 The Motion Picture Association of Americas strict production code  in 1946 censored such phrases and words as "nuts to you",  "impotent", "dang", "lousy", and "jerk". But Capra managed to bypass  the production code stipulating that criminals be punished for their  crime: Potter never met justice for stealing the $8,000. Capra noted  several times that he had received more mail about this point than  anything else in the film.