1 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:09,580 You want entertainment? 2 00:00:10,820 --> 00:00:13,640 Wholesome, interesting, and vital? 3 00:00:14,700 --> 00:00:19,600 This, the motion picture industry, is pledged to provide. 4 00:00:20,080 --> 00:00:22,800 What would you do if you did go to Hollywood? 5 00:00:24,060 --> 00:00:26,820 Fornicating. That's what I call disgusting. 6 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:28,600 What the hell's the matter with him? 7 00:00:28,860 --> 00:00:32,020 He was gay, and I thought I fell in love with a man. 8 00:00:34,310 --> 00:00:37,750 A steady stream of sturdy stuff. 9 00:00:38,390 --> 00:00:39,950 You mind it? There's more, darling. 10 00:00:40,710 --> 00:00:42,130 Don't say any word. 11 00:00:42,370 --> 00:00:43,550 You're just a little tramp. 12 00:00:43,790 --> 00:00:45,790 You used to be sweet and clean. 13 00:00:46,150 --> 00:00:47,770 She's wicked, but I love her. 14 00:00:48,010 --> 00:00:50,450 Would you be dark if I put on something more comfortable? 15 00:00:52,670 --> 00:00:54,190 You want to make whoopee tonight? 16 00:00:54,610 --> 00:00:57,130 Definitely. Yippee and whoopee. 17 00:00:59,050 --> 00:01:02,870 We're all alone. No chaperone can get our number. 18 00:01:03,850 --> 00:01:05,290 The world's in slumber. 19 00:01:05,590 --> 00:01:07,030 Let's misbehave. 20 00:01:07,850 --> 00:01:11,590 There's something wild about you, child, that's so contagious. 21 00:01:12,530 --> 00:01:14,010 Let's be outrageous. 22 00:01:14,630 --> 00:01:16,090 Let's misbehave. 23 00:01:16,770 --> 00:01:20,810 When Adam won his hand, he wouldn't stand for teasing. 24 00:01:21,250 --> 00:01:25,250 He didn't care about those apples out of season. 25 00:01:25,590 --> 00:01:30,130 They say the spring means just one thing to little lovebirds. 26 00:01:30,780 --> 00:01:34,000 We're not above birds Let's misbehave 27 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:46,860 Let's 28 00:01:46,860 --> 00:01:47,860 misbehave 29 00:01:55,470 --> 00:01:56,490 Let's misbehave. 30 00:01:56,770 --> 00:02:02,410 You'll be just so sweet and only meet your fate, dear. It would be the great 31 00:02:02,410 --> 00:02:05,530 event of 1928, dear. 32 00:02:32,110 --> 00:02:36,790 When I first entered these stages in the early 20s, motion pictures were still 33 00:02:36,790 --> 00:02:37,790 very young. 34 00:02:38,270 --> 00:02:41,710 But as young as the industry was, it didn't take long before films were being 35 00:02:41,710 --> 00:02:44,050 scrutinized by panels throughout the country. 36 00:02:44,430 --> 00:02:49,330 Some were banned, some were declared obscene, some condemned as mortal sins, 37 00:02:49,450 --> 00:02:50,890 and some even caused riots. 38 00:02:51,410 --> 00:02:57,050 By 1922, the situation had become so bad that the industry hired ex-postmaster 39 00:02:57,050 --> 00:03:00,630 general Will Hayes to institute its first censorship code. 40 00:03:01,420 --> 00:03:05,680 The Code sets up high standards of performance for motion picture 41 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:10,660 producers. It states the considerations which good taste and community value 42 00:03:10,660 --> 00:03:16,940 make necessary in this universal form of entertainment. Respect for law, 43 00:03:17,220 --> 00:03:23,600 respect for every religion, respect for every race, and respect for every 44 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:24,600 nation. 45 00:03:24,780 --> 00:03:30,720 Will Hayes was first a very good friend of mine, a very nice man, a very common 46 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:32,320 man. He liked to joke. 47 00:03:33,260 --> 00:03:35,740 He didn't drink. He didn't smoke. 48 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:39,620 But outside of that, I mean, he was very human. 49 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:45,900 And he was dedicated to the industry and I think did probably more good for the 50 00:03:45,900 --> 00:03:51,140 industry than anybody else that I can think of. But by the late 1920s, the 51 00:03:51,140 --> 00:03:52,640 situation changed for the worse. 52 00:03:53,310 --> 00:03:57,690 Theater attendants fell and producers panicked. They were no longer willing to 53 00:03:57,690 --> 00:03:59,090 listen to the Hayes office. 54 00:03:59,830 --> 00:04:04,130 Gradually, more and more exploitive scenes were added in an effort to get 55 00:04:04,130 --> 00:04:05,750 people back into the theaters. 56 00:04:06,410 --> 00:04:11,170 I learned firsthand about this not-so-new policy in an early talkie I 57 00:04:11,170 --> 00:04:12,830 was in called Party Girl. 58 00:04:15,990 --> 00:04:21,190 This scandalous plot may seem camp to our modern ears, but it was more than 59 00:04:21,190 --> 00:04:22,190 shocking in its day. 60 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:30,180 Leda, what happened? 61 00:04:30,500 --> 00:04:31,660 Do you have to ask? 62 00:04:33,780 --> 00:04:34,780 Oh. 63 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:41,460 Oh, I'm terribly sorry. 64 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:45,380 How could I have done such a thing? 65 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:48,260 What can I do to make it right? 66 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:52,380 If you can't see your own obligation, I can ask nothing. 67 00:04:53,540 --> 00:04:54,540 Obligation? 68 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:58,430 Wait. Why, we don't even know each other. 69 00:05:00,090 --> 00:05:05,410 Why didn't you know I... I'm in love with someone else. 70 00:05:06,890 --> 00:05:08,550 Well, at least I was in good company. 71 00:05:09,110 --> 00:05:12,310 Here is a young Barbara Stanwyck starring in Babyface. 72 00:05:13,150 --> 00:05:15,210 Say, I like it here. How about a job? 73 00:05:15,490 --> 00:05:19,330 Oh, now, don't tell me in this great big building there ain't someplace for me. 74 00:05:22,250 --> 00:05:23,790 Have you had any experience? 75 00:05:25,270 --> 00:05:26,270 Plenty. 76 00:05:30,060 --> 00:05:31,140 I'd rather wait in there. 77 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:32,820 I hate crowds. 78 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:35,680 Don't you? 79 00:05:37,700 --> 00:05:40,100 The boss won't be back for an hour. 80 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:43,660 Well, then why don't we go in and talk this over? 81 00:05:48,660 --> 00:05:52,580 This film, like Sign, would soon be banned from theaters around the country. 82 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:09,380 Barbara Stanwyck at times may have been provocative, but another star at Panama 83 00:06:09,380 --> 00:06:11,500 drove the center absolutely crazy. 84 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:16,740 She 85 00:06:16,740 --> 00:06:28,740 was 86 00:06:28,740 --> 00:06:31,860 an interesting figure in the history of the cinema because... 87 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:35,960 I don't know that I think she was ever really particularly very sexy. She was 88 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:41,460 kind of funny, she was out front in a way that women particularly weren't in 89 00:06:41,460 --> 00:06:44,620 their times, and I think that that had as much to do with her success as 90 00:06:44,620 --> 00:06:45,620 anything else. 91 00:06:49,140 --> 00:06:55,100 Her particular gift was a power of suggestion and innuendo. She could make 92 00:06:55,100 --> 00:06:59,020 the most innocent lines sound wicked. 93 00:07:00,210 --> 00:07:01,210 Oh, Mr. 94 00:07:01,310 --> 00:07:06,270 Clayton, I was thinking over everything you said, and I made my decision. 95 00:07:06,710 --> 00:07:08,730 Good. I'm glad you made up your mind so quickly. 96 00:07:09,010 --> 00:07:11,170 Oh, very quick in a slow way. 97 00:07:12,470 --> 00:07:17,750 You see, I can't discuss it over the phone. It's got a lot of angles to it. 98 00:07:18,430 --> 00:07:19,750 You better come up and see me. 99 00:07:20,970 --> 00:07:22,090 Well, I'll be glad to. 100 00:07:22,350 --> 00:07:25,490 In fact, I'll come over right away if it's convenient for you. 101 00:07:25,750 --> 00:07:26,750 Most convenient. 102 00:07:27,930 --> 00:07:31,150 I'll tell you this much, you're going to like what I got in mind. 103 00:07:31,950 --> 00:07:32,950 Uh-huh. 104 00:07:33,750 --> 00:07:34,750 I'll be ready. 105 00:07:35,670 --> 00:07:36,670 Goodbye. 106 00:07:38,790 --> 00:07:45,030 The code not only didn't stop May, but worse, it was powerless against 107 00:07:45,030 --> 00:07:48,950 Hollywood's producers who sometimes went to the extent of even exploiting 108 00:07:48,950 --> 00:07:49,950 children. 109 00:09:13,450 --> 00:09:18,230 These early 30s performances shocked the public and provoked a popular cry for 110 00:09:18,230 --> 00:09:20,090 wholesome family entertainment. 111 00:09:20,790 --> 00:09:27,610 In fact, by 1934, boycotting films became a national movement, and a legion 112 00:09:27,610 --> 00:09:31,390 of decency was formed by the Catholic Church to demand change. 113 00:09:32,210 --> 00:09:37,510 Hollywood's producers knew they had to do something, so in 1934, they created 114 00:09:37,510 --> 00:09:40,870 what would become the most important censor office in the country. 115 00:09:41,770 --> 00:09:46,890 Every studio had to have their films approved by Mr. Joseph Breen, hired by 116 00:09:46,890 --> 00:09:51,650 Will Hayes, who prepared a simple set of commandments that spelled out what 117 00:09:51,650 --> 00:09:53,750 Hollywood could and could not do. 118 00:09:54,030 --> 00:10:00,870 Its broad general purpose is to ensure screen entertainment which will 119 00:10:00,870 --> 00:10:03,770 be reasonably acceptable to our patrons everywhere. 120 00:10:04,590 --> 00:10:08,330 Entertainment which is definitely free from offense. 121 00:10:11,810 --> 00:10:14,230 Kisses can last no more than three seconds. 