![]() Movie trailers promised orgies, sexual perversion, violence, and profanity – and they delivered.Īfter objections from a consortium of churchmen and politicians criticizing the movie industry, a Production Code was created in 1934 and signed by every studio to self-regulate. Very little was off limits if film studios had their way in the four-year period from 1930 until 1934, now called the pre-code era, when film studios ramped up violence, sex and sin to draw in audiences in this post silent movie era. ![]() Violence, actresses with dresses open (and no panties), two men kissing, blood sucking scenes that made women lust after the monster, even an elephant crushing a man's skull were de rigueur, writes author Mark Vieira in his fascinating new book Forbidden Hollywood, The Pre-Code Era (1930-1934), When Sin Ruled the Movies, published by Running Press.
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