Hays County’s Overwhelmed Jail System in Dire Shape, Advocates Say

Some inmates are waiting years to see their day in court

"...The first time Hays County Jail officials rushed Melvin Nicholas to the hospital..."

Sept. 9, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Hays County Hell

Elgin Bank Victory May Mean Colonia-like Development

"...Hays County Comissioner Jefferson Barton says that when Travis County..."

June 27, 1997 News Feature by Bob Elder

Moving Violation

Classic sexploitation films shake things up at the Alamo

"...What would Will H. Hays say?..."

Oct. 7, 2011 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

War of Words

Hays County planning battle turns into a war of words.

"...of one of the fastest-growing areas in the nation, Hays County officials in the past half decade took the..."

July 7, 2000 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

Heroes for Sale, Night Nurse, Ladies They Talk About

"...comedies (It Happened One Night). However, before ex-postmaster Will Hays appeared on the scene with the Production Code, Hollywood..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

TV Eye

Films in Complicated Women -- TCM's new festival of precode pictures -- feature many legendary actresses in film history: Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Jean Harlow, Barbara Stanwyck, Marlene Dietrich, Bette Davis, and others.

"...the title comes from the Mick LaSalle book on precode Hollywood...."

April 25, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Love Is a Battlefield

The Austin Film Society presents a new free series on screwball comedy.

"...Sandwiched not so neatly between the introduction of the Hays Office's Production Code -- a sort of standard of..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Scanlines

Sliding Doors

"...Stanwyck In l930, a pinch-faced, snaggle-toothed ex-postmaster named Will Hays wagged a priggish digit at Hollywood and established the..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Screens Feature

Red Headed Woman

Jean Harlow was never sexier than in this pre-Hays Code comedy, risque even by today's standards.

"...Jean Harlow was never sexier than in this pre-Hays Code comedy. With her trademark platinum hair dyed an..."

May 25, 2001 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Behind the Screens

Hidden Hollywood and other secret histories

"...has already appeared in the form of the domineering Hays Code, the agent of censorship in old Hollywood. That's..."

Dec. 28, 2001 Screens Feature by Clay Smith

Lady Killer, Skyscraper Souls, Employees' Entrance

"...double entendres, that couldn't have been made after Will Hays was hired by studio executives to enforce the Production..."

May 5, 2000 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

City Clerk Validates Petition to Put CodeNEXT on Ballot

The city's land use code rewrite is one step closer to public vote

"...Jannette Goodall validated a petition on seeking to put CodeNEXT – and all future land use code rewrites –..."

April 23, 2018 News Post by Sarah Marloff

Reflections

SXSW 2000 Film Festival and Conference

"...things off by introducing the possibility of a ratings code that would impact Hollywood much like the Hays Code..."

March 17, 2000 Screens Feature by Barry Johnson

Other Worlds SF Festival Is in The Honeymoon Phase

Project Greenlight title will be closing night film

"...old and new with a special screening of pivotal pre-Hays Code horror The Old Dark House, complete with a..."

Oct. 17, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...The Hays Code, the informal name for The Motion Picture Production..."

July 26, 2019 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Everything Went Black: Let's Talk About Pron

Why cineastes should give a fuck about anti-porn rhetoric

"...Illegal hooch sales skyrocket!), the 1930 Motion Picture Production Code (aka the Hays Code, stag reels proliferate!), the 1954..."

Sept. 5, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Gómez Goes Negative

Precinct 4 race heats up

"...does live east of I-35, in the 78747 Zip code. Travis County Appraisal District records say otherwise, but we'll..."

March 1, 2010 News Post by Amy Smith

Volleyball, Dalí, and Feminists Rule This Week’s Recommended Events

Arts and culture for the work-week socializer

"...of Austin Film Society’s ongoing Essential Cinema series exploring pre-Hays Code pictures, Supernatural stars Lombard as a socialite possessed..."

Jan. 10, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

AFS Cinema Celebrates Max Fleischer, the Man Who Made Betty Boop Boop-Oop-a-Doop

AFS Cinema spotlights the animation revolution created by Max Fleischer in the Fleischer Studios Legacy

"...an all-ages introduction to his work; and then there's Precode Rarities, spotlighting the wild and free jazz-era creativity that..."

Aug. 4, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

San Marcos’ Police Contract Battles Heat Up

New contract tosses out previously included reforms

"...In San Marcos, the historically conservative town which experienced..."

May 25, 2023 News Post by Brant Bingamon

A Few Faves From the Paramount Summer Classic Film Series

Immortal gems of the cinema help us define a classic

"...hard-boiled and greedily nihilistic 1939 novel, fought off the Hays Code censors by replacing the original text's references to..."

May 24, 2019 Screens Feature by The Screens Staff

Bullock Museum Screens Bonnie and Clyde

Texas Focus series spotlights seminal Sixties film

"...Clyde were the bastard offspring of the gangsters of pre-Hays Code Hollywood, that heady and destitute half-decade when the..."

April 19, 2017 Screens Post by Dougie Gerrard

Chronicle Recommends: May Movies

These picks all feature a "May" in the title or the cast

"...rip-roaring melodrama Shanghai Express. Anti-miscegenation laws and the career-stifling Hays Code had previously led her, like Louise Brooks, to..."

May 29, 2015 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

How I Got Hitched

Richard Whittaker on Hitchcock when he was so very British

"...flash hard enough to leave scorch marks on the Hays Code...."

Oct. 16, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...was having an offscreen affair at the time. The Hays Code, a set of U.S. movie industry moral censorship..."

June 1, 2012 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Behind the Screens

A new play by Neal LaBute falls flat on paper; new and reissued books about gay and lesbian Hollywood, Andy Milligan, Alan Smithee and the auteur theory, and Maya Deren reviewed.

Dec. 28, 2001 Screens Feature

Three on a Match

Three childhood friends experience tragedy as adults when one of them runs away with the gangster boyfriend of another.

"...fine example of the type of content that the Hays Code would vacuum out of movies a couple of..."

June 8, 2001 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

The Gold Diggers of 1933

On the surface, Gold Diggers is fluffy musical fare with Busby Berkeley's delightfully surreal production numbers, but the Great Depression left its mark on the film.

"...that audiences would take home with them. Being a pre-Hays Code film, there's plenty of racy dialogue and situations..."

June 1, 2001 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Hollywood Swingin'

"...the numbers were big -- such as the climactic Hays Code piece, in which the infamous guidelines governing sexual..."

June 4, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Back ~ In Black?

SOS Is Arisen: Let the Confetti Rain Down

"...clock last Wednesday, reversing a 1994 ruling in a Hays County court that invalidated the Save Our Springs (SOS)..."

Aug. 9, 1996 News Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

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