my plans, I may take a few walks and visit places I wanted to see on previous trips with Clark – you know, when he was going into Utah on hunting trips. But my main plan is to rest and take it easy after a siege of Hollywood parties.” 

To Meet Residents

Mrs. Gable said she preferred Las Vegas to Reno for her required six weeks’ residence because she had a better chance to “meet the really nice local residents.” 

Her husband is expected by Hollywood friends to marry Carole Lombard as soon as she obtains her decree.

Mrs. Gable in Nevada

January 30, 1939 – The Daily Journal

Mrs. Clark Gable admires the view from the Las Vegas, Nevada, home of her attorney, Frank McNamee, where she established residence to obtain a decree form her actor-husband. Gable is expected to marry Carole Lombard after the divorce. 

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The 2023 AAFCA Awards Winners Are...

AAFCA Awards The African American Film Critics have announced the winners of their annual awards! AAFCA actively reviews and spotlights cinema with a 100-plus member voting body. The organization, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2023, will be announcing additional special events and programming in the coming months. The critic group is set to host an annual award show in Los Angeles on March 1st. “AAFCA is deeply honored to recognize some of the most captivating films and performances of the year,” said AAFCA president and co-founder Gil Robertson. “These thought-provoking stories of strength, determination and courage lift us and entertain us. It’s an honor to recognize the incredible, visionary work both in front of and behind the camera of this year’s AAFCA Award winners.” A ceremony to honor the winners is set for March 1 at the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills. Here are some of the AAFCA Awards 2023 winners: Best Picture The Woman King In the 1800s, a group of all-female warriors protects the African kingdom of Dahomey with skills and fierceness, unlike anything the world has ever seen. Faced with a new threat, Gen. Nanisca trains the next generation of recruits to fight against a foreign enemy that's determined to destroy their way of life. Best Director Gina Prince-Bythewood The Woman King Gina Maria Prince-Bythewood is an American film director and screenwriter. She is known for directing the films Love & Basketball, Disappearing Acts, The Secret Life of Bees, Beyond the Lights, The Old Guard, and The Woman King. Best Actor Jeremy Pope The Inspection Jeremy Pope is an American actor and singer. Pope is the sixth person in Tony Award history to be nominated in two categories for separate performances during the same year. The Inspection is the tale of a young, gay Black man with few options for his future who decides to join the Marines, willing to do whatever it takes to prove himself to his estranged mother and triumph in a system that would otherwise cast him aside. Best Actress: Danielle Deadwyler Till The true story of Mamie Till-Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who was brutally lynched in 1955 while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. Danielle Deadwyler is an American actress. She began her career appearing on the Atlanta stage, notably the 2009 production of For Colored Girls, before making her screen debut in the 2012 drama film A Cross to Bear. Best Supporting Actor Brian Tyree Henry Causeway Lynsey, a U.S. soldier, experiences a traumatic brain injury after an IED explosion during her tour in Afghanistan which forces her to return home to New Orleans. She struggles to return to her daily life with her mother as she waits for her wish to return for redeployment. Her doctor is reluctant to sign her waiver to return as he feels that trauma is a strong link to her depression. As she improves with rehabilitation, she becomes unlikely friends with James, an auto mechanic, who also has physical and mental trauma Best Supporting Actress Angela Bassett Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M'Baku, Okoye, and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T'Challa's death. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with Nakia and Everett Ross to forge a new path for their beloved kingdom. Emerging Face Jalyn Hall Till & Bruiser Jalyn Hall is an American actor best known for his role as Dillon James on All American. He was cast as Emmett Till in the 2022 film Till. The full list of the AAFCA Awards winners can be found on the AAFCA home page. Congratulations to all of the winners of these prestigious awards! Read the full article

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Artists I Like

(Listmaking is totally a creative exercise, right? Right? If that’s true then this is the longest running creative exercise I’ve ever indulged in lol)