122 00:10:16,590 --> 00:10:19,730 In love scenes, keep at least one foot on the floor. 123 00:10:23,050 --> 00:10:25,850 Nudity isn't allowed, plain and simple. 124 00:10:31,110 --> 00:10:33,150 Excessive violence is forbidden. 125 00:10:36,230 --> 00:10:38,590 Show that crime does not pay. 126 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:44,200 Profanity is not allowed. 127 00:10:45,860 --> 00:10:50,200 Brothels and places suggesting sexual sin are not proper locations. 128 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:58,860 There is no room on the screen at any time for pictures which offend against 129 00:10:58,860 --> 00:11:00,040 common decency. 130 00:11:09,380 --> 00:11:13,960 The vulgar, the cheap... and the Torby is out. 131 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:19,240 The code worked, and the film industry cleaned up its act. 132 00:11:19,680 --> 00:11:23,000 Stars like Shirley Temple were given much more wholesome roles. 133 00:11:40,910 --> 00:11:43,390 They even went so far as to clean up Betty Boop. 134 00:11:48,570 --> 00:11:55,370 Put your 135 00:11:55,370 --> 00:11:58,750 buns below, but leave the damsel to me. 136 00:12:00,290 --> 00:12:07,250 You mean... Betty had sex appeal, so 137 00:12:07,250 --> 00:12:10,570 the Hays office demanded that she be covered up, which meant... 138 00:12:10,780 --> 00:12:12,860 losing the garter and the short skirt. 139 00:12:13,380 --> 00:12:17,700 But when Betty lost her sex appeal, she lost her audience as well and 140 00:12:17,700 --> 00:12:19,980 disappeared from the screen within a couple of years. 141 00:12:24,020 --> 00:12:30,720 This censored W.C. Fields sequence 142 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:34,960 of The Dentist was not only banned because of its not-so-subtle sexuality, 143 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:39,240 but also because of strong disapproval from the dentists of America. 144 00:12:42,530 --> 00:12:44,650 Have you ever had this tooth pulled before? 145 00:12:45,110 --> 00:12:46,110 No. 146 00:12:46,990 --> 00:12:48,690 This won't hurt you much. 147 00:13:09,610 --> 00:13:10,610 No. 148 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:52,080 whole sequence be cut. 149 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:54,420 And this is all that remains. 150 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:01,200 Relax. 151 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:02,920 Would you like a drink? 152 00:14:04,900 --> 00:14:10,820 The biggest censorship battle of the 1930s did not involve W.C. Fields, Mae 153 00:14:10,820 --> 00:14:12,880 West, or even Shirley Temple. 154 00:14:13,260 --> 00:14:16,240 For that matter, it didn't even involve a human being. 155 00:14:25,550 --> 00:14:29,810 King Kong may have been frustrated in his search for Fay Wray, but not nearly 156 00:14:29,810 --> 00:14:34,370 as frustrated as Joe Breen, who found the film excessively violent and 157 00:14:34,370 --> 00:14:37,490 demanded over six minutes of cuts such as these. 158 00:15:35,319 --> 00:15:37,680 You've seen King Kong looking in the window. 159 00:15:41,230 --> 00:15:45,570 Look at what he saw and what Green tried to make sure that you would never see. 160 00:16:20,650 --> 00:16:25,330 The most controversial scene was the romantic interlude between Fay Wray and 161 00:16:25,330 --> 00:16:26,330 King Kong. 162 00:16:26,410 --> 00:16:31,570 The peeling off of her clothes and his obvious infatuation with the starlet 163 00:16:31,570 --> 00:16:36,150 went against two of the production code's forbidden lists, nudity and 164 00:16:36,150 --> 00:16:37,150 perversion. 165 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:52,240 As Mae West had her imitators, King Kong had his. 166 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:54,740 But some may have gone a bit too far. 167 00:16:55,260 --> 00:16:59,980 In The Love Life of a Gorilla, producers promised the audience a look at a love 168 00:16:59,980 --> 00:17:01,840 cult between natives and gorillas. 169 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:06,440 The Hayes office made them break their promise by forcing them to change the 170 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:08,260 title and cut these scenes. 171 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:09,680 He was paralyzed. 172 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:11,280 He wanted to shoot but could not. 173 00:17:11,500 --> 00:17:16,359 Here, being enacted before his very eyes, was the fantastic monkey worship. 174 00:17:16,700 --> 00:17:19,180 an actual living thing in our midst. 175 00:17:50,570 --> 00:17:55,610 The love life of a gorilla was still shown, changing its name to Forbidden 176 00:17:55,610 --> 00:17:59,570 Adventure and playing at theaters that Hayes and Breen could not control. 177 00:18:00,010 --> 00:18:03,790 It was just one of the many exploitation movies that independents produced in 178 00:18:03,790 --> 00:18:09,450 Hollywood during the 30s. They tried to call their films educational, but it was 179 00:18:09,450 --> 00:18:12,010 obvious that education had very little to do with it. 180 00:18:12,390 --> 00:18:14,370 That night there was a wild party. 181 00:18:14,810 --> 00:18:18,130 I drank some champagne and it went to my head. 182 00:18:18,550 --> 00:18:19,550 And then it... 183 00:18:21,710 --> 00:18:23,170 I gave myself to him. 184 00:18:23,390 --> 00:18:26,970 Another film banned by the Legion of Decency was Sex Madness. 185 00:18:27,530 --> 00:18:33,210 Sex Madness takes you behind the scenes where you will learn the story of young 186 00:18:33,210 --> 00:18:38,150 and innocent Millicent as she finds herself falling in with bad company. 187 00:18:38,550 --> 00:18:39,550 Oh, I'm tired. 188 00:18:39,750 --> 00:18:40,830 Me for bed. 189 00:18:41,410 --> 00:18:43,150 Bed? Did you say bed? 190 00:18:44,650 --> 00:18:46,730 That's not to relax him. That's for action. 191 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:51,860 You will follow Millicent down the crimson path of immorality. 192 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:55,700 She lost not only her honor, but her health. 193 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:58,120 Not an aspect of the disease will be left. 194 00:18:58,780 --> 00:19:02,080 It will even be fixed on me. 195 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:04,220 What in God's name are you talking about? 196 00:19:04,540 --> 00:19:07,460 I thought I was a human. 197 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:12,660 They were disguised as educational films. I can remember at a... 198 00:19:12,910 --> 00:19:17,330 theater back in Bath, New York, where they had some sort of a medical film. It 199 00:19:17,330 --> 00:19:21,930 was a VD film, of course, and they had separated the audience. I mean, there 200 00:19:21,930 --> 00:19:24,630 was a showing for men and a showing for women, and there were all sorts of cries 201 00:19:24,630 --> 00:19:29,950 about nurses in attendance at all times, and it was sort of a sex technique, and 202 00:19:29,950 --> 00:19:35,590 they were kind of funny. There was a narrator on stage as well as the film to 203 00:19:35,590 --> 00:19:37,510 be seen, and it was... 204 00:19:38,060 --> 00:19:41,260 what somebody once said about the women's magazine years later, kind of a 205 00:19:41,260 --> 00:19:42,260 pious pornography. 206 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:47,100 You will see it all in this no-hold-barred film expose. 207 00:19:48,300 --> 00:19:51,800 Lust. Man, oh, man, she got it. Boy, oh, boy, look at that baby. 208 00:19:52,340 --> 00:19:55,760 Debauchery. You can phone home and you're staying with friends. 209 00:19:57,140 --> 00:19:58,580 Perversion in its extreme. 210 00:20:02,140 --> 00:20:03,180 Sex madness. 211 00:20:04,740 --> 00:20:06,860 Coming soon to this theater. 212 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:21,800 In the 1940s, Hollywood not only produced motion pictures to entertain 213 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:27,360 and educate the troops, but also films like The Gang's All Here to keep up the 214 00:20:27,360 --> 00:20:28,360 public morale. 215 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:32,960 But director Busby Berkeley might have gone a bit too far with his suggestive 216 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:35,680 dance, which faced its own censorship battles. 217 00:20:36,100 --> 00:20:41,340 Can you believe that in Argentina, this was banned not because of the costumes, 218 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:44,620 but because the dancers exposed their bare feet? 219 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:07,240 Then in the 1940s, Hollywood was wracked by a major censorship battle, which made 220 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:10,340 the cuts imposed on King Kong in the 30s seem minor. 221 00:21:10,820 --> 00:21:15,520 This time, Hollywood censors went to war with producer Howard Hughes over his 222 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:16,740 production of The Outlaw. 223 00:21:17,380 --> 00:21:23,200 And if the truth be known, The Outlaw was outlawed by his own promotion, his 224 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:26,600 own advertising, and even by his own coming attractions. 225 00:21:27,140 --> 00:21:30,940 Now, Howard Hughes gives you The Outlaw. 226 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:36,600 The outlaw is the most exciting entertainment you have ever seen. 227 00:21:43,300 --> 00:21:44,720 Savage love. 228 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:46,900 Primitive emotion. 