In 1979 I got my first job and moved 400 miles away from my mom. Got home from work at 4:15 and in my apartment mailbox was a letter from mom. On my doorstep was the daily newspaper. Opened Mom's letter. She had included a clipping from the weekly Catholic paper listing condemned movies. At the top was 'Life of Brian'. Newspaper theater listings showed a bargain matinee at 4:45. Got to the theater, crossed line of protesters, and enjoyed one of the best movies ever made.
@penguinvic9892
17 күн бұрын
I couldn’t see what the fuss was about. It was a somewhat uneven movie but it did have some memorable scenes and quotes, as in … “What have the Romans ever done for us …?”
@lyleswanson7557
15 күн бұрын
I had a friend who didn't like The Life of Brian because he thought it was too religious.
@aclark903
10 күн бұрын
One of the best??? It’s not even the best Python film. That would be Holy Grail.
@rongendron8705
9 күн бұрын
I was Terry Gilliam's 'bunkmate' in Army Basic training in 1964, before he left for England ca. 1968-69 & helping to start "Monty Python's Flying Circus"! Even in '64, when he was 23 & I was 17, I knew that his artistic talent would let him go far in life!
@dorothyjohnson6743
9 күн бұрын
@peyes, it was very on topic. nguinvic9892
@KatieB33
22 күн бұрын
It’s hilarious how tame they are in comparison to what has been seen on television since.
@oppressednolonger1497
9 күн бұрын
perhaps Legion of Decency had a point then.
@waynechapman9823
4 күн бұрын
I'd say "Pink Flamingos" still holds up as an example of transgressive cinema. Of course, it was meant to be disgusting and provocative, so it's interesting that it's now considered to be a classic and that John Waters is a mainstream cultural icon.
@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633
4 күн бұрын
OK, but I think it's gone too far. I think all this violence is damaging to the soul.
@unbreakable7633
7 күн бұрын
I was raised a Catholic and my father took the condemned movie list as recommendations of movies to see. Same with condemned books. Life of Brian was one of his favorite films. And Some Like It Hot too.
@stephenbonaduce7852
6 күн бұрын
@unbreakable7633, that's a great Dad!
@unbreakable7633
5 күн бұрын
@@stephenbonaduce7852 Thanks. He was a very interesting fellow indeed. Great sense of humor, spoke or read 6 languages (and English). Taught school for decades. Served in the US Navy in WW2 on the USS Hornet (CV 12). We used to watch movies together. I got his movie collection when he passed.
@gregcorwin8316
15 күн бұрын
When I was a kid, my mother would make me call the legion of decency phone number and then tell her what they said about the movie that I wanted to watch. She used that rating to decide if I could go see the movie or not. I wasn't really very good at relaying what they said to what she heard from me.
@EKA201-j7f
20 күн бұрын
Some people use the Catholic Church's banned lists as a go-to list.
@penguinvic9892
17 күн бұрын
You can see some high quality and interesting movies from that list. Ditto for books 📚, too !!
@dr.jamesolack8504
8 күн бұрын
The Catholic Church…..biggest scam to ever come down the pike!!
@louiscolborn6715
4 күн бұрын
Catholic Church should be banned
@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633
4 күн бұрын
@@penguinvic9892 For example Kazantzakis Christ Recrucified, The Last Temptation of Christ.
@oppressednolonger1497
3 күн бұрын
I hope they are still doing that
@BDot-dv7lq
7 күн бұрын
Saw the Exorcist when I was 14. Almost couldn't sleep at all that night but I felt better about myself after hearing how my 18yr old cousin had to sleep in her parents bed for 3 nights. The absolute scariest movie ever for Christians.
@bb21again.67
16 күн бұрын
In New Zealand we had the Indecent Publications "Tribunal" who as a child of 10 years old I presumed was an official government body only to find out a few years later that the "tribunal" was one sanctimonious ex-nun who took it upon herself to decide what the country could see or read.😮😢.
@John-jd7mm
14 күн бұрын
We Americans have had our share of kooks.
@dr.jamesolack8504
8 күн бұрын
@@John-jd7mm The biggest kook is living in Mar-a-Lago, FL.
@TheUluxian
6 күн бұрын
We had Mary Whitehouse in the U.K...
@Robert.Chauval
3 күн бұрын
@@bb21again.67 and no one remembers her name here in NZ
@jimkelly4214
3 күн бұрын
@@dr.jamesolack8504Biden moved to Mar-a-Lago?
@jimwalshonline9346
18 күн бұрын
"The Pawnbroker"? Scandalous...how DARE they portray Jewish folks in a sympathetic light (you know damn well that was the real reason)...