Gerda Wegener - fashion & lesbian art nouveau/deco

Harry Watrous - enigmatic paintings of sophisticated women

Helen Frankenthaler - abstract expressionist paintings

Sergio Toppi - italian illustrations & comics

Dan Hillier - contemporary spooky angelic ink/print/collage

Mike Binge - 70s sci fi art

Gustave Dore - highly detailed wood-engravings prints, dante

Paul César Helleu - numerous portraits of beautiful society women

Roberto Ferri - making the old masters cool again

Gustav Vigeland - weird figure sculptures

NC Wyeth - one of america’s greatest illustrators

Andrew Wyeth - melancholy realism painter

Frank Frazetta - best fantasy & pulp artist

John Buscema - conan comics artist

Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez - wonder woman comics artist

Parker Hagarty - landscapes & figures

Henry Patrick Raleigh - star of golden age of illustration, high society drawings

Paul Lehr - 70s future-fantasy pulp illustrations

Stanley Meltzoff - 50s scifi/pulp cover illustrations

Alphonse Mucha - art nouveau

Kawase Hasui - japanese woodblock prints

Edmund Dulac - delicate detailed book illustrations

Makoto Takahashi - vintage shoujo manga

Harry Clarke - super detailed & dark art nouveau/deco illustrations

Sophie Lecuyer - contemporary spooky illustrations

Wassily Kandinsky - abstract geometry

George F. Kerr - book illustrations

Beatrix Potter - book illustrations

Mary Bauermeister - eclectic sculptures & drawings - geomancy

John William Waterhouse - Pre-Raphaelite paintings

Alexandre de Riquer - gorgeous mucha-esque posters & illustrations

Gianpaolo Pagni - patterned graphic designs

Giovanni Boldini - dynamic paintings/portraits, “Master of Swish”

Erté - art deco fashion ladies (new orleans!)

Cicely Mary Barker - fairy illustrations

Dorothy P. Lathrop - beautiful childrens book black n white illustrations

Kay Nielsen - glittering golden age illustrations

Coles Phillips - “fadeaway girl” golden age illustrations

Gustav Klimt - gold 💋

Koloman Moser - patterned art nouveau

Konstantin Tarasov - contemporary colorful & detailed digital drawings

Carlo Dolci - soft & dramatic chiaroscuro baroque religious portraits

Trung Le Nguyen aka Trungles - deviantart digital artist, colorful golden age mixed with anime illustrations

John Everett Millais - Pre-Raphaelite paintings

Arthur Rackham - English golden age illustrations, muted colors

Syd Mead - industrial & sci fi concept art

Mario Garbuglia - Barbarella set design

Henri Patrice Dillon - dreamy fadeaway muted illustrations/paintings

Frantisek Kupka - later Czech painter who began in representational art and evolved into pure abstraction

John Bauer - classic nordic fairy tale/myth illustrations

Aya Takano - superflat/anime but make it fine art

John Singer Sargent - heavenly portraits

Winslow Homer - masculine largely marine landscapes

George Barbier - art deco illustrations

Edward Okuń - polish art nouveau & symbolist painter

Robert Anning Bell - paintings & illustrations

Thomas Cooper Gotch - sorta preraphaelite paintings, portraits of girls

Jules Chéret - colorful french posters

Kaarina Kaila - dreamy soft children’s illustrations (almost kitsch)

Helen Hyde - japanese woodblock prints but actually they’re american

Melchior Lechter - paintings and book designs. “His hieratic, symbolic, decorative style combined gothic elements with art nouveau”

Jan Mankes - gentle unlined dutch paintings

Amrita Sher-Gil - contemporary indian paintings, mostly of woc

Sydney Long - australian watercolor landscapes

Carlos Schwabe - freaky religious/mythological symbolist paintings

Bob Pepper - groovy 60s-80s pulp illustrations

Frank R. Paul - scifi illustrations

Chéri Hérouard - La Vie Parisienne french illustrations

John Berkey - scifi illustrations/concept art

Aubrey Beardsley - fin de siecle black and white illustrations

Charles Caryl Coleman - pretty still lifes & landscapes, flowers & capri

Erich Schutz - Austrian illustrator of children's books, Schutz was influenced by Art Nouveau, and specialised in painting fairies and mermaids

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - French painter, printmaker, caricaturist and illustrator

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale - lush detailed paintings of richly dressed figures and scenes

Anne Claude de Caylus - not sure if he actually made them but print illustrations of peasantfolk

Friedrich König - Austrian prints & paintings, Klimt contemporary

Georges Barbier - french illustrations like erté

Betty Jiang - contemporary pretty pearly & dark digital art

Stephan Sinding - marble sculptures of lovers

Heikala - contemporary soft & sweet watercolor & ink illustrations anime inspired

