A REVIEW OF AGAINST A JUDGE’S ORDERS. TOMMY IS BEING CENSORED FOR MAKING A FILM ABOUT CENSORSHIP — AND HE FACES A LENGTHY TERM IN PRISON FOR DOING SO. TOMMY RAISED FUNDS FOR HIS LEGAL DEFENCE

In addition, the postwar several years observed a gradual, if moderate, liberalization of yankee society. A boycott from the Countrywide Legion of Decency no longer assured a film's professional failure (to the point many films were being now not condemned from the Legion with the fifties), and several facets of the Code experienced slowly dropped