# Movies made before 1960 with Dirty Jokes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 19, 2004, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-made-before-1960-with-dirty-jokes/275634 "2004-11-19T09:24:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-made-before-1960-with-dirty-jokes/275634/21 "2004-11-19T21:47:09Z")
> [@Miss Mapp](#): > > Myrna Loy exclaims in one of the Thin Man movies (when someone rifles through her bureau): “What’s that man doing in my drawers!” Not to mention: “You were shot 5 times in the tabloids.” “They never came anywhere near my tabloids!” ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-made-before-1960-with-dirty-jokes/275634/22 "2004-11-19T21:48:13Z")
Of course, for REAL kinky stuff, you gotta go with the pre-Hayes Code Biblical epics. Frex, Sign of the Cross, which had A) a hot lesbian scene with a Roman empress kissing and fondling a decent Christian girl, implied bestiality with a half-naked woman tied to a post in her role as “Bride of the Ape” and Sally Rand doing a turn as a half-naked woman staked out spreadeagled and suspended as an appetizer for some alligators. There’s also Amazons fighting dwarves, but let’s not go there. [Here’s a link with caps](http://www.jollyroper.com/banter/sign_of_the_cross.html) which I guess is work-safe, but does contain black and white images of the aforementioned half-naked women. Other pages on the site linked to are not work safe. ---
**Author:** ![braintree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@braintree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/braintree)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-made-before-1960-with-dirty-jokes/275634/23 "2004-11-19T21:54:10Z")
There’s one more moment in “Kiss Me Kate” that bears repeating. From the same song. After singing about “Every Tom, Dick, etc…” she leans into the camera and punctuates the song by warbling — I kid you not — “A-dicka-dick”(!) That Cole. He really knew how to push it. There’s the straight line. Have at it. ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-made-before-1960-with-dirty-jokes/275634/24 "2004-11-19T22:24:21Z")
I’ve seen one of Louis Armstrong movies pre-1934. No wonder he was so happy all of the time, and uses his napkin: there was hectic activity right around his piano that makes the movie _Caligula_ look like a Jehovah’s Witness Assembly Hall meeting. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-made-before-1960-with-dirty-jokes/275634/25 "2004-11-19T22:33:36Z")
Where the hell is Eve? She’s gotta be a font of old dirty movie goodnes… ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-made-before-1960-with-dirty-jokes/275634/26 "2004-11-19T22:46:52Z")
[The Outlaw](http://www.jollyroper.com/banter/outlawreview.html) has a lot of implied gay themes (this one is completely work-safe). As one IMDB commentator put it, “I’ve seen less obvious stuff in gay porn!” [Son of Sinbad](http://www.jollyroper.com/banter/winter02/sonosinbad/sonosinbad.html) had a lot of bondage, lots of half-naked dancing girls, and one foot-fetish scene with Vincent Price stroking a slavegirl’s bound ankle as they talk. And there’s also [Roman Scandals of 1933](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Roman+Scandals+of+1933%22&btnG=Google+Search) which features nudity, nipple jewelry (worn outside the bra, but still dangling from the nippular area, bondage and a topless dancing slavegirl. I’m including a two-step link as this one has a non- work-safe image in it.) ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-made-before-1960-with-dirty-jokes/275634/27 "2004-11-19T23:04:10Z")
> [@Loopydude](#): > > Where the hell is Eve? She’s gotta be a font of old dirty movie goodnes… Look closer–she posted one of the best ones so far. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-made-before-1960-with-dirty-jokes/275634/28 "2004-11-19T23:50:36Z")
:smack: :o 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-made-before-1960-with-dirty-jokes/275634/29 "2004-11-20T00:27:21Z")
For not-so-veiled homosexuality, you can’t do too much better than Dr. Praetorius in **The Bride of Frankenstein**. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-made-before-1960-with-dirty-jokes/275634/30 "2004-11-20T01:31:43Z")
The early 20’s, silent version of Ben-Hur had a couple of goodies. In a scened where Judah is driving a chariot in procession, celebrating a race victory in Rome, there are long-haired, topless girls throwing flower petals. And while he is still pulling an oar in the galley, there is a rare scene of male nudity. Some slave is chained standing facing the wall. Presumably he is being punished. Dude is bare butt naked. Full “backal” nudity! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-made-before-1960-with-dirty-jokes/275634/31 "2004-11-20T01:37:22Z")