Paul-Albert Besnard - french prints & paintings in between academic & impressionist

Henry Ossawa Tanner - biblical realism paintings

Norman Lindsay - etchings with lotsa great figures

Michael O’Toole - colorful landscapes

Caspar David Friedrich - moody Romantic paintings

Gian Lorenzo Bernini - iconic baroque marble sculptures

Francois Schuiten - french detailed architecture comic art

Adrienne Gaha - colorful contemporary half-abstract paintings

Tradd Moore - trippy silver surfer comic art

tono/rt0no (on tumblr) - super cute illustrations of victorian cats ;-;

Nanaco Yashiro - pretty colorful contemporary illustrations

Ramiro Sanchez - contemporary traditional painter, director of painting program at Florence Academy of Art

Isabella Fassler - contemporary colorful illustrations

Florence Harrison - art nouveau childrens book fairy tale illustrations

Shahzia Sikander - contemporary Pakistani-American visual artist

Atelier Heinrichs - trippy colorful collage covers for sci fi pulps

John Macallan Swan - pretty kitties

JC Leyendecker - our fave dapper gents

Frederick Sandys - pre raphaelite paintings

Stepan Kolesnikov - realist yet stylized russian paintings

Okumi Iyo - embroidered illustrations

William Henry Barribal - colorful art deco paintings

Ilya Glazunov - russian historical/orthodox paintings in the time of communism

Igor Karash - spooky illustrations

Daud Ahkriev - his drawings of fishermen

Seiichi Hayashi - pretty, contemporary japanese manga & illustrations ft women

Nola (nolawon.art) - pretty, detailed takashi murakami-esque illustrations

Harrison Fisher - classic american illustrator, pretty women

John Austen - gorgeous black n white detailed hamlet illustrations

Gustave Moreau - fantastical & aesthetic french paintings admired by proust

Ceri Richards - welsh abstract paintings of people indoors

Otto Mueller - highly textured angular colorful paintings with bold lines

Henri Privat-Livemont - Art Nouveau posters

Giovanni di Paolo - prolific painter and illustrator of manuscripts, including Dante's texts

Ben Reeves - contemporary painter, moody & blue-heavy collages of colors

Alex Niño - amazing abstracted comic artist

Ludovic Alleaume - dreamy french paintings

Yoshiko Fukushima - unsettling figures with strange colors, superflat paintings

Zinaida Serebriakova - kind realistic russian paintings of pretty women and children

Harold Robert Millar (H.R. Millar) - famous Scottish graphic artist and illustrator of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Alice Marshall - delicate illustrations of fairies on black background

Stanislaw Kamocki - colorful Polish landscape paintings

Bertha Lum - American version of Japanese woodblock prints

Raphael Kirchner - art deco fashion illustrations

Tamara de Lempicka - highly stylized art deco portraits of ladies, polish

Phil Greenwood - bright pop-y floral landscapes

Rose Cecil O'Neill - vintage illustrations & cartoons

John Rush - great use of color in figure drawings

Jean Delville - otherworldly paintings

Paul-albert Besnard - monochromatic prints

Helene Schjerfbeck - modernist subtle portraits

Heinrich Lefler - beautiful detailed narrative paintings/illustrations

Maximilian Liebenwein - art nouveau illustrations

Franklin Booth - detailed pen and ink drawings

Ulla Thynell - dreamy contemporary illustrations

Jun'ichi Nakahara - japanese graphic artist, early manga

K.F.E. von Freyhold - playful German book illustrations

Beth Billups - contemporary abstract painter

William McGregor Paxton - interior scenes of woman like Henry James depicts them

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite - Australian illustrator of children's books. Her work mostly depicted fairies

Ernest Biéler - Swiss painter, draughtsman and printmaker

Junko Ogawa (@junk_junk_junk on ig) - surreal anime style drawings

Marianne Stokes - Austrian painter, one of the leading women artists in Victorian England

Lee Mullican - abstract paintings

Rae Klein - creepy surreal paintings

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Hi! Are there any writers you'd consider under-appreciated or overlooked?

