Word: censor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indicating that his previous warnings against sadistic scenes in movies were not being heeded, British Movie Censor Arthur T. L. Watkins blasted British and American producers, announced that in the first seven months of this year 624 cuts were made in 389 movies shown in England, most of them because of excessive cruelty and violence...
...Brattle Theater's victorious Supreme Court suit against the state's Sunday censorship law, which abolished the censor's rulings as unconstitutional, now threatens to aid Boston's dying burlesque entertainment...
Mayor John Hynes of Boston, one of the city's three censor board members, said that he would have to consider whether burlesque licenses could be issued again. "We'll wait until someone applies for one," he added...
Poor Joan-not even the censor can save her. But he can make it legal. Jeff, it suddenly turns out. was only paying a debt of honor when he drove the other widow to her death-and besides, the lady didn't commit suicide after all. She was mur dered by one of Jeff's jealous girl friends. "The past," sighs Joan, as she clings to him, "is buried under a lot of dead years...
...which probably proves that, as far as the Hollywood censor is concerned, you have to make your lie before...