The Code didn’t bring a golden age to movies. It brought a stupid age to movies. Just look at the lame ending they forced on Scarface.
Oh and It Happened One Night was filmed BEFORE the Hays Code was enforced, one of the last movies filmed before enforcement.
I’d hardly call the 40’s and 50’s in film a ‘stupid age’. Wow, there were so many great films made then.
But I love the pre-code dvd’s they’ve got out too. Barbara Stanwyck in Sadie McKee having sex with the railroad guard to be able to stay in the boxcar and get outta town. BUT, there was no sex scene. It was clearly implied.
Red-Headed Woman. Three On A Match, etc.
Netflix has the pre-code series.
The stupid age for movies is now.