“I regret to have to advise you that we cannot approve your production Ecstasy that you submitted for our examination yesterday for the reason that is our considered unanimous judgment that the picture is definitely and specifically in violation of the Production Code. This violation is suggested by the basic story…in that it is a story of illicit love and frustrated sex, treated in detail without sufficient compensating moral values…”
— Joseph Breen, Hays Office in 1936 regarding the film ‘Ecstasy’
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