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Autor:
John Billheimer
Throughout his career, Alfred Hitchcock had to contend with a wide variety of censors attuned to the slightest suggestion of sexual innuendo, undue violence, toilet humor, religious disrespect, and all forms of indecency, real or imagined. From 1934
Autor:
John Billheimer
The Motion Picture Production Code controlled the content and final cut on all films made and distributed in the US from 1934 to 1968. Code officials protected sensitive ears from the standard four-letter words as well as a few five-letter words like
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Autor:
John Billheimer
Publikováno v:
Hitchcock and the Censors
Under Capricorn proved to be a disaster on several fronts. Hitchcock had never dealt well with costume melodramas, saying that he couldn’t imagine how people of bygone days could manage bathroom trips. He had purchased the property with Ingrid Berg
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https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813177427.003.0019
https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813177427.003.0019
Autor:
John Billheimer
Publikováno v:
Hitchcock and the Censors
The Paradine Case is another example of an instance in which the Code insistence that evildoers must be punished altered the screenplay and weakened the film. The leading character in the source novel was an adulteress and murderess who is acquitted
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https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813177427.003.0016
https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813177427.003.0016
Autor:
John Billheimer
This chapter examines the battles fought by David O. Selznick with the censors over their demands during the making of Rebecca and Hitchcock’s mollifying efforts in acceding to those demands. Selznick purchased the rights to Daphne du Maurier’s b
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https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813177427.003.0007
Autor:
John Billheimer
Publikováno v:
Hitchcock and the Censors
The remake of Hitchcock’s 1934 film retained the title and certain key elements of the original, in which the child of a vacationing couple is kidnapped, including the climactic assassination attempt in Albert Hall. But the details of the story cha
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https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813177427.003.0029
Autor:
John Billheimer
Publikováno v:
Hitchcock and the Censors
The Wrong Man was based on the true story of Manny Balestrero, a New York musician who was unjustly accused of armed robbery and hounded by the legal system until his wife suffered a nervous breakdown. Hitchcock felt so strongly about following the t
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https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813177427.003.0030
Autor:
John Billheimer
Publikováno v:
Hitchcock and the Censors
The Trouble with Harry represented a departure for Hitchcock; the film is a black comedy in which the consistently dry humor undercuts any suspense. The Code office objected to John Michael Hayes’s witty dialogue as well as the illegitimacy of the
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https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813177427.003.0028
Autor:
John Billheimer
Publikováno v:
Hitchcock and the Censors
I Confess is based on a 1902 play in which a priest, after hearing the confession of a murderer, is himself accused of the crime and, unwilling to break the seal of the confessional and reveal the real killer’s identity, is convicted and sent to th
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https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813177427.003.0023
https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813177427.003.0023
Autor:
John Billheimer
Publikováno v:
Hitchcock and the Censors
This chapter describes the decline of the Production Code and its replacement by the current rating system. Two Supreme Court rulings contributed to the end of the Production Code. In 1948, the court ruled that the major motion picture companies coul
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https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813177427.003.0039