Pre-Code Hollywood: Dames With Guns
In the Myrna Loy clip, it sure sounds like she says the “f” word, but there is no way any of the state and regional censors would had let that pass, let alone the SRC. I’m pretty sure she’s saying “Russian swine,” as he was the legionnaire in the group from Russia, and they’d had words previously in the film.
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Pre-Code Hollywood – Pre‑Code Hollywood refers to the wild, daring era of American filmmaking between the arrival of sound (1929) and the strict enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code — better known as the Hays Code — in 1934.
During these few glorious years, studios pushed boundaries with stories featuring bold women, risqué themes, moral ambiguity, crime, vice, and all the spicy material that would soon be banned. Filmmakers had far more freedom, and they used every inch of it.
It was Hollywood before Hollywood got told to behave.
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