A few classic films have passed me by over the years but I'm trying to catch up. I finally got around to Never On A Sunday.
How in the world did this film get shown in US theatres in 1960? Wasn't the "Code" still in force? Or was this one of the films that brought the Code to it's end?
By 1960 the production code was practically dead in the water. Otto Preminger and others had found ways around it and by the standards of the day it had become ridiculous.
shareSeveral points.
First of all, the Production Code was just that: it dealt with PRODUCTION. It was a voluntary agreement among the studios, drawn up and accepted in order to preclude any federal censorship, as many congressmen and senators were pushing for. So it had little to do with actual screening, which would have been covered by local obscenity laws, and here it's a matter of where the film would have been shown. I remember the film being screened in Philadelphia (I was too young to see it, although I remember people talking about it), though less likely to have been shown in Peoria.
I want to shake every limb in the Garden of Eden
and make every lover the love of my life
Yes.
Perhaps the OP just wants to reach out for some sense of community.