![]() Torn Curtain was one such “morally objectionable” reprobrate (”Hitchcock’s ‘Curtain’,” 2). Several, starting with Secret Agent in 1936, were even stamped with the tsk-tsk-tsk ‘you’d-best-go-to-confession-if-you-see-it’ rating of “B”. “A-II” warning, with most classified “A-III” (Brown, 15). The films of Alfred Hitchcock, himself a Catholic, had long courted The Legion awarded films one of several possible ratings: “A-I” (general patronage) “A-II” (morally unobjectionableįor adults and adolescents) “A-III” (morally unobjectionable forĪdults) “B” (morally objectionable in part or all) and “C” (condemned) Issue viewing guidelines for American Catholics. Motion pictures released in the United States and The function of the Board was to vet the ‘moral values’ of all Which was operative from 1933 to 1980 (Black, 1997). (renamed in 1965 the National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures) One of the biggestĪnd most influential was the Catholic Church’s Legion of Decency ![]() Moral evaluation by both state and religious censorship boards. Ratings system, motion pictures were still subject to In the American film industry’s odd twilight period of the mid-sixties, before the full introduction of the modern MPAA film Did you know that Julie Andrews was chastised for moral impropriety by the Catholic Church? Or at least her 1966 film Torn Curtain was.
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