THE BRITISH JOURNALIST AND CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST FOR DUMMIES

The Hays Code also expected variations about adaptations of other media. For example, Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca could not retain a major aspect from Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel where the narrator discovers that her partner (the aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter) killed his 1st wife (the titular Rebecca) and she would make light-weight of it,