@mgconlan
14 күн бұрын
Actually, in 1966 the Legion of Decency changed its name to the "National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures." And Howard Hughes did NOT design a special bra for Jane Russell to wear in "The Outlaw." My source for that is Jane Russell herself, who appeared in San Francisco to promote a 1978 reissue of the film. She said that Hughes had not designed a bra for her, and she added, "And if he had, I wouldn't have worn it."
@dr.jamesolack8504
8 күн бұрын
You’re right. He didn’t actually sit down at a drafting table and sketch out a design. But he DID make recommendations as to how it should look.
@Johnnycdrums
9 сағат бұрын
@@dr.jamesolack8504 ; Well somebody had to get in there and take those conical measurements. Probably some unknown genius from Grumman with a slide rule, pencil, and paper..
@tecumsehcristero
7 күн бұрын
The Exorcist got more people to return to church than any Jesus movie
@DianneRoberts722
6 күн бұрын
My mom thinks it did the opposite for some reason--that it sent the wrong message.
@oppressednolonger1497
3 күн бұрын
look whats happening to society when the moral purveyors are ignored and dismissed. starting to sound like those who advocate for smutty films actually enjoy living in actual hell on earth. interesting.
@CybeleCotter
6 күн бұрын
Of course, there was a MASH episode on tv where Hawkeye procures a copy of The Moon is Blue, anticipating a very racy film, and then being horribly disappointed at how tame it was
@TheUluxian
6 күн бұрын
Father Mulcahey: "Well Hawkeye, they did use the word "virgin" Hawkeye: "That's because everybody was one!" I loved those episodes where everyone traded a favor for a favor for a favor to get what they wanted..
@oppressednolonger1497
3 күн бұрын
thats because hawkeye was a degenerate from a slimy tribe.
@mrwookie72
20 күн бұрын
I was a teen in the 80's when the "video nasties" list happened guess which films suddenly appeared at the top of my must see list. Banning things never ever works ,it just drives them underground.
@Fez4ever
21 күн бұрын
It should be noted that it was NOT the Legion of Decency. It was the CATHOLIC Legion of Decency. There was also the Hays Code that was still in effect at the time.
@greggi47
19 күн бұрын
The list was published in a paper called Our Sunday Visitor. I was working as a reference librarian when I became acquainted with the List. One man called regularly to check on films his daughters wanted to see.
@daplace902
19 күн бұрын
I remember at a very young age ,my whole family was Catholic Until -one & all -lapsed. But I remember at church ,the newsletter devoted to Movies & their ratings. What a joke. There was also (I think annually) a folder handed showing what EACH & every family gave that year. Of course shaming families who couldn't give much ! I remember my Mom & Dad discussing how rotten they thought that was. Indeed
@dr.jamesolack8504
8 күн бұрын
My parents pulled me out of the Catholic Church after 6th grade. The nuns told them ‘your son asks too many questions.’ This was in 1964. That was the best present my mom and dad ever gave me!!
@kenchristie9214
2 күн бұрын
Crime does not pay was an edict of the Hayes Office and gangster had to be portrayed as ignorant and uneducated. It spawned the double negative. I didn't do nothin', I didn't go nowhere' and I don't know nothin' are now a in everyday use. The sheer stupidity of the Hayes codes was that a man and woman could not share a double bed, but it had no problem with two men sharing a double bed.
@leonardkrol2600
14 күн бұрын
I am surprised that the Exorcist is on this list. It is the best endorsement for the Catholic church. Satin has taken control of your child? Send a priest in and he will drive out the devil. The summer after it came out I started at a secular university. When other students found out I was Catholic, they wanted to know more about the faith. The exorcist made it look like being a Roman Catholic was the awesome thing to be!
@dr.jamesolack8504
8 күн бұрын
Hey Leonard…..you misspelled *Satan. Shame on you.
@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633
4 күн бұрын
Satan
@henrykujawa4427
15 күн бұрын
GREAT video! What surprises me is how many of these I've never seen-- and some, never even heard of! But it makes me want to check them out.
@leonfairhurst7597
19 күн бұрын
When you say the Church, you mean USA, Europe was a lot different
@tomflorio3639
18 күн бұрын
If "Cinema Paradiso" is any indication, they weren't all that different. If you haven't seen it, you should - it's a wonderful film! And if you have, well, then, you already know. 🙂
@UncleVegetable
17 күн бұрын
I’m pretty sure this was from a catholic “newspaper.”
