Spicy films and fabled faces from Hollywood's Pre-Code Era in Sex in the Cinema The Pre-Code Years

ALBANY, Ga. - June 1, 2017 - PRLog -- BearManor Media announces the June 5, 2017 release of the Sex in the Cinema The Pre-Code Years (1929-1934) by Lou Sabini.

Hollywood movies in the 1920s depicted sex, violence, and alcohol and drug abuse with freewheeling abandon, but filmmaking freedom halted with the mysterious murder of director William Desmond Taylor, the drug death of writer-director-actor Wallace Reid, and the rape trials of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. Hollywood had to choose self-censorship or face the moral indignation of the law. They chose to manage movie madcaps themselves.

Will H. Hays, President of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) from 1922 to 1945, prescribed the Production Code in 1930 and began strictly enforcing it in 1934. The Production Code spelled out a set of moral guidelines that were popularly known as the Hays Code. For decades, moviemaking was never the same.

Rediscover 107 spicy films and fabled faces from the Pre-code era. 178 illustrations.

About the author: Lou Sabini attended the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, later teaching and lecturing about film. He is the author of Behind the Scenes of They Were Expendable.

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