The film was co-produced by multinational partners, which reduced the financial risks inherent in the project ; and co-production also ensured enhanced distribution opportunities.

In terms of content, enforcement of the Production Code ensured that no film character could literally get away with murder or be seen sharing a bed with anyone but a spouse ; within those bounds, however, many films now identified as noir feature plot elements and dialogue that were very risqué for the time.

Likewise, the Trust's control of patents on motion picture cameras ensured that only MPPC studios were able to film, and the projector patents allowed the Trust to make licensing agreements with distributors and theaters – and thus determine who screened their films and where.

Such a system ensured that the film studio could produce sequels reliably.

" Contractually stipulated to produce an R-rated film, the brutally violent climax ( depicting a decapitation ) ensured an X rating ( eventually reclassified to NC-17 in 1990 ).

The studio submitted to the MPAA a list of real people with the surname Focker which ensured that the film retained a PG-13 rating.

This ensured that Columbia got the cast album rights and that CBS held all film and TV rights to the property.

The film premiered and opened wide in France on October 15, 1956, was released in the United Kingdom on December 23, 1956 ( as the supporting film to the 1956 Royal Performance Film The Battle of the River Plate ... which ensured it a wide distribution ) and was released in the United States on March 11, 1957.

The Skillset Film Skills Fund which ensured a strong, consistent supply of skilled and talented professionals in line with market demand and aims to build a bigger and better future for the film industry in the UK.

The subsequent media coverage of Salva's criminal history, and speculation as to why Disney would hire a convicted sex offender, ensured that Salva would not make another film until 1999's Rites of Passage.

Rufus, Ruth's father, has a wife in the film, who became insane after the birth of Ruth, and Rufus has ensured her ( his wife's ) safekeeping at a convent, where she has become a nun.

The graphic scenes of the passengers being killed at the end of the film had ensured an " R " rating in theatres and led to two " censored " and " uncensored " versions being released for broadcast and home media.

Problems between Kerrigan and producer Allan Niblo ensured that a sequel never materialized, and Niblo's 2004 DVD re-release of the film, Human Traffic: Remixed, was not well received.

Structural changes that occurred in the industry during this period ensured that studios would become " more important as backers of independent producers than as creators of their own films ", a situation that left little room for the traditional movie mogul.

Likewise, Joseph E. Stiglitz, speaking not only on China but East Asia in general, comments " The countries that have managed globalization ... such as those in East Asia, have, by and large, ensured that they reaped huge benefits ..." According to The Heritage Foundation, development in China was anticipated by Milton Friedman, who predicted that even a small progress towards economic liberalization would produce dramatic and positive effects.

The influence of Intolerance produced a few other films that combined a number of similar stories having similar themes, such as Maurice Tourneur's Woman ( 1918 ), but the box-office failure of Intolerance ensured that these later films had simpler structures.

Switzerland built an extensive network of fallout shelters, not only through extra hardening of government buildings such as schools, but also through a building regulation that ensured that all residential building built after 1968 contained a nuclear shelter able to withstand a blast from a 50 megaton explosion at a distance of 700 metres.

He had stockpiled money to pay for mercenaries and ensured the support of the powerful marcher lords with their own feudal forces, such as William Marshal and Ranulf of Chester.

This led such commentators to offer the figure of Noah as " the man in a fur coat ," who ensured his own comfort while ignoring his neighbour.

Some classical poetry forms, such as Venpa of the Tamil language, had rigid grammars ( to the point that they could be expressed as a context-free grammar ) which ensured a rhythm.

For the Masoretic Text, such statistical information more importantly also ensured accuracy in the transmission of the text with the production of subsequent copies that were done by hand.

The waves of emigration because of the famine and in the years following also ensured that such feelings would not be confined to Ireland, but spread to England, the United States, Australia and every country where Irish emigrants gathered.

This controversy ensured that Nash would not receive any more official commissions nor would he be awarded the Knighthood that other contemporary architects such as Jeffry Wyattville, John Soane and Robert Smirke received.

The patronage of wealthy cloth merchants ensured that the town became an important cultural centre, with major figures such as the poet Jean Bodel and the troubadour Adam de la Halle making their homes in Arras.

Apple's decision to not update the Classic with newer technology such as a 68010 CPU, higher RAM capacity or color display ensured compatibility with the Mac's by-then healthy software base as well as enabled it to fit the lower price-point Apple intended for it.

The inaugural Dee Rocks, originally intended to be a one-off event, took place on Saturday 29 May 2004 but, such was the success of the night, demand ensured Dee Rocks would return and, with Dee Rocks VI having taken place on Saturday 22 May 2010, it has now become an annual fixture in the town raising in excess of £ 12, 000 for local good causes.

The revolt in the Arab world is against not merely a resident dictator, but a worldwide economic tyranny, designed by the US Treasury and imposed by the US Agency for International Development, the IMF and the World Bank, which have ensured that rich countries such as Egypt are reduced to vast sweatshops, with 40 per cent of the population earning less than $ 2 a day.

