Word: censorable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film follows the book as closely as the censor would allow. A friend of Mike's is murdered, and the beer-swilling private eye goes barreling off in all directions after the killer. After 90 minutes of mashing the ladies and bashing the men, Mike ends up in the arms of the most gorgeous psychoanalyst (Peggie Castle) who ever used a couch after office hours...
...freedom to read," said the declaration, "is essential to our democracy. It is under attack. Private groups and public authorities in various parts of the country are working to remove books from sale, to censor textbooks, to label 'controversial' books, to distribute lists of 'objectionable' books or authors, and to purge libraries...
...letter to pastors of churches in his archdiocese, denounced the picture as "an occasion of sin" and as violating "standards of morality and decency." Cardinal Spellman urged Catholics to boycott it when it opens at two Manhattan theaters on July 9. The movie industry's self-censoring agency-the Production Code Administration-has refused it a seal of approval, which has made it difficult in the past for a picture to play the large theater circuits.* On the other hand, the movie has been approved by the National Board of Review and four (New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Massachusetts...
...palace approval, there had been none; the Lord Chamberlain, as official censor, simply had found the revue fit for public view without considering its political content. As for South Africa's protests, the revue's producer said Don't Malign Malan would definitely stay on the program. Stops the show almost every night, he added...
With the feature at the Brattle is an excellent short on Moroccan dances which somehow escaped the eye of the Boston Censor...