On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, ejmd__ wrote:
> On the Production Code, someone in the BBC film noir
documentary, 'Dark
> and Deadly'--possibly the director of _Gun Crazy_
(name escapes
> me)--
Joseph H. Lewis, who died recently in the age of 95 or
something. I have his autograph, in a still picture of "Gun
Crazy" (the only autograph I have, actually, never collected
them).
> recalls how the restrictions of the code made
filmmakers more
> inventive, so they had to work around the code and
oftentimes came up
> with something better than what they may have done
if they hadn't had to
> devise a workaround.
This is a usual comment made on the Hollywood production
codes. It's commonly thought that the Hays code in the
thirties helped the Hollywood classicism to develop
itself.
Juri
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