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* [[Murder]]s were never to be shown in detail. The operative concerns were twofold: that no person murder another by imitating a murder he saw done on film, and that viewers not be subject to a sick-making spectacle.

* [[Murder]]s were never to be shown in detail. The operative concerns were twofold: that no person murder another by imitating a murder he saw done on film, and that viewers not be subject to a sick-making spectacle.

* Similarly, methods of crime were never to be shown in enough detail as to inspire imitation or, worse yet, to give instruction in crime.

* Similarly, methods of crime were never to be shown in enough detail as to inspire imitation or, worse yet, to give instruction in crime.

* Crime must never "pay." This led, in a number of instances involving adaptations of plots from stage to film, to the requirement that the film end in a manner substantially different from the play. For example, in ''The Bad Seed'' (1956), the child murderess was shown making a desperate search to retrieve the metal-plated shoes she had used to kill her victim, only to die of a [[lightning]] strike.<ref name=BadSeed>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048977/ ''The Bad Seed'' (1956)] at the Internet Movie Database</ref> That scene was not in the original stage script. (Furthermore, the director shot the lightning strike at a wide angle, so that in effect, nature--or [[God]]--struck the fatal blow at a distance.)

* Crime must never "pay." This led, in a number of instances involving adaptations of plots from stage to film, to the requirement that the film end in a manner substantially different from the play. For example, in ''The Bad Seed'' (1956), the child murderess was shown making a foolhardy search, during a [[thunderstorm]], to retrieve a medal that she had stolen from her victim, after her mother had dropped it into the water where the victim had died. The child goes out onto an old and rickety pier, spots the medal, and attempts to retrieve it with a fishing net, only to die of a [[lightning]] strike.<ref name=BadSeed>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048977/ ''The Bad Seed'' (1956)] at the Internet Movie Database</ref> That scene was not in the original stage script. (Furthermore, the director shot the lightning strike at a wide angle, so that in effect, nature&mdash;or [[God]]&mdash;struck the fatal blow at a distance.)

* Intimate interactions not necessary to the plot were not to be shown on camera--and no actor or actress was to appear on camera without a minimum amount of clothing.

* Intimate interactions not necessary to the plot were not to be shown on camera--and no actor or actress was to appear on camera without a minimum amount of clothing.

* Profane or obscene language was never to be spoken.

* Profane or obscene language was never to be spoken.