Bored on night shift and I am watching "Barabbas" with Anthony Quinn. The 50s and even early 60s were good for Biblical epics. At some point something changed but in our parents lifetime this was ostensibly not the case.
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It was largely when United Artists and Liberty Films were co-opted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Films // Frank Kapra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Artists // Charlie Chaplin etc
When Metro-Goldwin-Meyer ( MGM ) and Paramount https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Pictures started pwning everyone else - we really saw the fall. That was largely around the 1950 - 1965 timeframe where we went from Cecil B Demile to total shit in 1967 when we started seeing the first sexual deviance showing up in film to a substantial level ( shooting began in 1965 here ).
I've done a bit of research back into this - this is basically the timeline.
1950 marked the real beginning of consolidation 1960 we saw agendas really start jumping out after The Graduate in 1967 sexualization exploded and to put it bluntly we had Woody Allen - Hollywood's OG pedo beginning his career in 1965 and Roman Polanski literally starting his career that same here ( Rosemary's baby / Known Sodomy Rapist bastard etc ).
Basically 1965 marked the end of "Old Hollywood" and the beginning of PEDOWOOD