Were any movies that were originally made during the Hays Code Era remade post Code?
Cape Fear.
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Fly
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
That’s just off the top of my head. I’m sure there are dozens more.
I knew Cape Fear was remade, forgot the original was Hays Code era.
Miracle On 34th Street and 3:10 To Yuma, off the very top of my head.
Last of the Mohicans
Thinking more of movies that were BETTER because they weren’t hindered by the Code.
Yep, The Fly.
Wikipedia has a list of hundreds of movie remakes:
You’ll have to go through them to decide which were made during the Hays Code era and remade after it.
The 1984 remake of the 1942 film Cat People at least had a somewhat understandable sexual element, whereas in the Hayes Code version it was so buried in subtext it was hard to figure out exactly what was going on. And the remake has a gorgeously sensuous Nastassia Kinski and a wonderful New Orleans steamy locale. But the 1984 director Paul Schrader was a poor director, his story kind of wandered aimlessly, whereas the 1942 team of Val Lawton and Jacques Tournier were brilliant. So … kind of a draw. If Lawton and Tournier had had the same kind of freedom Schrader had, they would undoubtedly have made a film that would have made Shraders’ work more transparently bad. Or even if they had had a tiny portion of Schraders’ budget. But they didn’t, and it hurt the original.
Hays Code didn’t end until 1968. So that covers just about any classic movie.
There’s a dozen or so pre-hayes code movies with sound out on dvd. Some have a quick topless shot or suggestive dialog. not even pg-13 by todays standards.
this link lists the required code cuts made on Tarzan and His Mate