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Dangerous men
pre-code Hollywood and the birth of the modern man
By LaSalle, Mick
- ISBN
- 978-0-31228-311-7
- Publisher
- New York, N.Y. : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2002.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on November 15, 2002
LaSalle, a film critic at the San Francisco Chronicle, believes that the leading men of Hollywood's pre-Code era represent a distinct break from their wimpy or exaggeratedly heroic predecessors in the silent era. They could truly be called "dangerous," both to others and to themselves, because they lived (and frequently died) by their own rules. Whether good guys or villains-they were sometimes an intriguing ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
