Hanging itself is a horrible way to die.....however....in the context of FICTION I feel cheated watching an old TV show or movie in which the crime is only implied and not shown. It isn't too gratuitous to see a western with a dead man swinging from a noose when the trap door opens. A manniquin was an affordable way to achieve that effect. Yet the act itself was not shown even in the later years of GUNSMOKE.
That's as lame as pre-ratings code film made during a time when scenes of extreme violence and sex were not allowed.
A realistically portrayed film is one that tells the story best. For example: James Caan being shot down by multiple machine gun fire in "The Godfather". Francis Ford Coppola accomplished that using squibs.
As for the sex, if Jean Harlow or Marilyn Monroe had been allowed to do nudity and the equivalent of an "R" bedroom scenes back in their day, their films would have been even better. Leaving some things to the imagination is fine for old-time radio, but old movies from the same period suffer the test of time in comparison. After all, Marilyn had posed nude several times in magazines. She could have been the "Kari Wuhrer" of her era.
