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

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

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  • Release: 2008-03-03
  • Director: N/A
  • Writers: Steven C. Smith
  • Language: English
  • Stars: Valerie Spencer , John Landis , Jonathan Kuntz
  • Runtime: 68 min
  • Awards: N/A
  • AKA: Hollywood prohibido (Spain) , Hollywood prohibido: Sexo, pecado y censura (Spain) , Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood , Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (United States of America)
  • Plot: 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. The "code" is the Hollywood Production Code of 1930 (also known as the Hays Code, so named for Will H. Hays, the first head of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America), which was developed in order for movie making in Hollywood to run smoothly in the face of increased outside censors. The code was largely ignored until 1934, when its enforcement was overseen by Joseph I. Breen who took over from Hays and who had a different agenda of moral purity. During those four years, pre-code Hollywood movies are characterized by their rawness and pushing the envelope of sexuality and moral ambiguity (with the depraved side often winning), which were not allowed under the code. What happened to the distribution of pre-code movies during the years that the code was enforced, the reasons for the slow breakdown of the code in the early to mid 1950s, and the reasons for renewed interest in pre-code movies later in the century are also discussed.
  • IMDB:tt1200078
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Valerie Spencer
Self - Narrator (voice)
John Landis (I)
Self
Jonathan Kuntz
Self
Rudy Behlmer
Self
Jerry Beck
Self
Camille Paglia
Self
Hugh Hefner
Self
Jack Valenti
Self
Jeffrey Vance
Self
Molly Haskell
Self
Mark Vieira
Self
Leonard Maltin
Self
Tony Maietta
Self
Joan Crawford (I) (1905–1977)
Various Roles (archive footage)
Ann Dvorak
Vivian Revere Kirkwood (archive footage)
Clark Gable (I) (1901–1960)
Various Roles (archive footage)
Greta Garbo (1905–1990)
Queen Christina (archive footage)
Jean Harlow
Various Roles (archive footage)
Miriam Hopkins
Ivy Pearson (archive footage)
Norma Shearer
Various Roles (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck
Various Roles (archive footage)
Mae West
Tira (archive footage)
Warren William
Various Roles (archive footage)
Will H. Hays
Self (archive footage)
Walter Huston
Various Roles (archive footage)

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