@LarryJames-w9x
14 күн бұрын
Back in the 1950s and 1960s my crazy mother, who was Catholic, used to subscribe to their newspaper, the Catholic transcript. It had a article on the movies. This is where they let it be known which movies a Catholic shouldn’t see. That’s how they communicated this to their followers. Movies, in my opinion weren’t the problem. People in the suburbs were casting off the rules, restrictions, and morals of the past. At least this is what sociologists said!
@laikapupkino1767
20 күн бұрын
I remember Christians of all sorts were quite up in arms about Scorsese's LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST for suggesting that Jesus might have wanted to get laid at some point. The film wasn't even anti-religious, just extrapolating on what preachers say about Jesus being fully human as well as being God; and pointing out that if he didn't have all the normal human needs he would've just been play acting when he came down to redeem us with his death + resurrection. But they blew a gasket over this "blasphemy", most of them without even having watched it; of course.
@greggi47
19 күн бұрын
Last Temptation puts all the pseudo-religious Hollywood Jeus films way out in the fields. They were uniformly smarmy and pretentious. Last Temptation is honest. Of course, everything in the genre pales next to Mel Gibsons ponderous S&M snuff film The Passion of the Christ.
@michaelpalmieri7335
15 күн бұрын
@@greggi47 *Jesus
@greggi47
14 күн бұрын
@@michaelpalmieri7335 Thanks. I didn't proof properly, and autocorrect didn't catch that,
@dr.jamesolack8504
8 күн бұрын
@@greggi47 Try the ‘edit’ function and be done with it.
@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633
4 күн бұрын
Great film made from a great book.
@Bayan1905
19 күн бұрын
Ahh the church. I remember growing up in the 80's and watching the church going after anything they thought indecent, satanic, etc. I remember being 8-9 years old when the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon came out, the reaction to it, and my mother, who was a Catholic zealot at the time, freaked out when she saw me watching it and dragged me to the local church for Confession and I was never to ever watch it again. Then in the late 80's and early 90's the whole thing switched of course to rock and roll music. I remember the local church having parents take their kids records and tapes and throwing them in a metal garbage can or just in a pile and burning them on the spot. None of these people ever realized, they were having the opposite effect and only drawing in more people to watch, more people to listen to the music, etc. And as a historian, the church has no moral standing themselves given some of the things they've done over the years, for instance, the Malleus Maleficarum, otherwise known as the Witches Hammer, which told Priests not only how to identify witches but how to torture them as well.
@michaelpalmieri7335
15 күн бұрын
Let's not forget about the Spanish Inquisition, the condoning of slavery and imperialism, preaching hatred of non-Catholic religions, like Judaism and Protestantism, not to mention the pedophile priests.
@artmarquette5767
17 күн бұрын
Yep... movies sure have gotten (better?) ..now I can turn on netflix and find absolutely nothing worth watching. Ghay krap or dumbasse horror flicks. Hollyweird...GFY
@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633
4 күн бұрын
I agree. I watch old movies instead now. They were much better in the 30's, 40's, 50's even 60's and 70's. Now they're really shitty.
@rlevitta
22 күн бұрын
"The" church? I'm assuming you mean "the Catholic Church," one of many churches - not that I care what any of them say about movies or anything else.
@dorothyjohnson6743
9 күн бұрын
Agreed
@dr.jamesolack8504
8 күн бұрын
ALL churches are scams.
@jimwalshonline9346
19 күн бұрын
I remember the legion condemning "A Clockwork Orange"; yet, one of the most glowing reviews I read of the flick was written by a priest!
@greggi47
18 күн бұрын
I am guessing the reviewer was a Jesuit.
@jimwalshonline9346
18 күн бұрын
@@greggi47 I believe he was.
@greggi47
18 күн бұрын
@@jimwalshonline9346 Jesuits are often cool.
@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633
4 күн бұрын
@@greggi47 They're among the most intelligent.
@sterlinglewis5700
8 күн бұрын
Most of these films are classics, but a notable omission is Ingmar Bergman. I had the misfortune to be born into a Roman Catholic family, yet I grew up with the attitude "Die Gedanken sind frei" - "my thoughts are free". Every year at Mass we were supposed to take an 'oath' that we would watch no condemned movie, under the penalty of 'sin'. I stood there with my arms across my chest, refusing to say the words. I HATED being told what I must believe, or what I should worship. My mother threw a fit when she found out I was seeing condemned films, and my favorite Bergman scripts had been especially excoriated. In the course of a bitter confrontation, I challenged her, and took her to see a double bill of "The Seventh Seal" and "Wild Strawberries". The latter film had her in tears, and she dropped the whole subject thereafter. To her credit. Most people do not understand that the Roman Church is basically anti-sex, and think it is horrible unless it is done for the strict and only purpose of conceiving a child. No pleasure involved, just duty. I walked away from the whole sorry edifice in my late teens - another fight with mom - but she couldn't sway me - I was DONE.
