pre-Code adjective 1noun 1forms 1 adjective1 •Prior to the introduction of the Hays Code, a set of moral guidelines for the US film industry widely applied between 1934 and 1968. noun1 •A pre-Code movie, especially one that was subsequently banned under the Hays Code.The most brutal pre-Codes take the viewer to Hell, and only sometimes back, just as the noir films did after the war a one-way ticket to oblivion, destruction, and death. — 2013 formspre-Codes