Resounding victories during the 1805-1807 wars against the Third Coalition and the Fourth Coalition had ensured almost undisputed continental hegemony, to such an extent that no other European power could challenge the might of Napoleon's Empire.

This had never worked before, even during the French and Indian War, and there was no political mechanism in place that would have ensured the success of such cooperation.

The 4CV proved itself a capable rival for cars such as the Morris Minor and Volkswagen Beetle ; its sales of more than half a million ensured its production until 1961.

The increased speed and falling price of PCs ensured the obsolescence of high end system such as Apollo workstations.

Legislation such as the Library Services Act and the Library Services and Construction Act ensured that unserved areas and unserved groups would have access to library services.

Critics such as Anthony Giddens highlight the place of regional producers of media ( such as Brazil in Latin America ); other critics such as James Curran suggest that State government subsidies have ensured strong local production.

Unable to bring the issue of the partition of Ireland to the UN ( because of Britain's veto on the Security Council ) and because of unwillingness of other Western nations to interfere in what these Western nations saw as British affairs at that time ( the US taking a more ambiguous position ), Aiken ensured that Ireland vigorously defended the rights of small nations such as Tibet and Hungary, nations whose problems he felt Ireland could identify with and had a moral obligation to help.

The strong wind also made matters difficult for the amphibious landings but also ensured the element of surprise as many of the defenders had assumed that no-one would attempt a landing in such poor conditions.

In this era of prosperity and development British architecture embraced many new methods of construction, but ironically in style, such architects as August Pugin ensured it remained firmly in the past.

He ensured roadways were begun, aqueducts were constructed or improved, and that a new mosque was well funded in his capital at Córdoba.

Early travelers in Asia sometimes describe a kind of military amok, in which soldiers facing apparently inevitable defeat suddenly burst into a frenzy of violence which so startled their enemies that it either delivered victory or at least ensured what the soldier in that culture considered an honourable death.

Marlborough skillfully encouraged this apprehension by constructing bridges across the Rhine at Philippsburg, a ruse that not only encouraged Villeroi to come to Tallard's aid in the defence of Alsace, but one that ensured the French plan to march on Vienna remained paralysed by uncertainty.

" Careful planning after 1945 also ensured that demobilisation was carried out without having a negative impact upon economic recovery, and that unemployment stayed at very low levels.

'") ensured that his stay at Princeton would be short.

These ties, together with his ascetic manner and appearance ( a positive advantage to him at the sombre court of Leopold I ), ensured the refugee from the hated French king a warm welcome at Passau, and a position in Imperial service.

A 5 – 1 victory over Croatia at Wembley ensured the team qualified for the final tournament with two games to spare, a feat that had never been achieved before.

Part of this was due to the unpopularity of the King George II in Greece itself, but despite efforts by Greek politicians, British support ensured his retention at the head of the Cairo government.

The defeats at the Battle of Stalingrad and Battle of Kursk ensured the gradual decline of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front.

* A timer ensured that the bomb would not explode until at least fifteen seconds after release, one-quarter of the predicted fall time, to ensure safety of the aircraft.

By boiling the broth beforehand, Pasteur ensured that no microorganisms survived within the broths at the beginning of his experiment.

The G3, the standard service rifle of the Bundeswehr at that time, had a barrel ; at the distances the snipers were required to shoot, a barrel would have ensured far greater accuracy.

He visited the Regiment in England during the war, and always ensured the 1st Battalion had a turkey dinner at Christmas every year they were overseas, including the Christmas of 1944 when the battalion was holding front line positions in the Nijmegen Salient.

Egyptian authorities ensured the loyalty of local chiefs by drafting their children to serve as pages at the pharaoh's court.

While the book was readable enough to sell, its dryness ensured that it was seen as aimed at specialist scientists and could not be dismissed as mere journalism or imaginative fiction.

This measure effectively stopped peasant revolts and ensured greater stability at the expense of freedom of the individual daimyo.

The untranslated initial name is maintained for the Dutch and the German lyrics, that at a later stage ensured reflecting all three official languages of the country.

He had been under pressure to publish in order to qualify for Husserl's chair at University of Freiburg and the success of this work ensured his appointment to the post.

Some other crucial contributions were Robert Christy's realization that implosive compression would facilitate nuclear detonation by significantly increasing the density of the plutonium sphere, Luis Alvarez's development of exploding-bridgewire detonators, which ensured that the explosive lenses would all fire simultaneously, and Bruno Rossi's RaLa experiments, which tested ( without plutonium ) various weapon designs to arrive at one that produced an accurately symmetrical implosion.

Members of Tudor House would then continue to sing the correct second and third verse of the Floreat which Older boys ensured that younger boys knew by heart, often staging impromptu tests at all hours of the day or night, with language students occasionally being required to translate from the Latin to their specialist language.

Through Raeder generally preferred to keep a low-profile, his frequent appearances at veterans ' rallies ensured that from time to time his name made news.