In _The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek_ (1944), Betty Hutton is a young woman who goes to a dance filled with soldiers, and gets blotto, married and knocked up all in one night. Her character’s name is Trudy Kockenlocker. In the W.C. Fields short _The Dentist_ (1932), he is leaning over and extracting a tooth from a female patient, who writhes in pain so much that she ends up with her legs wrapped around his waist, being carried around by him off the chair as she moans. Crypto-homosexual characters include Gloria Holden as _Dracula’s Daughter_ (1936), Lauren Bacall as Kirk Douglas’ bitter wife in _Man With a Horn_ (1950), Martin Landau as James Mason’s henchman with “feminine intuition” in _North by Northwest_ (1959), Mercedes McCambridge as a butch-looking gang member in _Touch of Evil_ (1958), Sal Mineo as a teenager with a photo of Alan Ladd taped inside his locker in _Rebel Without a Cause_ (1955), Paul E. Richards as a military school cadet in _The Strange One_ (1957), Jay C. Flippen as an affectionate gangster in _The Killing_ (1956), Farley Granger and John Dall as thrill murderers in _Rope_ (1948), Clifton Webb as an ascerbic columnist in _Laura_ (1944), and Judith Anderson as a much too devoted servant in _Rebecca_ (1940). ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-made-before-1960-with-dirty-jokes/275634/32 "2004-11-20T01:45:50Z")
Rock Hudson also pretended to be gay (:dubious:) in order to woo Doris Day (:dubious::dubious:) in _Pillow Talk_ (IIRC). Watch (if you can stand it, it made me want to commit suicide) _Rock Hudson’s Home Movies_ (1994, Mark Rappaport) for an analysis of homosexual undercurrents in Hudson’s films. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-made-before-1960-with-dirty-jokes/275634/33 "2004-11-20T01:46:53Z")
> [@Ilsa\_Lund](#): > > Rock Hudson also pretended to be gay (:dubious: ) in order to woo Doris Day (:dubious::dubious: ) in _Pillow Talk_ (IIRC). Watch (if you can stand it, it made me want to commit suicide) _Rock Hudson’s Home Movies_ (1994, Mark Rappaport) for an analysis of homosexual undercurrents in Hudson’s films. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![START](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@START](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/START)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-made-before-1960-with-dirty-jokes/275634/34 "2004-11-20T07:48:38Z")
Wow I didn’t know there were so many pre 1960’s movies out there with so much R rated material…actually I figured they existed but Thanks for telling me which ones they are. All the replies have been helpful 🙂 . ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-made-before-1960-with-dirty-jokes/275634/35 "2004-11-20T08:06:46Z")
**The Big Sleep** (1946) _Bacall:_ You go too far, Marlowe. _Bogart:_ Those are harsh words to throw at a man, especially when he’s walking out of your bedroom. _Bacall:_ Speaking of horses, I like to play them myself. But I like to see them workout a little first, see if they’re front runners or come from behind, find out what their whole card is, what makes them run. _Bogart:_ Find out mine? _Bacall:_ I think so. _Bogart:_ Go ahead. _Bacall:_ I’d say you don’t like to be rated. You like to get out in front, open up a little lead, take a little breather in the backstretch, and then come home free. _Bogart:_ You don’t like to be rated yourself. _Bacall:_ I haven’t met anyone yet that can do it. Any suggestions? _Bogart:_ Well, I can’t tell till I’ve seen you over a distance of ground. You’ve got a touch of class, but I don’t know how, how far you can go. _Bacall:_ A lot depends on who’s in the saddle. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-made-before-1960-with-dirty-jokes/275634/36 "2004-11-20T14:58:57Z")
No offence **START** , but sexual innuendo was not invented by your generation! People have been people forever. PS- as a kid, I always thought the word “innuendo” was, well, an innuendo! But that was probably because of a bad Italian joke… ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-made-before-1960-with-dirty-jokes/275634/37 "2004-11-20T15:06:38Z")
And I’m keeping quiet about my collection of 1930’s porno films. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-made-before-1960-with-dirty-jokes/275634/38 "2004-11-20T15:09:39Z")
Two books: • [_Pre-Code Hollywood_](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0231110952/qid=1100963621/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/103-0516728-3825423) by Thomas Doherty. • [_Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood_](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0810944758/qid=1100963621/sr=2-2/ref=pd_ka_b_2_2/103-0516728-3825423) by Mark A. Vieira. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-made-before-1960-with-dirty-jokes/275634/39 "2004-11-20T17:18:58Z")
I’ve seen an interview with Robert Walker, who played the antagonist Bruno Anthony in “Strangers on a Train” (1951), where he very plainly says that he and Hitchcock agreed he would play Bruno “gay”. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-made-before-1960-with-dirty-jokes/275634/40 "2004-11-20T17:23:30Z")
Robert Walker died in August 1951, less than two months after the opening of _Strangers on a Train_. I doubt he was giving interviews in 1951 about the gay subtext. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-made-before-1960-with-dirty-jokes/275634.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-made-before-1960-with-dirty-jokes/275634.md?page=3)