Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941), dir. Alfred Hitchcock. Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery play screwball comedy. When a man and wife discover that a flaw invalidates their marriage licence, they separate before they reconcile. In the final shot of the film, Hitchcock displaces onto the crossing skis, the cooing, and the camera angles what post-code directors would likely simply show—the formerly estranged Smiths are about to resume their lives as lovers. Audience and actors share a humorous, intimate secret. "Excessive and lustful kissing, lustful embraces, suggestive postures and gestures, are not to be shown," the code stipulated. Avoiding all that, the action communicates as does a wink between friends. It murmurs what, in a thousand poems, a bee entering a rose murmurs.