Citation: Vaughn, Stephen JSTOR: Film Quarterly Vol. 49, No. 2 (Winter, 1995-1996), pp. 58-59

This article talks about the financial and social consequences of the production code, as written in a book by Gregory D. Black. In his book he writes how a movie Idiot's Delight and many other movies needed to be severely changed to fit into PCA standards. He later describes how Hays and other social morality groups used the power of boycott to bend Hollywood to adhering to the social and moral restrictions of the code. Since the Great Depression was an eminent threat on movie production in Hollywood, the threat of boycott was enough to make many studios follow the production code.

This resource explains how other movies were hurt by the implementation of the Hays Code and how the studios were not in a position to change it. While Hughes was able to argue for certain scenes in The Outlaw, other producers were less fortunate. Many films were shut down, or cut so badly that they were unrecognizable. Hollywood wanted to make films that would offend the least amount of people, especially people overseas. This hurt many American films, like The Outlaw that did not pass the censorship of the PCA right away, if at all.