and even a theater manager, who in the small towns, had a personal relationship with his patrons. If those patrons were offended by a film they saw in his theater, they were uncomfortable when they were leaving the theater. They looked down. They looked away. They did not want to confront the manager. But he knew. And even though he had not made the film in question, he felt responsible. He was showing it. Stories like these convey the history of pre-Code Hollywood in a new way. Film history should never be written without a human context.
