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Freaks (also re-released as The Monster Story, [6] Forbidden Love, and Nature's Mistakes [7]) is a 1932 American pre-Code drama horror film produced and directed by Tod Browning, starring Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, and Roscoe Ates.
Freaks: 1 July 1932: 9 May 1963: 12 [8] L'Opéra de quat'sous: 23 August 1932 26 August 1998 PG [9] The Monster Walks: 24 August 1932 9 November 2010 PG [10] Island of Lost Souls: 13 March 1933: 9 July 1958: PG [11] Elysia: 24 April 1934: 10 July 1958: A [12] Le Grand Jeu: 4 September 1934 5 May 2010 PG [13] The Hitch-Hiker: 2 February 1953 30 ...
Banned books are books or other printed works such as essays or plays which have been prohibited by law, or to which free access has been restricted by other means. The practice of banning books is a form of censorship , from political, legal, religious, moral, or commercial motives.
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Banned because of "inflammatory subtitles and Bolshevist Propaganda". The film was exhibited in private showings and in certain localities. Unbanned after the death of Joseph Stalin. [12] [13] [14] 1931 The Miracle Woman: Briefly banned because of its attack on Christian hypocrisy. [15] 1932–1963 Freaks
One extreme example is Freaks (1932), a film so unsettling that it was significantly edited—its original version now lost—and even banned in the UK for 30 years. #14 That Log Truck Driver In ...
When Freaks premiered in 1932, cinema audiences were scandalized by the appearance of sideshow performers. The United Kingdom banned the film for thirty years. The film was a financial failure, and Browning, although he went on to make several more films for MGM, retired in 1940.
What: Actor, author and "Reading Rainbow" founder LeVar Burton joins the L.A. Times Book Club to discuss the State of Banned Books with Times editor Steve Padilla. When: May 24 at 7 p.m. Pacific .