The Movie Rating System with Karina Longworth
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The Don'ts and Be Careful
Don't make fun of religion. Be careful about sedition, surgical operations and excessive or lustful kissing. After the Wall Street crash in 1929, the studios are like, we got to sell sex. Like it's the one thing that's still selling. But then a new villain enters our story. Oh my God. And he is an anti-Semitic Iowa Senator named Smith Brookhart. He proposes that the film industry needs to be regulated by the Federal Trade Commission.
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