229 00:21:56,680 --> 00:22:00,460 I think the advertising campaign had a lot to do with the people that were 230 00:22:00,460 --> 00:22:01,500 looking at the film. 231 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:03,860 I want to tussle with Russell. 232 00:22:04,140 --> 00:22:07,020 I can't remember him all. They were all corny as can be. 233 00:22:07,980 --> 00:22:13,700 He was trying to get a seamless bra, which they did not have in those days. 234 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:15,860 And he was ahead of his time, as usual. 235 00:22:17,100 --> 00:22:22,700 And it was a ridiculous contraption. I never wore it. 236 00:22:23,420 --> 00:22:25,980 Once I found out what he wanted, I... 237 00:22:27,580 --> 00:22:33,380 threw the thing under the bed and put on my own bra and put Kleenex over the top 238 00:22:33,380 --> 00:22:36,960 of it and put the blouse back on. The wardrobe girl was having a fit. She 239 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:38,040 says, I'm going to get fired. 240 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:40,980 And I said, forget it. They won't ever know the difference. And we went out and 241 00:22:40,980 --> 00:22:41,980 did it. 242 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:43,080 And he never knew. 243 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:49,160 With the nation's attention focused on Jane Russell's bosom, the censors and 244 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:50,640 Howard Hughes went to battle. 245 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:52,200 He didn't. 246 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:54,160 You see anything of Dr. and the sheriff? 247 00:22:55,720 --> 00:23:00,620 They'll lay right behind you and put those hands where they belong. 248 00:23:01,140 --> 00:23:05,440 There was cleavage in it, and of course in those days you didn't show any 249 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:06,440 cleavage at all. 250 00:23:07,060 --> 00:23:12,420 And it was, I remember the shot they got, as a matter of fact, and it was not 251 00:23:12,420 --> 00:23:16,240 even supposed to be in there because it was an accident. 252 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:23,280 It was a, there was a, the bed and Billy the kid was lying on the bed and I was. 253 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:27,380 The camera was right across from me, and I leaned over this way. I had a blouse 254 00:23:27,380 --> 00:23:31,980 on that went like so, and I leaned over to pull the covers up, and they got too 255 00:23:31,980 --> 00:23:34,640 much cleavage. Be careful of your wound. You'll hurt yourself. 256 00:23:35,140 --> 00:23:37,720 Hughes fought Breen for two years over this scene. 257 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:42,420 Breen's office demanded that over eight feet or five seconds be cut out. 258 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:47,540 Instead of eight feet, Hughes cleverly cut out eight inches, which amounted to 259 00:23:47,540 --> 00:23:48,700 only about one second. 260 00:23:49,260 --> 00:23:52,900 We've slowed it down, and this is how the uncensored version looked. 261 00:24:03,530 --> 00:24:07,450 When you see the picture today, it's just, you know, it's kind of a slow, 262 00:24:07,650 --> 00:24:12,130 dull picture, and it certainly doesn't have any, there's nothing very naughty 263 00:24:12,130 --> 00:24:13,250 about that picture at all. 264 00:24:20,230 --> 00:24:24,530 Jane Russell and Howard Hughes teamed up again and ran into a bigger fight with 265 00:24:24,530 --> 00:24:27,310 the censors, this time over the French line. 266 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:34,740 I remember in the French line he wanted me to wear a bikini. Well, nobody in 267 00:24:34,740 --> 00:24:36,140 this country wore a bikini. 268 00:24:36,860 --> 00:24:42,320 And you only heard about bikinis in the south of France where, you know, some 269 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:45,640 naughty girls in the south of France wore bikinis. So he wanted me to do a 270 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:47,880 dance number in a bikini. And I said, no way. 271 00:24:51,940 --> 00:24:53,520 I'm looking for trouble. 272 00:24:54,180 --> 00:24:56,780 I'm going to throw the book away. 273 00:24:57,660 --> 00:25:00,420 Be unpredictable from day to day. 274 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:05,820 In every way I can, can, can, can, can. 275 00:25:06,120 --> 00:25:12,340 This Cinderella is looking for a fella who tell her what she's sweet as I am. 276 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:16,640 Looking for trouble, won't mind the trouble. 277 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:19,840 In trouble looks like a M-A-N. 278 00:25:30,540 --> 00:25:34,900 After the French line ruckus, because there was one about the costume that I 279 00:25:34,900 --> 00:25:35,900 eventually wore. 280 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:41,120 It was a one-piece bathing suit, but it had holes cut out in it. And then, of 281 00:25:41,120 --> 00:25:42,340 course, they had a fit about that. 282 00:25:42,980 --> 00:25:49,880 And after that was over, I just said, I said to him that I did 283 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:54,440 not ever want to get in a picture or be in one that had any censorship problems 284 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:55,440 at all. 285 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:08,800 Jane's problems with censorship unfortunately didn't end with the French 286 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:14,880 line. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes matched Jane with Marilyn Monroe, who sang 287 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:20,220 Little Girl from Little Rock, the song whose lyrics were censored by Joe Breen 288 00:26:20,220 --> 00:26:21,220 himself. 289 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:27,060 Then someone broke my heart in Little Rock. 290 00:26:28,060 --> 00:26:29,820 So I... 291 00:26:30,220 --> 00:26:37,200 They left their pieces there Like a little lost lamb I roamed about I 292 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:43,120 came to New York and I found out That men are the same way everywhere 293 00:26:43,120 --> 00:26:50,120 I liked Marilyn very much. She was very shy, 294 00:26:50,420 --> 00:26:54,800 and she was having trouble with the front office for some reason. 295 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:59,140 Trouble was nothing new to Marilyn, whose background was already full of 296 00:26:59,140 --> 00:27:02,200 censorship problems, dating back to her calendar photos. 297 00:27:02,780 --> 00:27:08,280 Her reputation caused censors to stay on the set and monitor her actions, even 298 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:09,280 down to a kiss. 299 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:11,760 How about me? Did you like me too? 300 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:18,200 Well, at first sight, I thought you were some kind of a hooligan, yelling and 301 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:19,420 stomping like that. 302 00:27:23,630 --> 00:27:28,930 But when I realized you were doing it for me, I was attracted to you. 303 00:27:30,430 --> 00:27:31,430 Attracted? 304 00:27:34,070 --> 00:27:35,090 You are? 305 00:27:35,850 --> 00:27:38,190 I still am. You still are? 306 00:27:39,570 --> 00:27:40,670 Really attracted? 307 00:27:42,410 --> 00:27:48,470 I can imagine how far we've traveled in whatever direction since then. 308 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:53,360 is that in the love scene, we had to reshoot the love scene because Marilyn 309 00:27:53,360 --> 00:27:55,180 opened her mouth during the kiss. 310 00:27:55,860 --> 00:27:58,500 And that was the censorship problem. 311 00:27:59,820 --> 00:28:06,460 I mean, you're so big and strong and, well, so darn heavy 312 00:28:06,460 --> 00:28:11,240 -looking. I guess I am in pretty good shape for the rodeo, because you've got 313 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:13,680 to be when you're competing in all five Class A events. 314 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:30,120 We went to reshoot it on another day, and Joshua Logan was directing the 315 00:28:30,120 --> 00:28:33,620 scene. He said, now, Marilyn, don't open your mouth, you know. And I'd come to 316 00:28:33,620 --> 00:28:36,620 kiss her, and she'd open her mouth. I said, okay, cut, take two. 317 00:28:36,900 --> 00:28:38,120 Marilyn, don't open your mouth. 318 00:28:38,340 --> 00:28:40,260 And she kept opening her mouth. 319 00:28:40,580 --> 00:28:45,220 So after about the seventh or eighth time, when I went to kiss her and she 320 00:28:45,220 --> 00:28:47,780 opened her mouth, I went and I looked and I... 321 00:28:48,030 --> 00:28:51,430 looked in her mouth like this, and I turned to the camera and I said, you 322 00:28:51,430 --> 00:28:52,890 will tell mother where I've gone. 323 00:28:54,190 --> 00:28:57,290 Marilyn eventually got fed up with Hollywood and left for New York. 324 00:28:57,650 --> 00:28:59,950 Her replacement was Sherry North. 325 00:29:00,630 --> 00:29:05,630 Marilyn Monroe was put on suspension, and Fox was courting me very heavily 326 00:29:05,630 --> 00:29:08,630 because they wanted another blonde to threaten Marilyn. 327 00:29:09,190 --> 00:29:12,310 She didn't want to do what they wanted, which was called How to Be Very, Very 328 00:29:12,310 --> 00:29:15,970 Popular, which was the first film I did at Fox when I went under contract. 329 00:29:38,830 --> 00:29:42,150 It's so innocent by today's standards, I can't believe it. 330 00:29:42,430 --> 00:29:47,230 But it was a lot of, you know, shaking and gyrating and jumping around and all 331 00:29:47,230 --> 00:29:48,230 that kind of crazy stuff. 