@pnutbutrncrackers
Күн бұрын
Ingmar Bergman gets my vote for the most overrated film director of all-time.
@sterlinglewis5700
18 сағат бұрын
@@pnutbutrncrackers Out of curiosity, which films of his have you seen?
@pnutbutrncrackers
18 сағат бұрын
@@sterlinglewis5700 Sure, and just for fun I'll try to rank them (for me), ok? - Wild Strawberries (definitely my favorite) - Through a Glass Darkly (definitely 2nd) - The Seventh Seal (great imagery, but ...) - Winter Light (expected much more) - Persona (off-putting and not profound) - Fanny and Alexander (putridly off-putting) Watched all of these in their entirety.I may have watched a bit of Autumn Sonata too, but won't count it. Cheers, and God bless!
@WattisWatts
18 күн бұрын
I think The Excor.cist was rated A4 by the Church. Suitable for adults _ With reservations.
@michaelrochester48
21 күн бұрын
The mall where Dawn of the dead was filmed was in Monroeville, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh, where coincidentally across the street a huge comic con occurs about three times a year
@greggi47
19 күн бұрын
A friend told me that she saw Dawn of the Dead at a mall cinema, It was late when she left the theater. The mall seemed abandoned. And when she went to the parking lot hers was one of the few left there, way off in the distance. Some of the lights in the lot were dark, so there were big patches of blackness. It was a memorable night.
@UncleVegetable
17 күн бұрын
I’ll bet it’s abandoned now.
@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633
4 күн бұрын
@@greggi47 I think I would have gone home without the car.
@rosschannells5407
14 күн бұрын
Once Censorship was over the top. ... Now 😮 NON-EXISTENCE. 😮
@wadeheaton123
11 күн бұрын
Here's a little help pronunciating Italian.. C is pronounced Ch. Mar-CHel-oh. La Dole- CHEh Vita. Spue is sp-iu.
@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633
4 күн бұрын
pronouncing
@benderbendingrodriguez420
16 күн бұрын
20s-60s: moral panic 70s: satanic panic 80s: dungeons & dragons 90s/2000s: video games create killers People/organizations will always get made about something
@michaelpalmieri7335
15 күн бұрын
*mad
@Skatakephalos7434
8 күн бұрын
...and down and down our society fell.
@CaptGage
8 күн бұрын
Right on, baby! Before Soap debuted on ABC in 1978, I heard all kinds of moral groups on the radio boycotting that show. My dad understandably got mad at them.
@TheUluxian
6 күн бұрын
@@Skatakephalos7434 Rome fell not because of declining morals, but because of the rise of Christianity..
@aisforapple2494
7 күн бұрын
Talking about having a woman pretending to be your wife in 'Kiss Me, Stupid' made me think of the short-lived 60s sitcom, 'Occasional Wife', about a young executive whose company likes to promote married men over the single man and the main character gets his attractive female upstairs neighbor to pretend to be his wife whenever the boss comes over. Have you ever done an episode on this forgotten TV show?
@Robert.Chauval
4 күн бұрын
A list of movies condemned by the church... commonly known as "The Must Watch List"
@alexalex13131
20 күн бұрын
Some Like It Hot was an extremely good comedy. The Pawnbroker was simply great.
@alanbear6505
9 күн бұрын
Groups like the Legion never catch on that they end up encouraging people to see the films. The Moral Majority called for a ban on Monty Python’s The Life of Brian. That boosted interest so much that when most of the Monty Python cast filmed The Secret Policemen’ Other Ball (a fundraiser for Amnesty International) they requested the MM to ban that as well.
@alg11297
20 күн бұрын
Forever Amber (book and movie) A Farewell to Arms (book and movies), The Last Temptation of Christ, The Graduate. AND, the Sign of the Cross that actually activated the Code.
@clarencewalker3925
20 күн бұрын
And "Baby Face", "Red-Headed Woman", "Scarface", etc.
@michaelchevreaux7780
6 күн бұрын
@@clarencewalker3925 Remake Of Original Version Of Scarface, With Al Pachino As Tony Montana, Almost Got An X-Rating.
