Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (Smith)

Director: Steven C. Smith
Stars: Valerie Spencer, John Landis, Jonathan Kuntz
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Various film historians, film makers, and cultural commentators discuss the cultural, political, economic and religious reasons for what is known as the pre-code era of Hollywood movie making in the early 1930s, and those same factors which resulted in the drastic turn to working under the code for the twenty or so years starting in 1934.

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