332 00:29:48,430 --> 00:29:53,910 And I think, really, at the time, everything on film was very innocent, 333 00:29:54,110 --> 00:29:56,930 but if there was any kind of hype about it. 334 00:29:57,150 --> 00:30:02,470 And since I had come from Broadway and I was the hottest 90 seconds on Broadway, 335 00:30:02,810 --> 00:30:05,870 I already came with a questionable... 336 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:14,540 And so when I did the dance number, all of the kids that I had worked with in 337 00:30:14,540 --> 00:30:16,160 the chorus were in the show. 338 00:30:16,420 --> 00:30:22,900 And they said, you're getting quite a reputation, and people at our church ask 339 00:30:22,900 --> 00:30:29,800 us not to work with you, and things like that. When you were coming up in this 340 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:34,580 business and doing bathing beauty contests and all that kind of stuff, 341 00:30:36,090 --> 00:30:41,150 and doing little cheesecake photos and things like that. There was a man in 342 00:30:41,150 --> 00:30:47,970 town who did films, and girls would walk around pools in their bathing suits, you 343 00:30:47,970 --> 00:30:51,690 know, and he would photograph it, and then he would sell these through the 344 00:30:51,690 --> 00:30:52,810 mail as home movies. 345 00:30:53,410 --> 00:30:58,250 And they were very innocent, and Marilyn did them, and everybody who did 346 00:30:58,250 --> 00:31:02,070 cheesecake did them when you were broke. He paid $50 for film. 347 00:31:02,690 --> 00:31:06,150 So when I went to do my first film, I thought, well, I'm not just going to 348 00:31:06,150 --> 00:31:07,610 walk around the pool. I have to dance. 349 00:31:16,270 --> 00:31:21,490 So they were tried in court, and there was a lot of publicity about they were 350 00:31:21,490 --> 00:31:25,830 to censor them, and they were lewd and lascivious and all that kind of stuff. 351 00:31:25,870 --> 00:31:30,910 So there was a court date, and they showed the films in court, and the judge 352 00:31:30,910 --> 00:31:33,830 said... Well, they're really just kind of boring. 353 00:31:36,170 --> 00:31:40,490 But it was a big censorship thing, and it was the same thing, you know, with 354 00:31:40,490 --> 00:31:41,670 Marilyn and the calendar. 355 00:31:42,070 --> 00:31:46,390 And that night was that I had been vindicated. It hit the front page of the 356 00:31:46,390 --> 00:31:50,290 paper, and Marilyn was getting her photo play award. 357 00:31:50,690 --> 00:31:56,850 And we met out in front, and she said, Oh, first me with the calendar, and now 358 00:31:56,850 --> 00:31:59,030 you with the lewd films. 359 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:04,720 And it seemed like we were these racy, lewd, lascivious people. 360 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,440 Sherry faced yet another type of censorship battle. 361 00:32:08,780 --> 00:32:13,500 While her most personal measurements were front-page news, censors 362 00:32:13,500 --> 00:32:16,400 continuously made sure that none of it showed. 363 00:32:16,740 --> 00:32:20,980 We always used to laugh at Fox Studio because all of the costumes were made, 364 00:32:21,060 --> 00:32:26,480 they were all boned and padded out because of that bullet bra or whatever 365 00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:28,740 you call it. You could extend... 366 00:32:30,159 --> 00:32:34,640 you know, across the room, as long as you didn't show any cleavage this way. 367 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:40,880 And so the standard thing in the wardrobe department was all the busts 368 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:41,739 were made the same. 369 00:32:41,740 --> 00:32:45,020 And we always used to laugh because we'd all say, look, look, we all measure 370 00:32:45,020 --> 00:32:48,000 exactly the same. And when we lie down, nothing moves. 371 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:53,880 And there was one special brassiere at Universal that it was sort of like, 372 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,980 well, everybody used it. 373 00:32:57,960 --> 00:32:59,140 That's it open for you, honey. 374 00:33:01,300 --> 00:33:02,540 In a mow, honey. 375 00:33:04,260 --> 00:33:09,100 Because of the cleavage problem and they couldn't really display their charms, 376 00:33:09,340 --> 00:33:13,920 they went the obvious, which was patting their bras. 377 00:33:14,380 --> 00:33:19,460 Look, Miss Dimple Toes, if you people at the school think that Vic and me, Vic's 378 00:33:19,460 --> 00:33:22,940 my husband and he's out of town on a job, if you think we're raising a 379 00:33:22,940 --> 00:33:24,160 juvenile delinquent, say it. 380 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,080 No, Mrs. Delaney, we don't think... Don't double talk me. 381 00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:29,740 You've got me pegged as a no-good relative. 382 00:33:30,060 --> 00:33:33,320 The only reason I came here is because... Come on, honey. Don't draw 383 00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:34,320 diagrams of me. 384 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:40,860 The bullet bra is very pointed breasts that look like a 385 00:33:40,860 --> 00:33:41,900 pyramid. 386 00:33:42,860 --> 00:33:44,140 That's my only description. 387 00:33:44,860 --> 00:33:46,120 Two pyramids. 388 00:33:47,420 --> 00:33:50,240 I don't remember inviting you in here. 389 00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:52,140 I won't look. 390 00:33:53,380 --> 00:33:54,600 And I think that... 391 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:59,380 Guys in those days had probably thought all women had breasts like pyramids, you 392 00:33:59,380 --> 00:34:01,900 know, and they were very discouraged when they found out otherwise. 393 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:10,600 And that's the way they got around it, by wearing this brassiere and 394 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:15,380 covering this up to here and then becoming larger this way. That way the 395 00:34:15,380 --> 00:34:17,360 Hayes office never could peek, you know. 396 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:22,659 The Hayes office could peek at scripts and make sure American audiences saw 397 00:34:22,659 --> 00:34:24,199 only what they approved. 398 00:34:24,909 --> 00:34:29,670 But the producers knew what would sell in Europe and reshot several scenes. 399 00:34:30,330 --> 00:34:34,810 In this scene, undercover agent Russ Tamblyn meets the leading drug dealer 400 00:34:34,810 --> 00:34:36,130 played by Jackie Coogan. 401 00:34:36,610 --> 00:34:40,590 When the film played outside the United States, viewers got a closer look at 402 00:34:40,590 --> 00:34:41,989 this unhappy girl. 403 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:04,520 Russ calls his teacher and wakes her up. 404 00:35:08,660 --> 00:35:13,680 Hello? Viewers outside Breen's control saw a slightly different version of this 405 00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:15,540 scene. What is this, a joke? 406 00:35:15,940 --> 00:35:18,060 No, no, no, this isn't a gag. 407 00:35:18,720 --> 00:35:20,900 You've just got to believe me. I can't explain now. 408 00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:24,000 You're looking for excitement? 409 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:28,080 Why not? I'm a citizen. 410 00:35:28,410 --> 00:35:32,270 Upon reading the script of High School Confidential, the censors demanded that 411 00:35:32,270 --> 00:35:34,590 Mamie be completely cut from the film. 412 00:35:34,890 --> 00:35:39,450 They found her character to be a nymphomaniac and unnecessary to the 413 00:35:39,450 --> 00:35:45,110 story. That's why I worry, thinking of you coming up against those young, tight 414 00:35:45,110 --> 00:35:46,110 sweaters. 415 00:35:47,350 --> 00:35:48,350 You ought to know. 416 00:35:49,910 --> 00:35:51,690 Stop treating me like a stranger. 417 00:35:52,850 --> 00:35:54,650 Let's get out of town slowly. 418 00:35:56,950 --> 00:36:01,210 Relatives should always kiss each other hello and goodbye politely. 419 00:36:02,010 --> 00:36:03,830 You're getting paid for my room and board. 420 00:36:04,830 --> 00:36:08,670 The producers fought for Mamie and finally won out. 421 00:36:09,190 --> 00:36:12,090 But that wouldn't be Mamie's only problem with the Hayes office. 422 00:36:12,430 --> 00:36:14,710 Oh, I did a movie called Girlstown. 423 00:36:15,090 --> 00:36:21,710 And I was put into girls like it's a Catholic school for bad 424 00:36:21,710 --> 00:36:25,610 girls. You don't look so tough to me. You do everything the sisters tell you 425 00:36:25,610 --> 00:36:26,479 to do. 426 00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:28,960 I give them a fair shake, they give me a fair shake. 427 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:30,460 I'll bet you do. 428 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:34,980 Use a lot of soap. 429 00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:37,120 You need it. 430 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:50,260 I was asked to supervise pictures to be produced by a producer new to our lot 431 00:36:50,260 --> 00:36:51,700 named Suggsmith. 432 00:36:53,020 --> 00:36:57,820 And the first picture he started to work on, It was called Girlstown. 433 00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:03,920 So we sent the picture over to Monsignor Little, as I remember it. 434 00:37:05,620 --> 00:37:11,000 And he called me, told me about objections that remained, 435 00:37:11,300 --> 00:37:15,520 and I discussed them with Zugsmith. 436 00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:19,580 Zugsmith said, could I talk to Monsignor Little? 