@mrwookie72
20 күн бұрын
"Good clean Catholic guilt" 😂😂😂😂😂
@phred196
21 күн бұрын
Okay you're not being accurate at all here. In 1920 they banned alcohol. This was the temperance movement. And the ban was called prohibition. Hollywood got together and recognized that if people banned evil alcohol then a ban on Evil movies was not out of the question. So something should be done preemptively. And they came up with the Hays Commission. This commission had some members of some Churches in it but this was not created by the church. It was created by Hollywood with the hopes that if they did this people would be comfortable that they were self-regulating and they would not stop movie making all together like they did with alcohol. And it worked. The Hayes commission was accepted. Everybody was going to be moral. And movie making continued. The Hays commission wrapped up in 1968, three decades after its Inception and 5 years before the exorcist. By this point the motion picture industry recognized that the risk of a Prohibition style ban on movies was gone. Prohibition of alcohol ended in the 1930s at about the same time that the Hays commission was brought into being. And while there have always been individual elements of various churches that complained about various movies, it's pretty rare that a blanket statement gets issued by anyone. And to my knowledge no organized religion has banned any films
@doraran2138
18 күн бұрын
You need to do much more home work on Prohibition. It went in in 1919 about the time women were given right to vote (Suffrage Movement) the two were closely related. The latter part of 19th Century saw significant exploitation of workers, that in many cases resulted in rampant alcoholism among these exploited men and tremendous hardships on their women, who saw the object, alcohol as the problem, not realizing that it was a symptom. Into that, in most parts of country women could not vote. Women organized to outlaw alcohol and also get the right to vote as they rightly reasoned, was necessary get control on their issues. Into this a bizarre ally, the petroleum industry, great supporters of outlawing alcohol, which at that time, was a competing fuel, so simple to produce, farmers could grow, ferment and distill for their energy needs-self sufficiency. With small modification, the Model T could readily burn alcohol as a fuel. Agricultural distillation equipment readily available up until 1919. The rest is well known about the failed "noble experiment" as itwas called.
@Robert.Chauval
4 күн бұрын
"The Legion of Decency" otherwise known as .. "Prudes in Public, Perverts in Private"
@txbluesguy
9 күн бұрын
The Pawnbroker is a fantastic film. I read the book with my dad and watched the movie.
@TheUluxian
6 күн бұрын
In 1982, the UK prosecuted and banned the movie "The Driller Killer" on recommendation of the Director of Public Prosecutions, as one of the infamous "Video Nasties." No one had ever reviewed the movie. It was banned over a magazine advertisement that was a photo taken of the box cover art, depicting a man being drilled through the forehead, ...a scene that isn't even in the film.
@wangobadankas4038
19 күн бұрын
My best friend's mom would always check The Tidings before allowing him to go to the show with us. He said she didn't want him to see naked horses or bottomless Porky Pig.
@robertc8110
14 күн бұрын
If these movies are condemned by the church, these are the ones to see.
@kennethrouse7942
4 күн бұрын
I remember as a young teenager the hullabaloo when TV dared to show the condemned film "Anatomy of a Murder."
@brittakriep2938
19 күн бұрын
In early 1950s Germany ( 1951/52) there was in Westgermany a movie ,Die Sünderin ' which caused troubles with christian circles. For three seconds (!) a painters model was seen nude. There is a photo showing a riotpoliceman ( Bereitschaftspolizist) with coat/ wwll syle helmet and baton standing at a cinema entrance.
@TerrySlaven-zd3um
11 күн бұрын
Spoiler alert! He's gonna do useless narration through the whole thing.
@dannyguillory8941
19 күн бұрын
It's interesting that so many of the films were done post WWII, but not surprising, in that people were exploring those themes of existentialism: what does it mean to be human and living in this world? And I could go on and on, because all our present, and past, and very distant past experiences in human society are not very different.
@sandrasanders706
6 күн бұрын
If members of the Legion of Deceny were around in the last 50 years, defibulator companies would be out of business😮😮😮😮
@GenXfrom75
13 күн бұрын
These are so mild by modern standards… in most cases, laughably so. Are we better or worse off for it? 🤷♀️
@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633
4 күн бұрын
I think we're worse. The violence and gore has gone too far. Degrading.
@angryanne
19 күн бұрын
Mum didn’t like is to listen to the rock and roll station on the radio either.
@pithicus52
9 күн бұрын
When I was growing up in the 1950/60s, the local theater showed a double feature Friday evenings. The one movie I remember not being allowed to see because it was on the condemned list was Gypsy, a biopic about the stripper Gypsy Rose Lee.
