Isn't it strange how everyone's (including liberals') favorite films were all made under the Hays Code, yet, liberals act as if bringing it back would be the equivalent of Auschwitz?
I didn't hear any liberals screaming when Jesse Jackson ordered an industry-wide ban on the "N"-word a while back. And that's different from the Hays Code how???
Oh, that's right! "Free speech" is solely for advancing the historical "thesis," and doesn't apply to the "antithesis!"
Actually most of the movies at the top of the list are from the post Hays era. Hays was a joke, a very bad joke.
I think you need a lesson on the relationship between correlation and causation.
The Hays Code was completely inconsistent and was changed constantly before being dumped altogether. Something like ‘Psycho’ in 1960 or ‘Anatomy of a Murder’ in 1959 would have been verklempt in the mid 40s. Because of the Hays Code, Hitchcockc’s Suspicion had to have its ending changed because the Hays Code would not allow a husband plotting to kill his wife. It rendered the film nonsensical. Great films made in the early 1930s, before the Hays Code, could not be shown again uncut till the mid 60s.