For decades, the Hays code, a real straitjacket of good morals and virtues, has imposed its mark on US cinema. And until 1966! As such, do you know exactly when was the first time a bad word was uttered on the screen?
Columbia pictures
This seems hardly believable, especially if we consider that the famous Hays code, a real straitjacket of good morals and virtues which has imposed its mark on all Hollywood films since 1934, was abandoned in 1966, while it was replaced in 1968 by a system of classification of films by age. And yet.
It was not until the 1967 release of the film From Cold Blood, Richard Brooks' masterpiece adapted from the novel by Truman Capote, for viewers to hear the word Bullshit for the first time on screen, or "bullshit ", in a film produced by a Major; in this case the Columbia. Oddly enough, the film Bullitt is often - and mistakenly - credited with the authorship of this word first spoken / heard on screen, but it is not.
