Gangsters wielding sharp suits and even sharper grins. Tommy guns and Model As roaring through dark city nights. Ladies in slinky dresses, a dozen diamond bracelets dripping from their arms. Dancing girls, incorrigible cads and man-made monsters. These characters all walked the streets of the pre-Code era, roughly four years of American cinema made during talkie era, before the implementation of what was known as the Production Code. Though always technically subject to restriction and censorshi...
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