Mary Karr ! I only say that because I hadn’t heard of her before. And I haven’t actually read her yet but I’ve ordered The Liars Club. I would also add that I think Brian Dillon, Percival Everett, Leslie Jamison and Lauren Elkin should be read more. I don’t know if they are under appreciated or overlooked because I think that’s a difficult thing to define but those are a bunch of writers I really love who aren’t household names. Hope that’s a good answer !

Brian Dillon, ‘Essayism’ and ‘Suppose A Sentence’ (Non-Fiction/On Writing)

Percival Everett, ‘Erasure’ (Fiction)

Mary Karr, ‘The Liars Club’ (Memoir) and I also recommend the interview The Paris Review did with her

Leslie Jamison, ‘The Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain’ (Essay) and I’d like to read her essay collection ‘The Empathy Exams’

Lauren Elkin, ‘Flânuese: Women Walk The City’ (Non-Fiction and part memoir on the subject of Flânerie and women)

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rape/sa tw

you’ve likely already heard about the recent lawsuit filed by an anonymous girl against the chl, hockey canada, and eight men whose names have not been released; if not, you can read about it here. i’ve seen a list of the 2018 team canada roster floating around with a lot of people worried that some of the big names on it might have been involved in the incident. i’ve done some research and think i’ve narrowed down who might have been involved. rest under the cut.

the short version is that on april 20th, 2018, shortly after a hockey foundation canada gala, a woman was gang-raped by eight chl players, more than one of whom were on team canada at the time. after settling with the plaintiff out of court, neither the chl nor hockey canada have released the names of the players involved. based on the facts that have been made available, i’ve attempted to identify which athletes on the 2018 canadian team are most likely to have been defendants in the case. it seems to me that the national team players involved were alex formenton and robert thomas, then of the london knights, currently of the ottawa senators and stl blues respectively.

the language used in the lawsuit is the assailants, “including but not limited to members of the Canada U20 Men’s Junior Hockey Team,” were all teammates in the chl. what that means is that any athlete on team canada who was not in the chl is not implicated. those athletes are cale makar (then playing for the umass minutemen), colton point (colgate university), dante fabbro (boston university), and victor mete (montreal canadiens).

the lawsuit claims that all eight of the assailants were chl teammates. it also claims that memberS - plural - of the national team were implicated, meaning that any athlete who was the only representative of his chl team on team canada was not a participant in the assault. this suggests that carter hart (everett silvertips), jake bean (calgary hitmen), kale clague (brandon wheat kings), jonah gadjovich (owen sound attack), maxime comtois (victoriaville tigres), taylor raddysh (eerie otters), tyler steenbergen (swift current broncos), drake batherson (cape breton screaming eagles), michael mcleod (mississauga steelheads), brett howden (moose jaw warriors), sam steel (regina pats), and jordan kyrou (sarnia sting), each of whom were the only representative of their chl team on team canada that year, are also not implicated.

what that leaves us with is a set of athletes who fit the criteria for those that assaulted the anonymous girl: at least two men who played for the same chl team and were on team canada in 2018. they are connor timmins and boris katchouk, then of the sault ste. marie greyhounds, OR callan foote and dillon dubé of the kelowna rockets, OR alex formenton and robert thomas of the london knights.

that’s what we know for certain; the rest is conjecture. i would say that the team based in london, ontario is the most likely to have been present in london, ontario at the time the gang rape took place. i think the team canada defendants in the lawsuit whose names they refuse to release are alex formenton and robert thomas, both on the london knights roster at the time. they are also both currently in the nhl: alex formenton is on the sens, robert thomas is on the blues.

if you or any loved ones travel in the same circles as these guys or would be likely to encounter them, i wanted to share this with you. it’s my hope that the names of the athletes will be released by someone who actually knows for sure at some point, especially considering there are six other men out there who brutalized this girl, but in the meantime, i think having a shortlist of people who may be dangerous is valuable for anyone who is at risk as a potential victim.

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Savage Cinema.

From anarchists and adultery to milk baths and massacres, Matthew Turner shares five of the weirdest and wildest highlights of Hollywood’s pre-Code era, as #PreCodeApril comes to a close.

