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Home Alone's film-within-a-film, Angels with Filthy Souls, comes off as a convincing imitation of 1930s gangster films. Would its mild profanity ("get the hell outta here") and non-gory but gleeful ultraviolence have passed the censors in the actual 1930s (both pre- and post-Hays Code)?

by /u/JJVMT in /r/AskHistorians

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