Word: censorable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slashing that American films undergo in foreign countries may somewhat pacify those who grumble whenever the impassioned scenes in French imports are suddenly cut short. Bathing suit sequences that wouldn't make an American Grandma blush are scrapped minutes after they reach the Irish censors' office, and Tarzan has never appeared in Spain without a full suit of clothes. Since nearly 40 percent of Hollywood's profit comes from abroad, the film czars have gathered legions of experts to remove objectionable parts before they leave this country. But it's impossible to out guess foreign whims, and the film companies...
Surprisingly enough, most of the complaints are against "violence and brutality," not the overly spicy episodes. When one movie pictured a man clubbing another over the head with an old water hose the British censors brought out their scissors. "It's an act someone could imitate," they said. A particularly good example is that Cinema scope epic, "King of the Khyber Ribes." In one scene the natives have a rollicking time galloping back and forth as they toss spears into the captive Britishers-no American censor murmured a word of objection. In Europe, however, the "atrocity" found approval for showing...
...ousted "Mr. Imperium" because the king in the movie cavorted with "a common singer." The filming of "David and Bathsheba" seemed to irritate everyone-the Moslems were shocked by David's unsaintly behavior, Egypt sliced out a hot diplomatic exchange between David and the Egyptian ambassador, and Spain's censor worried because the film was based entirely on the Old Testament. The moral standards in India oppose any dance sequences "if there is a shaking," as well as all drinking. In the "Student Prince," for example, a song was dropped only because beer was mentioned. Sometimes a foreign government directly...
...Desires" deals with the dope addiction of a ballerina. Raymond Marr, the Acting State Censor who refused the Sunday license for the film, said yesterday that it had always been the policy of the Sunday Censorship Bureau "to refuse a license to any movie dealing with habit-forming drugs...
Madrid's official Roman Catholic weekly ECCLESIA, the only publication in Spain that escapes government censorship, attacking the new restrictive press law proposed by Franco's Chief Censor GABRIEL ARIAS SALGADO...