"(A) The presentation of crimes against the law, human or divine, is often necessary for the carrying out of the plot. But the presentation must not throw sympathy with the criminal as against the law, nor with the crime as against those who must punish it."
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"Motion Picture Production Code of 1930", written by Martin Quigley & Daniel A. Lord; extant copy from Thomas Doherty, “Pre-Code Hollywood”, New York, (1999); taken from Olga J. Martin, Hollywood’s Movie Commandments, (1937); Appendix 1, SECOND SECTION WORKING PRINCIPLES
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