It doesn't have anything about Out of the Past, but it covers
a lot of
other films that would interest this list, including
Detective Strory
and The Postman Always Rings Twice, which the Hays office
kept from
being made for over 10 years, until the John Garfield/Lana
Turner
version came up with enough "compensating moral value." These
films
were micromanaged down to the wardrobe--screenwriter Harry
Ruskin
explains, "Turner dressed in white so that the public
understood that
the girl's pure. She may be playing around with the guy, but
she's not
taking her pants off for him." I'm not sure that's what I
understood.
Mark
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