is that the Hays Code was replaced with the current rating system, but alot of early “G” rated movies would be PG-13 now. PG-13 came later, but you’d have thought they’d have been rated PG. True Grit has a bunch of gunfights, John Wayne getting drunk, a girl getting bitten by a rattlesnake, and someone getting their fingers chopped off on camera. Oliver! shows kids working in abusive child-labor conditions and a prostitute being beaten to death (it’s partially obscured so that you don’t see her body while it’s happening, but you can tell what’s going on). And I know I’ve posted this before, but THIS is the ending of the first movie ever rated under the system, which is rated “G” (spoilers, I guess, but you always knew it would end like this):

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