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Film The Moon Is Blue (1953) and The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)

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Director Otto Preminger tried to destroy Hollywood's obsolete Production Code in the '50s by inserting drug use and "deviant" sexuality into his films. Without the Code's seal of approval, he released The Moon Is Blue and The Man with the Golden Arm to resounding success. Mild to today's viewers, the former details a chaste actress courted by two determined men (William Holden and David Niven). The latter features Frank Sinatra's harrowing performance as a determined-to-be-clean heroin addict and card dealer whose spuriously crippled spouse forces him back into addiction. Kim Novak is the alluring companion in a film famous for Saul Bass' paper cut-out graphics and a coolly inventive jazz score.

– Jason Jude Chan

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