Pre-Code April was directly inspired by Noirvember, a month-long celebration of noir cinema instigated by Marya Gates (Oldfilmsflicker). I did Noirvember for the first time in November 2019, really enjoyed it, and thought it would be great to do the same thing for pre-Code movies. Although I’ve watched most of the classic 1930s films, I realised there were a huge number of pre-Code films I’d never seen (of my Letterboxd list of over 900 Pre-Code films, I have only seen 200).

As a sucker for a bit of wordplay, no matter how tenuous, I picked April partly because it’s six months away from Noirvember and partly because of the shared “pr” sound in April and Pre-Code. I’ve been absolutely delighted by the response—the #PreCodeApril hashtag on Twitter is a daily treasure trove of pre-Code-related joy, but I was genuinely thrilled to see the response on Letterboxd (here is my watchlist for the month). It’s been a real pleasure to see pre-Code movies constantly popping up in my ‘new from friends’ feed. My hope is that it’ll be even bigger next year—and that maybe TCM will want to get involved, the way they do with Noirvember.

Produced between 1929 and 1934, pre-Code cinema refers to films made in a brief period between the silent era, and Hollywood beginning to enforce the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines (mandatory enforcement came in from July 1934). The “Code” in question was popularly known as the Hays Code, after then MPPDA president Will H. Hays. As the depression set in and box office declined, theater owners needed fare that would drive cinema-goers to the movies. It was a wild time to be a scriptwriter; they threw everything at the page, designers added even more, and actors played out the kinds of scenes, from the suggestive to the overt, that would otherwise be banned for decades to come.

The following five films demonstrate some of Hollywood’s craziest pre-Code excesses. They’re still jaw-dropping, even by today’s standards, and notably give female characters an agency that would be later denied as the Christian morals of the Code overruled writers’ kinks.

Madam Satan (1930) Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, written by Elsie Janis, Jeanie Macpherson and Gladys Unger

A critical and commercial flop in 1930, Cecil B. DeMille’s utterly insane musical comedy stars Kay Johnson as a straight-laced wife who plots to win back her unfaithful husband (Reginald Denny) by seducing him at a costume party, disguised as a mysterious devil woman. The location of this party? Oh, nothing too fancy, just on board a giant zeppelin. (“Madam Satan or: How the Film gets Fucking Crazy on the Blimp,” as Ryan reviewed it.)

Madam Satan is not by any stretch of the imagination a good movie (the editing alone is laughably bad), but as a piece of pre-Code craziness, it really has to be seen to be believed. Co-written by a trio of women and set in just three locations, it goes from racy bedroom farce to avant-garde musical to full-on disaster movie after a bolt of lightning hits the blimp.

The film is justly celebrated (in camp classic circles, at least) for the wildly over-the-top costumes paraded in the masquerade ball sequence, but there’s weird outfit joy everywhere you look. Keep an eye out for an enterprising extra who’s come dressed as a set of triplets.

Call Her Savage (1932) Directed by John Francis Dillon, written by Tiffany Thayer and Edwin J. Burke

Adapted from a salacious novel by Tiffany Thayer, Call Her Savage was former silent star Clara Bow’s second-to-last film before her retirement at the age of 28. She plays Texas gal Nasa Springer, who’s always had a “savage” temper she can’t explain. In the space of 88 minutes she goes from wild teenager to jilted newlywed to young mother to prostitute to wealthy society girl to alcoholic before finally (it’s implied) settling down with her Native-American friend after discovering that she’s half-Native-American, something the audience has known all along.

Bow’s performance is frankly astonishing, to the point where you simply can’t believe what you’re seeing from one moment to the next. Sample scenes see her savagely whipping both a snake and her Indian friend, smashing a guitar over a musician’s head and violently wrestling her Great Dane… and that’s all in the first five minutes. She’s also frequently in a state of near undress throughout—one funny scene has her maids chasing her with a dressing gown because they’re afraid she’ll run down the street in her négligée.

The rest of the film includes alcohol, adultery, strong violence, attempted rape, murder, syphilis (not named, but heavily implied) and baby death. It’s a veritable smorgasbord of outrageous content and Bow is pure dynamite throughout. The film is also noted for being one of the first on-screen portrayals of homosexuality, when Nasa visits a gay bar in the Village frequented by “wild poets and anarchists”.

