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Most galling of all to Hawks, the Hays Office threatened to withhold the production seal unless he added a finale scene with a judge condemning Scarface on the gallows.
But the Hays Office, headed by the former Republican Party chairman Will Hays and his deputy, Colonel Jason Joy, would not give a movie the production seal of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America without a thorough review.
In several large cities audiences booed when the Production seal appeared before films.
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From that point, a movie couldn't get widespread distribution unless it received a Production Code seal, which certified that its morals and its politics had withstood scrutiny.
Since the film was not attached to any studio, Gyssling applied to the Hays Office, whose Production Code seal was vital to a film's US distribution.
Breen also wrote Louis B. Mayer, the president of M-G-M, a seven-page letter proposing sixty cuts in the screenplay — in effect, making a Production Code seal hostage to impossible demands.
At other times, Breen worked alone, and he was definitely the more powerful of the two; withholding a Production Code seal could severely restrict a movie's commercial chances in the American market.
That same year Columbia loaned her to the independent producer-director Otto Preminger to play an understanding "bar hostess" against Frank Sinatra's desperate addict in "The Man with the Golden Arm" — a film that was bravely released without a Production Code seal.
Its mainstream distribution without the Production Code seal of approval helped weaken U.S. film censorship.
Still, the offerings of 1966 showed that studios were no longer afraid to release a film without a Production Code seal.
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