Description
Between the advent of talking pictures and the automated content clampdown of the mid-1930s, filmmakers were free to push every envelope to depict crime, sexuality, violence, and hazy morality. Find out how and why the five years between 1929 to 1934, known as the pre-code era, shocked audiences with surprisingly moral ambiguities and brazen content. And how these same filmmakers and stars (including Cary Grant, Barbra Stanwyck, and Gary Cooper) made the necessary shift into a far more restrictive but arguably more innovative period.
