Word: code
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, as the College of Cardinals balloted on a new Pope, they acted under the tightest code of secrecy in the history of the papacy. Author of the rules, which decreed excommunication for the slightest leak: press-relations-conscious Pius XII, who may have known more about the foibles of Popes' aides and press than anyone thought he knew. With the strict code in force, the edgy press corps watched smoke rise from the chimney in the Sistine Chapel after the first two ballots last week and, in each case, fired off false bulletins. They flashed too soon...
...many cases, e.g., The Key, Desire Under the Elms, defiance of the code has produced superior films that would have been flattened under rigid adherence to the rules. Says Luigi Luraschi, Paramount's agent in charge of code compliance: "Once upon a time the movies had a tendency to leer at sex. I think perhaps the first inkling was in the good foreign pictures shown here that handled sex rather forthrightly but still in good taste. American producers began to see the light...
...Hollywood Production Code...
...them; it was, the movie makes clear, a most enjoyable affair for both parties. Because Harry Black is just a potboiler, rather than an "art film," the liberties taken in the picture point up the fact long recognized in Hollywood but only recently acknowledged: the much-publicized Production Code, which once bulldogged producers and exhibitors, is being observed these days about as often as the whooping crane. In the past few months, Eric Johnston's Production Code Review Board has passed out its seal of approval to these films...
Another light first brightened by the Europeans is the double version-one for export, one for domestic consumption. The code is still strong enough so that U.S. viewers of Cry Tough will see Linda Cristal with a blouse on instead of bare to the waist when she does her love scene with John Saxon. But Hollywood, faced with the stinging competition of TV and foreign films, is in the mood to shed any garments that seem to get in the way at the box office...