437 00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:23,500 It's a free country. I couldn't say no. 438 00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:25,060 Put him on the phone. 439 00:37:26,030 --> 00:37:30,210 And he managed to aggravate Monsignor Little so completely that the first and 440 00:37:30,210 --> 00:37:34,430 only time that I knew of, he lost his temper and said he was going to condemn 441 00:37:34,430 --> 00:37:35,430 the picture. 442 00:37:38,030 --> 00:37:42,550 The blonde bombshells of the 1950s were notorious for being in trouble with the 443 00:37:42,550 --> 00:37:46,430 census. One of the most famous and controversial blondes to come out of 444 00:37:46,430 --> 00:37:49,110 Hollywood at that time was Jane Mansfield. 445 00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:24,540 Ladies and gentlemen, now for another special award. 446 00:38:25,130 --> 00:38:28,690 To present that award, a very special young lady who came to Hollywood by way 447 00:38:28,690 --> 00:38:29,690 of UCLA. 448 00:38:30,190 --> 00:38:33,790 I'm sure she is easily recognized, at least here in her own community, 449 00:38:33,790 --> 00:38:38,310 although she could very easily travel anonymously just any place, Miss Jane 450 00:38:38,310 --> 00:38:39,310 Mansfield. 451 00:39:11,500 --> 00:39:12,560 Sweet of all of you. 452 00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:14,360 Thank you very much. 453 00:39:15,020 --> 00:39:16,540 Now, down to business. 454 00:39:28,220 --> 00:39:33,360 Though determined to be a star, Jane was never able to capture the magic of 455 00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:34,360 Marilyn. 456 00:39:34,460 --> 00:39:39,500 Later, in an effort to restore her failing career, she finally bared it all 457 00:39:39,500 --> 00:39:41,250 for... Promises, promises. 458 00:39:41,710 --> 00:39:43,750 It outraged the censors. 459 00:39:44,090 --> 00:39:46,970 Jane Mansfield's career would never recover. 460 00:39:48,730 --> 00:39:49,730 Later, 461 00:40:04,950 --> 00:40:09,650 about 1967, we were to do... 462 00:40:11,740 --> 00:40:15,580 a nightclub act in a place called Biloxi, Mississippi, called Gus Stevens 463 00:40:15,580 --> 00:40:16,580 Supper Club. 464 00:40:16,740 --> 00:40:19,560 We were both booked in there at different times. 465 00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:24,920 Jane had just gotten back from Europe, and I was held over in New York while I 466 00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:28,920 was doing a play, and I'd asked her if she would please switch times with me. 467 00:40:29,260 --> 00:40:32,900 And she said that she would. She'd take the kids down, and that's when she met 468 00:40:32,900 --> 00:40:33,900 her death. 469 00:40:34,020 --> 00:40:39,060 I was very distraught. I was devastated when Jane died because I felt that 470 00:40:39,060 --> 00:40:40,060 possibly... 471 00:40:41,580 --> 00:40:46,000 Maybe in some way I had contributed to it. It wasn't that I was psychic, but it 472 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:50,520 was that there was a protectiveness that prevented me from going down there, and 473 00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:52,140 maybe the same thing would have happened to me. 474 00:40:59,240 --> 00:40:59,640 And 475 00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:06,560 now 476 00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:08,760 let's join my co-host, Peter Fonda. 477 00:41:09,210 --> 00:41:10,530 This is Hollywood Boulevard. 478 00:41:11,190 --> 00:41:14,490 It's changed a little since I first came to town 46 years ago. 479 00:41:15,390 --> 00:41:18,430 And this, you'd scarcely give it a second look now. 480 00:41:18,930 --> 00:41:22,430 But 50 years ago, this was the most important building in Hollywood. 481 00:41:23,170 --> 00:41:24,630 This was the censor's office. 482 00:41:28,910 --> 00:41:33,530 As a teenager and active film goer, I remember the 50s as a time when stars 483 00:41:33,530 --> 00:41:38,410 like Marilyn Monroe, Sherry North, or Jane Mansfield made the term sex goddess 484 00:41:38,410 --> 00:41:39,410 mean something. 485 00:41:39,490 --> 00:41:43,610 But the sex goddesses had it easy when it came to censorship compared to 486 00:41:43,610 --> 00:41:44,610 Babydoll. 487 00:41:47,870 --> 00:41:48,870 Babydoll! 488 00:41:50,950 --> 00:41:51,950 Babydoll! 489 00:41:52,990 --> 00:41:57,870 We thought that Babydoll was going to be a sleeper. 490 00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:02,620 As a matter of fact, it was a low-budget, small, black-and-white 491 00:42:02,620 --> 00:42:06,040 production done all on location in Mississippi. 492 00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:13,440 And Carl and Eli were wonderful stage actors, not necessarily big movie 493 00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:14,440 names. 494 00:42:15,240 --> 00:42:20,320 Marilyn Monroe had wanted to do the film, and Warner Brothers had wanted 495 00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:21,320 her. 496 00:42:21,770 --> 00:42:27,250 Elia Kazan and Tennessee Williams did not because Marilyn was such a big star 497 00:42:27,250 --> 00:42:33,310 and she brought her own image to any production that she did. And they wanted 498 00:42:33,310 --> 00:42:38,270 an unknown girl so that Babydoll became the new image. 499 00:42:40,350 --> 00:42:46,490 The story was of a 19-year-old girl who was promised in marriage to an older 500 00:42:46,490 --> 00:42:48,890 man, Archie Lee, Carl Malden. 501 00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:55,320 And the marriage had not been consummated. And it was very funny, the 502 00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:59,700 fact that he was constantly peeking at her through holes in the wall and so 503 00:42:59,700 --> 00:43:03,280 forth to see her sleeping or to try to catch her in the bathtub or something. 504 00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:08,140 Because unless there was furniture in the house, the marriage was not going to 505 00:43:08,140 --> 00:43:10,680 be consummated until her 19th birthday. 506 00:43:11,100 --> 00:43:15,200 Carl Malden, because this new modern... 507 00:43:15,790 --> 00:43:20,090 Cotton gin has been built by the Eli Wallach, the Vaccaro character. 508 00:43:21,190 --> 00:43:25,310 He's been losing a lot of his business. Now, if he loses his business, he can't 509 00:43:25,310 --> 00:43:28,790 buy the furniture for the house. If he doesn't have any furniture in the house, 510 00:43:29,170 --> 00:43:32,450 Babydoll is not going to let him consummate the marriage. So he's a very 511 00:43:32,450 --> 00:43:33,450 desperate man. 512 00:43:36,770 --> 00:43:40,830 He goes out and burns down Eli Wallach's cotton gin. 513 00:43:41,650 --> 00:43:47,030 Eli... hears about this, he finds out that Carl Malden did it. So he comes to 514 00:43:47,030 --> 00:43:48,030 get revenge. 515 00:43:48,310 --> 00:43:53,570 And his revenge is by taking the virginity of Babydoll. 516 00:43:53,850 --> 00:43:59,450 In carrying out our action, which was, I wanted that woman to confess about 517 00:43:59,450 --> 00:44:02,890 the burning of my cotton gin. 518 00:44:03,630 --> 00:44:08,010 And this was one of the steps en route to doing it. Whenever she got too 519 00:44:08,010 --> 00:44:10,390 frantic and too frightened, I pulled back. 520 00:44:11,310 --> 00:44:12,430 Should we just relax? 521 00:44:18,370 --> 00:44:20,470 Would you move over and make a little room? 522 00:44:23,390 --> 00:44:24,910 Is that enough room for you? 523 00:44:25,390 --> 00:44:27,190 Not for me. How about you? 524 00:44:30,750 --> 00:44:33,150 What a lovely remark your husband made. 525 00:44:34,610 --> 00:44:36,350 Good neighbor policy, I mean. 526 00:44:37,250 --> 00:44:38,510 Eli Wallach. 527 00:44:39,669 --> 00:44:45,830 Intimidate baby doll and he begins to tease her now in a very subtle way 528 00:44:45,830 --> 00:44:51,730 You you absolutely saw nothing because nothing happened I think he took a 529 00:44:51,730 --> 00:44:57,630 feather and and he talked to me in low voice now baby doll becomes very aroused 530 00:44:57,630 --> 00:45:02,230 by this without quite Understanding what's happening to her? 531 00:45:09,020 --> 00:45:10,300 Delegate? Me? 532 00:45:11,460 --> 00:45:15,440 Neither much of you, but what there is is choice. 533 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:21,220 When the controversy happened, the most incredible things were said about this 534 00:45:21,220 --> 00:45:27,340 scene. They said that he had his hands on very intimate places on my body. 535 00:45:27,900 --> 00:45:33,120 It didn't happen. It was suggested in the emotion, the deep emotion that was 536 00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:37,880 felt within the scene. But you did not see those things. If you actually looked 537 00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:41,060 at that film objectively, you could see that nothing happened. 538 00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:43,840 There's the absolute delicacy of your skin. 539 00:45:44,980 --> 00:45:46,980 Well, what should I say? Thanks or something? 540 00:45:47,940 --> 00:45:50,240 No, you just smiled at me. 541 00:45:50,580 --> 00:45:52,460 You've got an attractive smile. 542 00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:56,740 Oh, yes, you do. 543 00:45:57,630 --> 00:45:58,730 Come on, now smile. 544 00:45:59,330 --> 00:46:01,890 There, you see, you do. You do have them. 545 00:46:02,190 --> 00:46:07,690 In the swing scene, a lot of esoteric magazines wrote about it later, saying 546 00:46:07,690 --> 00:46:10,190 that was a real seduction. 547 00:46:10,490 --> 00:46:12,810 Where were his hands? What was he doing? 548 00:46:13,910 --> 00:46:15,490 Actually, we were shooting in November. 549 00:46:16,350 --> 00:46:18,430 It was cold as hell in Mississippi. 