10 Old Hollywood Comedies That Are Surprisingly Dark According to CBR

Many modern Americans have a shared mental image of what the old Hollywood comedies were like. In the minds of modern audiences, early 20th-century movies—especially those released under the Hayes code—tended to be wholesome, upbeat, and reliant more on slapstick or screwball dialogue than on satirical commentary. However, a closer examination of Hollywood movies in the 1940s and earlier reveals that early filmmakers–even when hampered by censorship and restrictive societal norms–were willing to explore dark and complex ideas. These older films may seem clean-cut and family-friendly from the outside, but actually watching them reveals something far less naive than this popular conception would suggest.

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