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Showing drug dealing sympathetically was off limits

The Code required crime to be punished and never shown as attractive Under the Production Code, criminals could not be shown winning or being made attractive, and drug trafficking was barred entirely from the screen for years. Studios wrote around the rules with implication and innuendo. Enforcement loosened after the Second World War, and the code was abandoned in favour of ratings. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The Code required crime to be punished and never shown as attractive. The figure is taken from BFI, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.