Episode 228: Coding Subversion - Post Code Films with Dr. Mandy Elliott

For this episode of Geek4, I'm joined by the returning Dr. Mandy Elliott. The last time Mandy was here, (all the way back to episode 15!) we discussed her love of Alfred Hitchcock movies. This time, we discuss her current obsession with American screwball comedies and those innovative filmmakers who were able to get risque material past the rigid Hays code in the mid 1930s to the 1940s. Filmmakers like Preston Sturges, Howard Hawks, Frank Capra  and Ernst Lubitsch.

And films like HIs Girl Friday  (1940)

and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944) (my personal favourite "alternative Christmas classic - you guys can keep Die Hard).

and To Be or Not To Be (1942).

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