Censored : the private life of the movie (1930)

Record Details:

Title:
Censored : the private life of the movie
Date:
1930
Publisher:
New York : Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, Incorporated
Volume:
Censored : the private life of the movie
Leaf #:
000113
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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THE SAINTS AT WORK one of the most dramatic and realistic productions ever presented in New York City. Edward Robinson did a superb job as Scarzi, the Chicago gangster, and Louis Wolheim ably followed him in the movie. It was a straight from the shoulder drama of an honest man fighting a ponderous crooked city machine, of his humiliation and subsequent triumph over enormous, corrupt powers. The play dealt not with women, children, or flag-waving. There was not one censorable line in it — that is, not a censorable line unless you hold with the New York board that it is a crime against morality to suggest that the politicians of Chicago or any other city include unscrupulous crooks, and that gangsters of the Al Capone type pay for protection. While the New York board of censors hits hard at suggestions of corruption it is not slow in spotting sexual inferences. From : "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" they changed title: "Oh, my daddy" to read : "Oh, Mr. Eisman." For "You could no more hurt my girl friend's reputation than you could sink the Jewish fleet," they eliminated any reference to the Jews or 71