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It Happened One Night Analysis
The Production Code of 1934 was extremely restrictive and forbade explicit sex, adultery, and homosexuality from the screen. This resulted in some funny comedies such as, “It Happened One Night.” This movie pioneered the screwball comedy. The code forced American comedy to take a new form like the screwball comedy. With so many restrictions, characters used their energies elsewhere, by screaming and also slapping and punching throughout the films. Writers found a way around the

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