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Banned in Memphis, Nashville, and Atlanta due to the film plot's culture, which a member of the Memphis Board determines the film as "immoral." It was the first picture to be banned after the death of Memphis censor chief Lloyd T. Binford. Binford died at the age of 89 on August 27, 1956, and his death became national headlines.
Blackmail is a criminal act of coercion using a threat. As a criminal offense, blackmail is defined in various ways in common law jurisdictions. In the United States , blackmail is generally defined as a crime of information, involving a threat to do something that would cause a person to suffer embarrassment or financial loss. [ 1 ]
The Pennsylvania General Assembly re-enacted the statute in 1959, but it was struck down again in 1961 by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. [ 2 ] This scene from The Branding Iron (1920) was cut by the Pennsylvania board, which then banned the film for its topic of infidelity.
Banned due to content that would be contrary to public decency and undesirable to public interest. [332] (VHS release was later approved at R16 [333]) 1980, 2006 Cannibal Holocaust: Banned due to its extremely violent content and actual on-screen killings of animals. [334] (also refused release in 2006) 1981–1988 Mad Max
The Spanish Civil War: Hugh Thomas: 1961 Non-fiction Banned by censors of Francoist Spain for its negative depiction of the Nationalist Faction during the Civil War, and its critique of the Franco regime. [258] The Death of Lorca: Ian Gibson: 1971 Biography Banned briefly in Spain. [259]
In 2014, The New York Times reported that "In the decades after World War II, the C.I.A. and other United States agencies employed at least a thousand Nazis as Cold War spies and informants and, as recently as the 1990s, concealed the government's ties to some still living in America, newly disclosed records and interviews show."
Another means was the United States Office of War Information that Roosevelt established in June 1942, whose mandate was to promote understanding of the war policies under the director Elmer Davis. It dealt with posters, press, movies, exhibitions, and produced often slanted material conforming to US wartime purposes. [13]
Victim is a 1961 British neo-noir suspense film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylvia Syms. [2] The first British film to explicitly name homosexuality and deal with it sympathetically, [3] it premiered in the UK on 31 August 1961 and in the US the following February.