@oldschool1993
3 күн бұрын
"Dawn of the Dead"- Looks like malls today "Divine" Looks like an elementary teachers conference today.
@Rkenton48
17 күн бұрын
So THAT'S where the 'Baby-Doll' got its name! Thanks!
@geneobrien8907
19 күн бұрын
After Sunday mass, they'd sell a paper called, The Tablet for .10 cents. In that paper, the Legon of Decency listed current movies and categorized them for objectional content. My mother being a staunch Catholic would use the Legon to determine whether or not I could see certain movies. West Side Story, nope...Children of the Dammed, nope... Mademoiselle Striptease, hell no! Both West Side Story and Children of the Dammed were categorized as "Morally Objectionable In Part For All", I was 12 and wanted to see those two movies, all of my friends saw them but nooooo, the Catholic church deemed them to be bad for my soul!
@penguinvic9892
17 күн бұрын
Just what I need … a whole bunch of people telling me what I should see or read … 😑 / 🙄
@geneobrien8907
17 күн бұрын
@@penguinvic9892 Oh, they want to control much more than that!
@daffyduk77
15 күн бұрын
The Pawnbroker - a great film
@johnhoie-hj7cg
2 күн бұрын
“Searing” is a good word for the Pawnbroker, the most difficult movie I ever saw. But it’s the opposite of indecent.
@steves3422
22 күн бұрын
Yes, as a Catholic boy in the 60s, used the banned movie list as my 'go to' list -- Hayley Mills in the Family Way -- skipped out of HS (freshman) for that one -- married sex issues and Hayley in a bathtub -- learned more in that 90min then from Sister Mary Helen in 4 years.
@bwtv147
19 күн бұрын
More than any other person Brigitte Bardot was responsible for the end of the Motion Picture Production Code. In the 1950s and 1960s TV ownership became common and severely cut into the movie theater business. Theater owners saw people lining up at the "art houses" for Bardot movies and wanted in on the action.
@bullettube9863
13 күн бұрын
The "Pawn Broker" is a must see movie for everyone even today! The legion of decency was I believe, created by the catholic church to destroy Holly Wood, but only succeeded in driving people to theaters!
@RaymondSwanson-u9y
20 күн бұрын
That condemnation wasn't very effective since people saw those movies. We can still watch them. So where's the controversy?
@drbluzer
9 сағат бұрын
Not included here is "I AM CURIOUS ( YELLOW )" ( 1967 ) , a Swedish film that explores a young Swedish woman's sexuality . This film was released in the U.S. in 1969 and caused quite a bit of controversy at the time .
@pnutbutrncrackers
Күн бұрын
This video made me admire the Legion of Decency.👏
@GaryAa56
21 күн бұрын
I saw The Pawn broker when I was Nine years old in the movie theater. My Mother tried to cover my eyes at a certain scene without success.
@greggi47
19 күн бұрын
I saw the film when it first came out. I might be misremembering, but there is a scene where Rod Steiger's character has a meeting with the mobster who uses his shop aa a money-laundering front. It is clear that the criminal is gay and has a fem boy at hand. I think that brief scene would have upended the censors as much as anything.
@GaryAa56
19 күн бұрын
@@greggi47 You're absolutely correct. Brock Peters played the part of the monster who was laundering money though the Pawn shop. His body guard did seem as you said, a bit Gay. It's an excellent story.
@willemvandeursen3105
18 күн бұрын
LOL. I saw John Huston's 'The Bible'. The scene where you see Adam being created, rising from earth, and... standing up. Nekkid! I heard adults in the auditorium gasping and hands being clasped over horrified eyes! If they had known this cinematic moment would make me gay for life, I would have landed in a Juvenile Correction center! This happened in a cinema in Salem. Which the next day burned down to the ground.
@Expedient_Mensch
5 күн бұрын
How can you have a list like this without including Monty Pythons Life of Brian? The Church didn't just ban it, they freaked out over it.
@mousemd
9 күн бұрын
You would think that after a few films successes that the church would stop. Some people will watch the film just to see what the fuss is about
@MsStellaBoy
20 күн бұрын
No films involving young children were condemned? Hmm, gee, can’t imagine why.
@molarmama32
19 күн бұрын
Films which showed danger to children were never made. Get over yourself.
@ianl1052
19 күн бұрын
Including a 1978 movie which I commented on but it looks like it was too risqué for KZitem. I have a feeling my post is in the process of being deleted by the almighty algorithm. Edit: Yep, just gone back and my post has indeed been deleted...clearly just for mentioning the title. I did not describe the subject matter nor did I describe some of the scenes in this movie which you can still buy on Amazon.
