"Unfaithfully Yours" ( Preston Sturges )

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"BREAKING THE CODE
Preston Sturges was a director of comedies, but he was serious about the social commentary he included in these films. He directed the majority of his films in the 1940s, and at that time he had to work under the strictures of the Motion Picture Code which determined what could and could not be included as subject matter for films and how certain subjects could and could not be treated. Sturges showed the ability to skirt the edges of this code in his comedies, and he did so in very interesting ways in his 1948 film Unfaithfully Yours. Much that the Code said could not be done, Sturges managed to do with apparent impunity. In Unfaithfully Yours, he does this with a plot that features a detailed plan for a crime (which the Code said was not allowed), and on first viewing, the first half of the film has a different.."

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