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...have been judged everywhere simply candid. May I recall that noble religious town of Brussels, Belgium, emblem is boy in said circumstances whose statue stands in one of its squares." Taking up the argument, Burstyn charged "a subtle form of sabotage." He pointed out that the cuts demanded by Breen would entail gouging hundreds of more feet out of the picture to have its continuity make sense...
Italy's prizewinning The Bicycle Thief (TIME, Dec. 12), one of the screen's most widely acclaimed films, has been called honest, moving and classic. It remained for sharp-eyed Hollywood Censor Joseph Breen, who administers the industry's production code, to call it indecent and unacceptable for the bulk of U.S. moviegoers. Last week the picture's sponsors were fighting Breen's edict that the movie must be cut before it can go from the art theaters into most U.S. cinemansions...
...Breen demanded two cuts: 1) the shot of the little boy "about to make his toilet against the wall" and 2) all the interior shots of a bordello into which the hero chases the thief...
Hadn't Chambers falsified an application for a passport in 1935, signing the name of David Breen? Chambers admitted that he had. What was Chambers' conception of an oath? "I had a Communist's conception of an oath. That it had no binding force on a Communist." Chambers admitted that as a Communist courier he had been "in fact a traitor." Cross went into his more recent, non-Communist past. Chambers admitted that he had lied when he first told a grand jury that he knew of no espionage activities...
Representing Broadway was Robert Breen's, director of the American National Academy. Breen's approval, Brattle directors feel, will determine how far reliance on a semi-classic theater repertoire pays off in cold cash...