@ianl1052
19 күн бұрын
@@molarmama32 Read up on a certain 1978 movie starring Brooke Shields.
@molarmama32
18 күн бұрын
@@ianl1052 Recheck your history.
@penguinvic9892
17 күн бұрын
The church got excited about I_olitа, both the book 📕 and the movie 🎥.
@bwtv147
19 күн бұрын
I remember the M*A*S*H episode about the unit all excited about getting "The Moon Is Blue" and then seeing that all the cast remained fully clothed and did nothing sexy at all.
@josephpetrino1741
4 күн бұрын
"The Pawnbroker"? They actually condemned that? How narrow minded can you get?
@LovingShadow-e3k
4 күн бұрын
Honestly, I would have been shocked if Pink Flamingos and John Waters wasn't on this list.
@gogoyubari366
14 күн бұрын
The Exorcist is a masterpiece!
@ussstropicana
2 күн бұрын
Today, this "legion" would have a full time job at ALL the movies...
@jaimehudson7623
14 күн бұрын
Like banned books, you condemn a movie, and you just made the film promoters salivate with glee... Selling it for Free!
@Johnnycdrums
9 сағат бұрын
"The Pawn Broker" is sick. Almost as depraved as "Last House On The Left" and or, "I Spit On Your Grave."
@marymitchell8625
16 күн бұрын
The Miracle from 1948? Anna Magnani, Federico Fellini? Still provocative, and a very direct attack on Christians who are cruel to ofhers in tbe name of religion.
@garyreid2178
20 күн бұрын
Baby Doll is classic. I remember watching it on Turner Classic Movies a few years ago. I was so surprised how often the n-word was used. I guess Tennessee Williams, like Mark Twain, used the language to shock both northerners and shame southerners. La Dolce Vita. I remember after watching this movie and became wary of the main theme of the film. The sweet life, to those on the outside looking in, is not at all sweet to those living that life. That’s what Marcello Mastroianni’s character finds out in the end. …And God Created Woman. That was my first time watching Brigette Bardot. Her character was too hot to handle in more ways than one. Some Like It Hot. It was just a funny movie with a funny ending. The Exorcist. This movie was an assault on the senses and the battle between good and evil was waged for the soul of Regan MacNeil. I had read the book. I thought it was more of a complicated mystery than a horror story because of the character of Detective William F. Kinderman and Father Damian Karras’ joint investigation. The Legion of Decency had its place. Sure, kids under 17 shouldn’t watch these movies when they came out. These movies are not for everyone. But, it is good to know that these films and others are available for any cinephile’s viewing exploitation because the various themes, performances and cinematography are ahead of their time.
@michaelpalmieri7335
15 күн бұрын
I thought "Some Like It Hot" was very funny too. It may have been a little sexually risque to some people (especially the church), but compared to a lot of modern day movies with sexual themes, it now seems pretty tame. Maybe one of the reasons the Legion of Decency disliked it was because of the possible suggestion of homosexuality in the film's climax. As one may recall, Jack Lemmon's character, still disguised as a woman, finds himself/herself the object of Joe E. Brown's character's affection, and tries using all sorts of reasons why he should break off the romance with him/her ("I smoke," "I've fooled around with other men," "I can never have children," etc), but none of them seem to faze Joe. Finally, a frustrated Jack just whips off his wig and says "I'm a MAN!" "Oh well," Joe replies, "nobody's perfect." (The film's last line.) That line seems to imply that Joe doesn't care if his new "lover" is a man or a woman. Is it possible that he's GAY, or perhaps BISEXUAL?
@garyreid2178
15 күн бұрын
@@michaelpalmieri7335 That last line was classic.
@MileyonDisney
3 күн бұрын
I still can't get over cute, sweet Linda Blair dating Rick James!
@roberttelarket4934
21 күн бұрын
Female Trouble/Pink Flamingos are both one of the three greatest movies of all times!!!
@GaryAa56
21 күн бұрын
Eggs, Babs, Eggs!
@roberttelarket4934
21 күн бұрын
@@GaryAa56: I saw Edith in Venice Ca in the 1980's at a fair for her I think(can't remember). I saw Divine in a theater on Hollywood Blvd.(in Hollywood Ca) for her special called Jungle Fever in the early 1980's. The world had never seen and will not ever again anything like it!!!!!
@michaelpalmieri7335
15 күн бұрын
Well, if you call a film that shows someone eating s**t "GREAT"?
