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Breaking the Code reveals the efforts of director-producer Otto
Preminger to bring his aesthetic vision to the screen even if it
meant challenging the Production Code, a system of self-censorship
that shaped the movies during the four decades it was in force.
Along the way, Preminger sent shock waves through Hollywood and a
network of exhibitors, publishers, and religious leaders who had
personal, and even financial, stakes in the repression of artistic
freedom. The process of telling this story began in 2003 when Arnie
Reisman and Nat Segaloff thought it might be interesting to write a
play about Preminger's efforts to get a Code seal for his 1954
romantic comedy The Moon is Blue, based on F. Hugh Herbert's 1951
play. In those days, no film could be shown that did not receive
authorization from the Production Code Administration, and his film
was deemed too "adult" for even adults to see. Preminger was met
with opposition from administrator, Joseph Breen, who was prepared
to go to war to save the rest of the country from its
sensibilities. Along with their play Code Blue, which dramatizes
the clash between these two evenly matched but wildly disparate
titans, Breaking the Code chronicles the battle between Otto
Preminger and the Code. Between 1953 and 1962, he fought the
censorship of The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm,
Anatomy of a Murder, and Advise and Consent. The details of each
skirmish vary, but they cover the same issues: art versus commerce,
freedom of speech versus censorship, and money versus principle.
Times may have changed, but these battles continue. Breaking the
Code is an attempt to go back and see how the walls can be made to
crumble.
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