Of course. My, how all those classic films did suffer fron not having the "f-word" spewed forty-nine times every minute. That just ruins them. [/sarcasm]
It’s not the F word, it’s the idiotic rules that largely depended on how well the filmmaker could con the Hays people. The reality is the Hays Code didn’t actually ban anything so long as the filmmaker could convince the gatekeepers that the film had a “moral” message, it’s what lead to “morality movies” (most of the ones that survived to today were “anti-drug” movies) that were really just titillation films with a supposed message. You got movies like Cocaine Devils Powder that had full nudity, but it was OK with Hays because it “showed: the “bad things” people on coke did. Of course then you get the filmmakers that weren’t able to coax the Hays guys so you get things like the silly ending to the original Scarface because the Hays people didn’t think the bad guy getting gunned down was enough punishment, he had to go to court and be punished by the government. Then there’s the whole silliness of not even being able to intimate that couples, including married people, have sex so you wind up all those hokey two bed bedrooms. Hays was stupid.