550 00:46:20,050 --> 00:46:24,350 In order that our breath not show on the screen, since it was supposed to take 551 00:46:24,350 --> 00:46:26,790 place in the summer, we'd chew on ice cubes. 552 00:46:27,460 --> 00:46:32,220 until Kazan said action. Then we'd spit out the ice cubes so the breath was the 553 00:46:32,220 --> 00:46:33,660 same temperature as the air. 554 00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:37,580 That's one of the things we were concerned about. Also, we were freezing, 555 00:46:37,700 --> 00:46:42,900 so we had long johns on and there were radiators down below heating us so that 556 00:46:42,900 --> 00:46:44,340 we would have a sense of warmth. 557 00:46:45,260 --> 00:46:50,220 And it always impresses me that people say, oh, that was a sexy scene. We were 558 00:46:50,220 --> 00:46:51,220 freezing. 559 00:46:52,380 --> 00:46:54,540 I think I'll go and make us some lemonade. 560 00:46:57,290 --> 00:46:58,390 What did you do that for? 561 00:46:59,570 --> 00:47:02,610 I don't want to be deprived of the pleasure of your company. 562 00:47:04,070 --> 00:47:05,070 What's that? 563 00:47:06,990 --> 00:47:07,868 Oh, Mr. 564 00:47:07,870 --> 00:47:09,930 McCarroll, you're certainly getting familiar. 565 00:47:10,490 --> 00:47:14,110 Don't you have any fun-loving spirit about you? Well, this isn't fun. 566 00:47:14,710 --> 00:47:16,430 Well, why do you giggle then, hmm? 567 00:47:17,530 --> 00:47:18,750 Because I'm ticklish. 568 00:47:18,990 --> 00:47:19,990 You're ticklish? 569 00:47:21,790 --> 00:47:23,010 Don't be so skittish. 570 00:47:25,930 --> 00:47:26,930 I'll get up then. 571 00:47:39,290 --> 00:47:42,850 I feel so weak. 572 00:47:44,730 --> 00:47:48,550 It was very, very early on a Sunday morning when... 573 00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:54,800 I was called by Vernon Scott of the UPI, who said, your film has just been banned 574 00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:59,460 by the Catholic Legion of Decency, and Cardinal Spellman has just denounced it 575 00:47:59,460 --> 00:48:03,120 from the pulpit of St. Patrick's Cathedral. What do you have to say? 576 00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:06,000 And I said, which film? 577 00:48:06,900 --> 00:48:11,780 Because it seemed to me that there was nothing as censorable about Babydoll. I 578 00:48:11,780 --> 00:48:16,540 was astounded, because I thought we were doing a rather biblical film. 579 00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:19,680 in the sense that revenge is in the Bible. 580 00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:25,060 If someone commits an outrageous act against you, an eye for an eye and a 581 00:48:25,060 --> 00:48:26,060 tooth for a tooth. 582 00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:30,620 That's what I thought. I didn't think anything about the sexuality of it. 583 00:48:30,910 --> 00:48:35,670 And then, of course, everybody, when the controversy happened, just couldn't 584 00:48:35,670 --> 00:48:40,090 believe it because there we were not only banned and probably one of the most 585 00:48:40,090 --> 00:48:45,370 controversial films of all time, but they had the crib shot the entire block 586 00:48:45,370 --> 00:48:46,850 on Broadway. 587 00:48:47,190 --> 00:48:53,070 And it just, you know, it sort of put more coal on the fire. 588 00:48:54,130 --> 00:48:59,430 Today, it's hard to believe the furor Babydoll caused in the 1950s. when Time 589 00:48:59,430 --> 00:49:03,890 magazine called it, quote, the dirtiest American-made motion picture that has 590 00:49:03,890 --> 00:49:06,150 ever been legally exhibited, end quote. 591 00:49:06,530 --> 00:49:11,730 Oh, I think it's the terrible irony of American films that the censors, both in 592 00:49:11,730 --> 00:49:15,550 Hollywood and in the country at large, were always much more exercised about 593 00:49:15,550 --> 00:49:17,630 sexuality than they were about violence. 594 00:49:18,450 --> 00:49:21,690 Violence became a substitute for sex. I mean, that was where you got your action 595 00:49:21,690 --> 00:49:23,550 and your conflict and your drama and your excitement. 596 00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:39,120 Cut. 597 00:49:39,540 --> 00:49:40,540 That's enough. 598 00:49:40,720 --> 00:49:44,560 It doesn't take a lot of imagination to see why they banned films like Blood 599 00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:47,520 Feast. But sometimes the problems are not quite so clear. 600 00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:52,280 At least that was the case with Peeping Tom, a film that was pulled from 601 00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:54,500 theaters within days of its first release. 602 00:49:55,540 --> 00:49:56,600 Don't be shy. 603 00:49:57,820 --> 00:50:00,600 For me, it's my first time, too. 604 00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:05,100 Directed by Michael Powell, who was known for family classics like The Red 605 00:50:05,100 --> 00:50:10,250 Shoes and Teeth of Baghdad, Peeping Tom told the story of a seemingly shy 606 00:50:10,250 --> 00:50:13,010 individual with some deep-rooted problems. 607 00:50:19,170 --> 00:50:25,250 20 years after its first release, director Martin Scorsese personally 608 00:50:25,250 --> 00:50:26,950 resurrected Peeping Tom. 609 00:50:27,410 --> 00:50:29,930 But at that time, I heard that it was black and white and that it was cut. 610 00:50:31,350 --> 00:50:35,650 I had no idea what, you know, and then later on, I was so involved with the... 611 00:50:36,010 --> 00:50:40,770 My fascination with trying to find older films to preserve them and this idea 612 00:50:40,770 --> 00:50:45,770 where all these directors were in the early 70s when I started to make films 613 00:50:45,770 --> 00:50:48,930 in Hollywood. I got to meet a lot of the directors whom I loved, or at least I 614 00:50:48,930 --> 00:50:51,070 got to see them, talk to them maybe once or twice. 615 00:50:51,750 --> 00:50:58,310 But the one person left that had his name on a number of films that I adored, 616 00:50:58,370 --> 00:51:02,170 and the one person left was Michael Powell. 617 00:51:03,110 --> 00:51:05,790 Not! I want to ask you something rather personal. 618 00:51:06,610 --> 00:51:08,950 How long is it since you've gone out without that? 619 00:51:09,250 --> 00:51:10,069 Without what? 620 00:51:10,070 --> 00:51:11,070 That camera. 621 00:51:12,170 --> 00:51:13,170 Oh. 622 00:51:13,590 --> 00:51:16,010 I don't think I know. 623 00:51:16,250 --> 00:51:20,450 Exactly. I don't think I've ever seen you without it. Then I thought that not 624 00:51:20,450 --> 00:51:24,610 only did they make Thief of Baghdad, I mean, partially direct, but some of the 625 00:51:24,610 --> 00:51:28,490 major scenes directed, The Red Shoes, one of my very favorite films, The Tales 626 00:51:28,490 --> 00:51:31,830 of Hoffman, which taught me a great deal about camera movement and... 627 00:51:32,450 --> 00:51:34,170 the movement of actors inside a frame, 628 00:51:35,130 --> 00:51:40,290 Black Narcissus, Matter of Life and Death, these incredible films. 629 00:51:41,450 --> 00:51:45,510 And having been, I'm also kind of an Anglophile, I like British films, but 630 00:51:45,510 --> 00:51:47,430 these British films were so different from the other British films. 631 00:51:47,930 --> 00:51:50,530 Not only that, but then he made this film Peeping Tom. That's the one that 632 00:51:50,530 --> 00:51:53,550 Jim McBride talked about. That's the one that people claim was kind of dirty and 633 00:51:53,550 --> 00:51:56,870 nasty. And then I heard later on, a few years later, that it was shown after 634 00:51:56,870 --> 00:51:57,870 McBride talked to me about it. 635 00:51:58,750 --> 00:52:00,890 In the early 70s, it was shown at the Museum of Modern Art. 636 00:52:01,170 --> 00:52:03,280 What? how this sees grown-ups. 637 00:52:04,340 --> 00:52:05,460 Me, for instance. 638 00:52:05,700 --> 00:52:06,700 Not you. 639 00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:07,880 Why not? 640 00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:09,920 I will never see you. 641 00:52:10,300 --> 00:52:11,300 Mark. 642 00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:16,660 Whatever I photograph, I always lose. 643 00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:23,080 The hero of the film is not the psychotic crazy that you would think. 644 00:52:23,740 --> 00:52:25,660 He's a very sweet character. 645 00:52:25,900 --> 00:52:29,920 And it's a guy that you seem to identify with, or if not identify with, 646 00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:31,000 sympathize with. 647 00:52:31,130 --> 00:52:33,910 All this filming isn't healthy. 648 00:52:35,050 --> 00:52:36,410 And that you need help. 649 00:52:37,550 --> 00:52:38,550 Get it, Mark. 650 00:52:41,310 --> 00:52:43,030 Why are you putting that light on my face? 651 00:52:46,710 --> 00:52:47,710 Mark? 652 00:52:55,510 --> 00:52:56,730 Please let me finish. 653 00:52:57,690 --> 00:52:58,690 It's for Helen. 654 00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:01,879 What do you mean? 655 00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:02,900 It's for Helen. 656 00:53:04,340 --> 00:53:06,960 She wanted to see something I photographed. 657 00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:10,000 My daughter sees enough of my face without photographs. 658 00:53:10,660 --> 00:53:14,180 Please, don't be frightened. 659 00:53:15,140 --> 00:53:16,140 I'm frightened. 660 00:53:31,050 --> 00:53:34,630 I find that very different from the other approaches of this kind of 661 00:53:34,630 --> 00:53:37,450 material, or a slasher picture or an exploitation picture. 