@roberttelarket4934
15 күн бұрын
@@michaelpalmieri7335: Yes what’s the big deal?! Further can't you write out shit? What the hell are you afraid of?
@dr.jamesolack8504
8 күн бұрын
@@roberttelarket4934 You and Michael need to calm down or I’ll have to make you both stand in a corner!!😉
@67daltonknox
Күн бұрын
That sounds like a good reason to watch a film: condemned by the church.
@AtomicBurnsauce
20 күн бұрын
Careful now! Down with this sort of thing!
@drbluzer
9 сағат бұрын
Condemning movies makes people so curious that they want to see it and therefore promotes a reverse effect . Much like DJ's forbidden by the FCC in the 1960's and 1970's to not play certain songs simply drove people to buy the record and listen to it themselves .
@milascave2
7 күн бұрын
I saw The exorcist, Pink Flamingos, Le Dolce Vita, Dawn of the dead, and Life of Brian. Also, "The last temptation of Christ." But. Clearly I have a lot of viewing to catch up with.
@michaelmcgee8543
5 күн бұрын
I wonder how the Legion of Decency felt about the German version of the moon is Blue which was simultaneously shot?
@EndingSimple
3 күн бұрын
They may have had a point about Pink Flamingos. Censorship has always had a weak spot. The members of a censorship broad always got degraded by all they had been exposed to that they eventually started letting things through that they would not have let through before they were on the censorship board. The desensitization of repeated exposure was what the Legion was trying to fend off. In ancient Rome, after all, actual mass murder was once family entertainment. The gladiatorial games had food and drink vendors hawking their wares while the butchery was going on.
@theobserver9131
10 күн бұрын
No greater endorsement than the Churches condemnation. You'd think producers might even pay for the honor.......
@ronm6585
22 күн бұрын
Thanks Rich.
@dougmiller7258
17 күн бұрын
I’m sure there were a lot worse than these.
@williammccallum1550
5 күн бұрын
The majority of Americans don't give a crap what this church thinks.
@tomlerch9190
11 күн бұрын
This list was my must see list.
@DavidUrban-y3c
7 күн бұрын
I'm a born.again Christian, but there are certain horror movies can get into, and the original Dawn of the Dead is one of them. The Exorcist on the other hand not so much. If its too stupid or satanic I just can't or wont get into them. I didn't think The Moon is Blue was a real movie. I thought that it was invented for M*A*S*H. Ive got to check it out. Ok I'm done. Have a blessed day everyone
@DianneRoberts722
6 күн бұрын
same here
@DianneRoberts722
6 күн бұрын
✝
@idraconisny2217
2 күн бұрын
Well you watch war movie were people blown up, westerns with shoot outs, cop dramas were folks get killed and of course horror and zombie flix. Show a little skin and the church loses it.
9 күн бұрын
You miss out on mentioning the complete condemnation of homosexuality. It has taken decades for mainstream films to give audiences ( often badly ) sexuality that the church still condemns, especially between men who also by the way have ' curves. '
@adamf663
8 күн бұрын
I'm surprised Life of Brian didn't make the list.
@ingridfong-daley5899
6 күн бұрын
The Catholic church boycotted it, but he didn't put it on this particular list.
@amadeusamwater
9 күн бұрын
I wonder what that group would have thought of the French made films from the same era, films that seemed to have passed Catholic Church muster over there.
@catman8965
6 күн бұрын
The statue in the Exorcist is of BES a protector of children.
@seabertotter4325
5 күн бұрын
Tax the churches that play politics.
@frankthewriter5937
14 күн бұрын
Thank God that church no longer has any power 😂😂😂
@carmelolamantia3721
9 күн бұрын
The Exorcist is a how to manual for demonic possession?? How exactly? lol
@ilenegallo6406
9 күн бұрын
I chose my movies from the list of condemned movie.
@Oenloveslife
3 күн бұрын
"...spood by a possessed child" 😂
@57RickH
22 күн бұрын
I'm surprised The Omen didn't make the list. I seem to recall hearing a quote at the time that The Omen demonstrates how the devil operates (or something along those lines)
@julienielsen3746
4 күн бұрын
Never seen The Exorcist, and never will. Looks disgusting. Never seen any of these. And some I've never even heard of. I wouldn't waste my time watching them.
@roseymalino9855
2 күн бұрын
You sure they were rated CONDEMNED and not CRAP.
@michaelmcgee8543
5 күн бұрын
We saw the exorcist in 1973 i went to see it with my mom I had to pay an adult price.
@milascave2
7 күн бұрын
It. sounds like the League of decencies main function was to provide advertising for ground breaking new films.
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