SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK 'N' ROLL
Before the Hays Code created the Motion Picture Production Code, there was a strict self-regulatory code of rules in the mid-1930s. Eric Von Stroheim made the successful and sophisticated sex drama Blind Husbands (1919), and Douglas Fairbanks was the cocaine-snorting detective in The Mystery Of The Leaping Fish (1916). Today the film The Trip (1967), (lot 333), has not yet been given a certificate by the British Board of Censors. Whether these elements are the focus of a film or presented as a sub-plot they have always existed in cinema and the following section contains some of the most interesting posters from the 1930s to the 1980s.
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Eight U.S. one-sheets, circa 1950s, including: Days Of Sin And Nights Of Nymphomaniacs; The Other Side Of Madness; and six others, each -- 41x27in. (104.1x68.6cm.), all (A-) (8)
Eight U.S. one-sheets, circa 1950s, including: Days Of Sin And Nights Of Nymphomaniacs; The Other Side Of Madness; and six others, each -- 41x27in. (104.1x68.6cm.), all (A-) (8)