662 00:53:37,810 --> 00:53:39,530 The picture's really not an exploitation film. 663 00:53:39,750 --> 00:53:44,150 I think it was... Michael always says it was a very sweet film. He doesn't 664 00:53:44,150 --> 00:53:45,170 understand what all the problem was. 665 00:53:46,770 --> 00:53:49,430 Do you know what the most frightening thing in the world is? 666 00:53:57,010 --> 00:53:58,010 It's fear. 667 00:54:00,780 --> 00:54:02,080 I did something very simple. 668 00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:05,200 Very simple. 669 00:54:08,740 --> 00:54:15,580 When they felt the spike touching their throat and 670 00:54:15,580 --> 00:54:22,000 knew I was going to kill them, I made them watch their own 671 00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:23,000 deaths. 672 00:54:23,940 --> 00:54:29,540 I made them see their own terror as the spike went in. 673 00:54:30,660 --> 00:54:35,700 And if death has a face, they saw that too. 674 00:54:36,300 --> 00:54:39,260 Right after the film was just shown at the New York Film Festival, right on 675 00:54:39,260 --> 00:54:42,800 television on Fright Night, Channel 9, Fright Night, Friday nights at 1 o'clock 676 00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:45,800 in the morning, you know, a picture of Boris Kulov comes on and you hear a lot 677 00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:47,640 of thunder and lightning and you see Peeping Tom. 678 00:54:48,660 --> 00:54:52,180 And it's the full version, you know, something that was banned 20 years ago. 679 00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:53,940 It's okay to show now on television. It's no problem. 680 00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:55,620 It's madness, total madness. 681 00:54:56,750 --> 00:55:00,930 By the late 60s, Americans got more and more upset about the amount of sex and 682 00:55:00,930 --> 00:55:04,610 violence Hollywood was putting in its films. The motion picture producers 683 00:55:04,610 --> 00:55:08,910 decided it would be best to discard the outdated production code that no one was 684 00:55:08,910 --> 00:55:13,190 listening to and to replace it with what we know today, a classification system, 685 00:55:13,410 --> 00:55:16,370 which I became personally acquainted with right away. 686 00:55:16,730 --> 00:55:20,850 It is designed to inform parents about the suitability of movie content for 687 00:55:20,850 --> 00:55:21,850 viewing by their children. 688 00:55:22,370 --> 00:55:25,890 One of the first films to test the new rating system was Easy Rider. 689 00:55:26,330 --> 00:55:31,110 which starred Dennis Hopper, myself, and newcomer Jack Nicholson. Easy Rider was 690 00:55:31,110 --> 00:55:35,610 a document of the changing times, and believe me, after the 1960s, nothing 691 00:55:35,610 --> 00:55:36,610 remained the same. 692 00:55:36,710 --> 00:55:39,590 Easy Rider had everything the establishment feared. 693 00:55:39,910 --> 00:55:44,130 Sex, violence, rock and roll, and drugs. 694 00:56:29,860 --> 00:56:33,920 Easy Rider was one of the first conventional movies to show drug use. 695 00:56:34,420 --> 00:56:37,840 That's not to say that people hadn't been making movies about drugs. 696 00:56:38,100 --> 00:56:39,300 Quite the opposite. 697 00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:44,620 These high school boys and girls are having a hop at the local soda fountain. 698 00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:46,620 Innocently, they dance. 699 00:56:47,420 --> 00:56:51,920 innocent of a new and deadly menace lurking behind closed doors. 700 00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:57,200 Marijuana, the burning weed with its roots in hell. 701 00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:04,360 In this film, you will see the ease with which this vicious plant can be grown in 702 00:57:04,360 --> 00:57:09,220 your neighbor's yard, rolled into harmless-looking cigarettes, hidden in 703 00:57:09,220 --> 00:57:11,560 an innocent shoe or watch case. 704 00:57:11,980 --> 00:57:14,380 If you want a good film, try one of these. 705 00:57:14,700 --> 00:57:16,120 You will meet Bill. 706 00:57:16,730 --> 00:57:21,350 who wants to pride in his strong will as he takes the first step toward 707 00:57:21,350 --> 00:57:22,450 enslavement. 708 00:57:37,190 --> 00:57:42,530 Smoking the soul-destroying reaper, they find a moment's pleasure, but at a 709 00:57:42,530 --> 00:57:43,530 terrible price. 710 00:57:44,090 --> 00:57:45,090 Divorce me! 711 00:57:48,980 --> 00:57:50,780 Murder. Suicide. 712 00:57:51,700 --> 00:57:55,200 And the ultimate end of the marijuana addict. 713 00:57:57,000 --> 00:57:58,620 Hopeless insanity. 714 00:58:06,900 --> 00:58:09,480 See this important film now. 715 00:58:11,180 --> 00:58:14,080 Before it is too late. 716 00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:23,600 When it was first produced back in the 1930s, Reefer Madness was banned in many 717 00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:26,840 states for its bold exhibition of drug use and racy sex. 718 00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:30,900 Of course, that didn't stop these low-budget roadshow artists who went 719 00:58:30,900 --> 00:58:35,100 city by city showing their films in small theaters and leaving before the 720 00:58:35,100 --> 00:58:36,100 cops could come. 721 00:58:36,180 --> 00:58:39,480 The filmmakers probably never dreamt that Reefer Madness would become a hit 722 00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:42,600 in the 1960s, and it was not the only one. 723 00:58:43,220 --> 00:58:47,540 After the success of Reefer Madness, exhibitors went back to the film vaults 724 00:58:47,760 --> 00:58:52,160 for another camp classic, Cocaine Fiends. We're looking for a guy that's 725 00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:55,540 been peddling dope to school kids. I'm going to take you on a sleigh ride with 726 00:58:55,540 --> 00:58:56,540 some snowbirds. 727 00:58:56,960 --> 00:58:57,960 Sleigh ride? 728 00:58:58,360 --> 00:59:00,220 Snowbirds? In the summer? 729 00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:02,420 Gosh, you are dumb. 730 00:59:02,860 --> 00:59:03,860 Yes, Frank. 731 00:59:04,100 --> 00:59:05,100 Sleigh ride. 732 00:59:05,540 --> 00:59:11,660 Snowbird. This is the gutter slang of the Cocaine Fiends. Say, I know a fella 733 00:59:11,660 --> 00:59:14,760 that could put you on a show right away. In this film, you will meet Jane 734 00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:19,060 Bradford. Maddox, got a headache? She's a young and innocent cocktail waitress. 735 00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:22,180 Jane Bradford is about to lose that innocence. 736 00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:24,880 I got the grandest headache medicine in the world. 737 00:59:25,500 --> 00:59:26,600 Yes, Jane. 738 00:59:27,260 --> 00:59:28,280 Headache medicine. 739 00:59:29,300 --> 00:59:30,640 Why, that's marvelous. 740 00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:33,020 I feel better already. 741 00:59:33,620 --> 00:59:38,640 This is the startling expose of youngsters sucked into the white powder 742 00:59:38,640 --> 00:59:39,640 whirlpool. 743 01:00:25,960 --> 01:00:30,420 The 60s were no better captured on film than in Woodstock, the 1968 documentary 744 01:00:30,420 --> 01:00:32,160 on the legendary music festival. 745 01:00:33,220 --> 01:00:37,400 Woodstock's candid look at drugs, the Vietnam War, and the lifestyles of this 746 01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:40,640 generation found a popular audience throughout America. 747 01:00:41,080 --> 01:00:45,960 It also incurred the wrath of censors and police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, who 748 01:00:45,960 --> 01:00:48,240 denied theater entry to the town's youth. 749 01:01:00,870 --> 01:01:04,690 We'll be right back. 750 01:01:23,920 --> 01:01:26,860 Even with the new rating system, censorship didn't disappear. 751 01:01:27,220 --> 01:01:31,600 In the 1970s, the major battles just moved from Hollywood to the hinterlands, 752 01:01:31,840 --> 01:01:35,720 with local censors condemning two of the biggest films to come out during the 753 01:01:35,720 --> 01:01:36,720 decade. 754 01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:42,180 Taxi Driver caused a heated battle over its classification with the rating board 755 01:01:42,180 --> 01:01:44,180 at war with director Scorsese. 756 01:01:44,480 --> 01:01:45,480 You talking to me? 757 01:01:47,980 --> 01:01:49,340 You talking to me? 758 01:01:52,620 --> 01:01:53,620 Talking to me? 759 01:01:56,440 --> 01:01:58,820 Then who the hell else are you talking to? Talking to me? 760 01:02:00,400 --> 01:02:01,640 Well, I'm the only one here. 761 01:02:04,100 --> 01:02:06,600 Who the fuck do you think you're talking to? 762 01:02:08,240 --> 01:02:09,420 Fuck out of here, man. 763 01:02:09,640 --> 01:02:10,640 Get out of here. 764 01:02:11,580 --> 01:02:12,580 Fuck on this. 765 01:02:15,200 --> 01:02:19,260 The biggest problem I had with censorship was the ratings board issue 766 01:02:19,260 --> 01:02:21,480 on the taxi driver. 767 01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:25,180 The problem was violence and open sexuality, they claimed. 768 01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:29,280 For me, the violence was very honest. 769 01:02:30,100 --> 01:02:32,500 It was very honest and it was filled. It was an explosion of rage. 770 01:02:33,640 --> 01:02:35,000 And that was the only way I could do it. 771 01:02:52,620 --> 01:02:56,400 The color of the blood was so red, so vibrant, that it made it seem to me like 772 01:02:56,400 --> 01:02:58,620 fake blood. So I thought, well, I got an idea. Why don't we tone down the color, 773 01:02:58,660 --> 01:02:59,920 and that'll take away some of the shock effect. 