Smarty (1934) Directed by Robert Florey, written by Carl Erickson and F. Hugh Herbert

This deeply problematic sex comedy features pre-Code stars Joan Blondell and Warren William (often nicknamed ‘The King of Pre-Code’) at their absolute filthiest. Blondell plays Vicki, a capricious, happily married wife who gets an obvious kick out of taunting her husband, Tony (William). When he cracks and slaps her at a party, she divorces him and marries her lawyer, Vernon (Edward Everett Horton), whom she also goads into slapping her in a deliberate ploy to win back Tony.

Essentially, Smarty hinges on Vicki liking rough sex and it’s completely blatant about it, ending with her sighing “Hit me again” (the film’s UK title!) as they sink into a clinch on a couch, a rapturous expression on her face. It’s a controversial film because on the surface it looks like it’s condoning domestic violence, but it’s very clearly about Vicki’s openly expressed sexual desires—she wants to be punished and dominated, she just has a rather dodgy way of getting what she wants.

It might be unsophisticated, but in some ways Smarty is remarkably ahead of its time and ripe for rediscovery. To that end, it would make a fascinating double bill with Stephen Shainberg’s Secretary (2002). Oh, and it’s also chock-full of lingerie scenes (like most pre-Code films), if you like that sort of thing.

Massacre (1934) Directed by Alan Crosland, written by Sheridan Gibney, Ralph Block and Robert Gessner

Several pre-Code films (notably those made by Warner Bros) took a no-punches-pulled approach to their depiction of social issues, and star Richard Barthelmess actively sought out such projects. Here he plays Joe Thunderhorse, a Native American who’s become famous on the rodeo circuit. When he returns to his tribe to bury his father, he ends up fighting for their rights, taking on corrupt government officials and religious authorities.

Massacre is fascinating because on the one hand it’s wildly insensitive—Barthelmess and co-star Ann Dvorak are both cast as Native Americans—but on the other, it burns with a righteous fury and does more than any other Hollywood film (before or since) to champion the rights and highlight the injustices dealt out to Native Americans. That fury is encapsulated in a horrifying and rightly upsetting rape scene (it happens off-screen, but the cuts leave you in no doubt) that the film handles with surprising sensitivity.

In addition to being a passionate fight against racism and social injustice, the film also has some genuinely shocking sexual content. Most notably, Joe is seen making love to a rich white woman (Claire Dodd, who’s also in Smarty) who has an obvious sexual fetish, flaunting him in front of her friends and making a shrine in her room with Native-American paraphernalia.

The Sign of the Cross (1932) Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, written by Waldemar Young and Sidney Buchman

Yes, this is Cecil B. DeMille again, but no list of weird and wild pre-Code films would be complete without the jaw-dropping ancient Rome epic, The Sign of the Cross. Adapted from an 1895 play by Wilson Barrett, it stars Frederic March as Marcus Superbus (stop sniggering at the back there), who’s torn between his loyalty to Emperor Nero (Charles Laughton) and his love for a Christian woman (Elissa Landi), while also fending off the advances of the Emperor’s wife, Poppaea (Claudette Colbert).

The film is racy enough in its sexual content alone: highlights include the famous scene of Claudette Colbert taking a nude milk bath and an erotic “lesbian” dance sequence, where Joyzelle Joyner’s “most wicked and talented woman in Rome” does ‘The Dance of the Naked Moon’ at Frederic March’s orgy, trying to tempt Landi’s virtuous Christian, to the obvious arousal of the gathered guests.

However, it’s the climactic gladiatorial-arena sequence that will leave your jaw on the floor. Lasting around twelve minutes, it includes: someone getting eaten by a tiger, a tied-up, naked women being approached by hungry crocodiles, pygmies getting chopped up by female barbarians, elephants stomping on heads, a gorilla approaching a naked woman tied to a stake, a man getting gored by a bull, and gladiators fighting to the death, complete with blood and gory injury detail.

The whole thing is genuinely horrifying, even for 2021. Best of all, DeMille pointedly critiques the audience (ourselves included), by showing a series of reaction shots ranging from intense enjoyment to abject seen-it-all-before boredom.

Matthew Turner (FilmFan1971) is a critic, author, podcaster and lifelong film fanatic. His favorite film is ‘Vertigo’. The films in this article are also listed here: Five of the Pre-Code Era’s Most Outrageous Films.

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