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The Hayes code led to some subversive genius movie making, and some blatant false witch hunts.
If communism wasn’t such a hot topic the Hayes code might have seriously damaged film making. As it stands if arguably laid the groundwork for psychology in film that was sorely missing up until then.
There are an abundance of extremely twee blockbusters and b movies from that time though… it can be hard to tell a quality picture from a terrible one by poster and synopsis alone. The western scene was pretty safe around that time, only a few stand outs that pushed the envelope. It pretty much cemented John Wayne as the number 1 popular star because all of his films were merely flirting with peril and the formula was as basic as it gets.
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