774 01:03:01,080 --> 01:03:05,400 But in actuality, what happened was that it made it worse, and that was the idea. 775 01:03:05,580 --> 01:03:09,700 The idea was to make it stronger, and you make it stronger by, in a sense, at 776 01:03:09,700 --> 01:03:14,420 that time, reflecting the tabloid image, an image on like a daily news, New York 777 01:03:14,420 --> 01:03:17,320 Daily News, images on the front page of violence and that sort of thing, so that 778 01:03:17,320 --> 01:03:20,800 it became even more, in my mind, it became a little more difficult to take. 779 01:03:21,340 --> 01:03:25,460 Violence wasn't the only controversial issue affecting the censors. In carnal 780 01:03:25,460 --> 01:03:28,000 knowledge, the censorship issue was simply sex. 781 01:03:35,320 --> 01:03:37,520 Why, mister, why is it more? 782 01:03:37,840 --> 01:03:41,840 The script, written by Jules Feiffer, was rich with four-letter words and 783 01:03:41,840 --> 01:03:42,840 sexual encounters. 784 01:03:43,240 --> 01:03:47,740 This prompted the Georgia police to seize the film and arrest the local 785 01:03:47,740 --> 01:03:50,480 theater manager for distributing obscene material. 786 01:03:51,340 --> 01:03:55,240 A local jury found him guilty, and the Georgia Supreme Court upheld the 787 01:03:55,240 --> 01:03:58,880 conviction. The case finally went to the U.S. Supreme Court, where it was 788 01:03:58,880 --> 01:03:59,880 overturned. 789 01:04:02,080 --> 01:04:03,920 Sandy, please take your hand off my breast. 790 01:04:04,360 --> 01:04:06,140 Why? Because I want you to. 791 01:04:10,020 --> 01:04:13,080 How could it be any fun for you if you know I don't want it? I didn't say it 792 01:04:13,080 --> 01:04:14,080 was fun. 793 01:04:14,940 --> 01:04:16,440 Then why your hand where it is? 794 01:04:17,280 --> 01:04:20,140 Because the way we're going, by this time I should be feeling you up. 795 01:04:26,700 --> 01:04:28,100 I don't feel that way about you, Sandy. 796 01:04:29,380 --> 01:04:31,160 That brings us to our last story. 797 01:04:31,740 --> 01:04:36,040 During the Christmas of 1985, a movie hit the screens that would generate a 798 01:04:36,040 --> 01:04:37,480 national grassroots uprising. 799 01:04:38,320 --> 01:04:43,120 Silent Night, Deadly Night presented a homicidal maniac who was disguised as 800 01:04:43,120 --> 01:04:47,960 none other than Santa Claus, upsetting not just church groups, but a wide range 801 01:04:47,960 --> 01:04:52,400 of Americans throughout the entire country who simultaneously demanded that 802 01:04:52,400 --> 01:04:53,400 film be pulled. 803 01:04:59,820 --> 01:05:05,700 But the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was 804 01:05:05,700 --> 01:05:11,220 stirring, not even a mouse, the stockings were hung by the chimney with 805 01:05:11,220 --> 01:05:17,500 care in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there. 806 01:06:05,200 --> 01:06:06,400 Brian survived Christmas. 807 01:06:07,580 --> 01:06:08,580 Silent night. 808 01:06:09,640 --> 01:06:10,640 Deadly night. 809 01:06:10,860 --> 01:06:16,260 It was withdrawn in all the theaters except the few that refused to return it 810 01:06:16,260 --> 01:06:18,360 because the business was so good that they just wouldn't. 811 01:06:18,800 --> 01:06:22,080 Almost all the theaters had contracts to play it for five weeks. 812 01:06:22,520 --> 01:06:26,500 They could play it as little as two weeks, but they had the right to play it 813 01:06:26,500 --> 01:06:27,500 for five. 814 01:06:27,920 --> 01:06:32,760 And my understanding, and again, you get to hearsay because unless you're sitting 815 01:06:32,760 --> 01:06:37,680 in the office where the phone rings, You don't know. My understanding was that it 816 01:06:37,680 --> 01:06:42,040 was withdrawn at the request of the studio from almost all of them. I know 817 01:06:42,040 --> 01:06:45,400 at least in Boston and Buffalo that they refused to return it because in Boston 818 01:06:45,400 --> 01:06:49,820 they were doing standing room only for the full five weeks. The film was re 819 01:06:49,820 --> 01:06:53,420 -released the next year with two substantial changes. 820 01:06:53,800 --> 01:06:58,360 Gone was the reference to Santa, and the new publicity campaign featured the fact 821 01:06:58,360 --> 01:07:02,140 that it had been banned throughout the country. A movie that shocked America. 822 01:07:03,820 --> 01:07:08,700 hollywood and frightened the government the movie they tried to ban you've read 823 01:07:08,700 --> 01:07:15,600 about it you've heard about it now you can see it in all its terrifying horror 824 01:07:15,600 --> 01:07:22,480 silent night deadly night the movies as i've often said spent 60 years saying 825 01:07:22,480 --> 01:07:26,640 they lived happily ever after suddenly the movies began to say you'll be lucky 826 01:07:26,640 --> 01:07:32,160 to get through the weekend i think the lack of censorship of some kind of 827 01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:36,360 Guidelines some kind of controls or something gives you less freedom not 828 01:07:36,360 --> 01:07:40,260 more freedom freedom because what happens is now the things that you 829 01:07:40,260 --> 01:07:46,220 weren't allowed to do now become Obligatory I mean if you have to get in 830 01:07:46,220 --> 01:07:49,560 it and it's on the screen they have to chew on each other's mouths You know 831 01:07:49,560 --> 01:07:56,540 they have you have to throw in Blood you have to throw in Brains blowing out 832 01:07:56,540 --> 01:08:00,460 you know in films are at least people distributing films 833 01:08:01,640 --> 01:08:07,440 feel that that's the case Roger Corman had an incredible way of Formula making 834 01:08:07,440 --> 01:08:11,060 up a formula for his pictures. There's exploitation films and in boxcar 835 01:08:11,060 --> 01:08:16,800 birthday. He told me remember every 15 pages nudity Pages that yeah in the 836 01:08:16,800 --> 01:08:22,880 script and whether it's a leg Full nudity or maybe just the suggestion of 837 01:08:22,880 --> 01:08:26,819 nudity, but every 15 pages. You got to keep that interest going I think it'd be 838 01:08:26,819 --> 01:08:29,399 a whole lot better if everybody were naked and didn't shoot each other 839 01:08:30,620 --> 01:08:35,200 And get rid of the guns and the knives and the violence you know Everything had 840 01:08:35,200 --> 01:08:41,120 to be way up here, and if it wasn't then you had to have little netting you know 841 01:08:41,120 --> 01:08:46,880 put in Never never never not even a shadow Which is very unrealistic and 842 01:08:46,880 --> 01:08:50,800 pretty stupid, but on the other hand I like it a lot better than what's going 843 01:08:50,800 --> 01:08:51,800 on today 844 01:08:52,060 --> 01:08:55,600 You can have something up to here, and I mean, you know, people have x-ray eyes. 845 01:08:55,840 --> 01:08:58,160 They want to think of something, they're going to think of it anyway. 846 01:08:58,600 --> 01:09:02,899 I think it's outrageous that every argument settled on television today is 847 01:09:02,899 --> 01:09:03,899 settled with a weapon. 848 01:09:04,560 --> 01:09:10,960 That the only solution to any argument or discussion between people is with 849 01:09:10,960 --> 01:09:13,279 violence. I am appalled by that. 850 01:09:13,550 --> 01:09:19,069 Who is so smart or so bright or so intelligent that they are capable of 851 01:09:19,069 --> 01:09:23,290 telling the rest of us what we should think, what we should see, or that we're 852 01:09:23,290 --> 01:09:28,170 not mature enough to handle certain subjects? I think that's totally 853 01:09:28,170 --> 01:09:29,170 ridiculous. 854 01:09:40,140 --> 01:09:45,200 Don't show that. I'll have to call the censor on you. Don't wear that. 855 01:09:45,600 --> 01:09:47,040 Don't read that. 856 01:09:47,460 --> 01:09:52,779 Don't touch that. I'll have to call the censor on you. You're too hot. We're 857 01:09:52,779 --> 01:09:53,779 gonna get caught. 858 01:09:54,100 --> 01:09:56,660 Cause you're too hot to handle. 859 01:09:58,180 --> 01:10:01,040 You're too hot. You show up a lot. 860 01:10:01,360 --> 01:10:07,280 But you keep it up. My mama's gonna make me change the channel. No, no, no, no, 861 01:10:07,460 --> 01:10:08,460 no, no. 862 01:10:10,160 --> 01:10:13,080 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 863 01:10:49,580 --> 01:10:52,400 You're too hot. We're gonna get caught. 864 01:10:52,740 --> 01:10:55,340 Cause you're too hot to handle. 865 01:10:56,780 --> 01:10:59,700 You're too hot. Like to show off a lot. 866 01:11:00,040 --> 01:11:03,780 But you keep it up. My mom is gonna make me change the channel. 867 01:11:04,420 --> 01:11:05,840 Don't make that. 868 01:11:06,200 --> 01:11:07,720 Don't take that. 869 01:11:08,040 --> 01:11:09,300 Don't shake that. 870 01:11:09,560 --> 01:11:11,600 Gonna call a censor on you. 871 01:11:11,820 --> 01:11:13,300 Don't hold that. 872 01:11:13,520 --> 01:11:15,060 Don't take that. 873 01:11:15,360 --> 01:11:19,000 Don't bring that. I'm gonna call a censor on you. 874 01:11:19,420 --> 01:11:20,600 Don't say that. 875 01:11:21,120 --> 01:11:22,360 Don't say that. 876 01:11:22,940 --> 01:11:27,860 Don't do that. I'm gonna call the system on you. 877 01:11:28,100 --> 01:11:33,900 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 878 01:12:28,240 --> 01:12:34,500 We're all alone, no chaperone can get our number. The world's in slumber. 879 01:12:34,760 --> 01:12:36,260 Let's misbehave. 880 01:12:36,900 --> 01:12:40,800 There's something wild about you, child, that's so contagious. 881 01:12:41,660 --> 01:12:43,260 Let's be outrageous. 882 01:12:43,680 --> 01:12:45,360 Let's misbehave. 883 01:12:46,520 --> 01:12:50,020 When Adam won his hand, he wouldn't stand for teasing. 884 01:12:50,460 --> 01:12:54,440 He didn't care about those apples out of season. 885 01:12:54,800 --> 01:12:59,280 They say the spring means just one thing to little lovebirds. 886 01:12:59,720 --> 01:13:01,700 We're not above birds. 887 01:13:02,000 --> 01:13:03,200 Let's misbehave. 888 01:13:14,940 --> 01:13:16,740 Let's misbehave.