re: Suggestions for a good pre-Code (30's) movie?

Here is the list of pre codes for 1929 alone:


Alibi
Applause
The Awful Truth
Betrayal
Big Time
The Black Watch
Blackmail
The Broadway Melody
Bulldog Drummond
The Canary Murder Case
Careers
Close Harmony
The Cock-Eyed World
The Cocoanuts
Condemned
Coquette
Dance Hall
The Desert Song
Devil-May-Care
Diary of a Lost Girl
The Flying Fleet
Footlights and Fools
The Four Feathers
The Godless Girl
Gold Diggers of Broadway
Glorifying the American Girl
The Great Gabbo
Hallelujah!
Hell's Heroes
Her Private Life
The Hole in the Wall
In Old Arizona
The Kiss
The Lady Lies
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
The Letter
The Locked Door
The Love Parade
Lucky Star
Madame X
Marianne
The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu
Our Modern Maidens
The Pagan
Piccadilly
Painted Faces
Pointed Heels
The Racketeer
Redskin
Rio Rita
The River
Sally
Salute
Street Girl
The Saturday Night Kid
Seven Footprints to Satan
The Single Standard
The Squall
Sunny Side Up
Their Own Desire
This Thing Called Love
Thunderbolt
The Trespasser
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Untamed
The Valiant
The Virginian
Voice of the City
Where East Is East
The Wild Party
The Wolf Song

before these talkies the line was being pushed all the time until many went over the line by 1922 and Hays was called in and his early rules did nothing to stop the push for more depth in the movies, rather than the black and white cardboard characters movies of the time.