Motion pictures classified by National Legion of Decency (1959)

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Title and Distributor Rating Year oi Review Minstrel Man (Producers Releasing Corp.) A-I Mioche, Le (Forty Little Mothers) (French) (A. d'Aguier-Na tional Pictures) A-II Miracle (War.) A-II Miracle in Harlem (Herald Pictures) (Screen Guild Prod.) A-II Miracle in Milan (Italian) (Joseph Burstyn) A-II Miracle in the Rain (War.) A-II Miracle Kid, The (Producers Releasing Corp.) A-II Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (Warners) A-I Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The (Paramount) B Objection: Light treatment of marriage; reflects the acceptability of divorce. Miracle of St. Therese (Was: Trial at the Vatican) (Ellis) A-I Miracle of the Bells, The (RKO) A-I Miracle of the Hills (Fox) l A-I Miracle on Main Street (Columbia) B Objection: Suggestive dialogue and scenes; divorce as part of plot solution. Miracle on 34th Street (20th Century-Fox) B Objection: Reflects the acceptability of divorce. Miracles for Sale (MGM) A-II Miraculous Journey (Film Classics, Inc.) A-I Miranda (J. Arthur Rank-Eagle Lion) B Objection: Suggestive situations and dialogue. Mirror Has Two Faces (Fr.) (Continental) A-III Misbehaving Husbands (Producers Releasing Corp.) B Objection: Reflects acceptability of divorce. Notation: This film has been advertised in an objectionable manner and has been exhibited with a Condemned picture. Miserables, Les (French) (Franco -American Film) A-II Miss Annie Rooney (United Artists) A-I Miss Grant Takes Richmond (Columbia) A-II Miss Julie (Swedish) (Trans-Global Pictures, Inc.) C Objection: This picture in the story it tells condones illicit actions. Moreover, in treatment it seriously offends Christian and traditional standards of morality and decency. Miss Mink of 1949 (20th Century-Fox) A-II Miss Polly (United Artists) A-II Miss Robinson Crusoe (20th Century-Fox) A-II Miss Sadie Thompson (Columbia) B Objection: Suggestive situations, costuming and dialogue. Miss Susie Slagle's (Paramount) A-I Miss Tatlock's Millions (Paramount) B Objection: Suggestive sequences; tends to condone immoral actions. Miss V from Moscow (Producers Releasing Corp.) A-I Missile to the Moon (Astor) B Objection: Suggestive costuming. Missing Corpse, The (Producers Releasing Corp.) A-II Missing Daughters (Columbia) B Missing Evidence (Universal) A-I 152 1943-44 1938-39 1958-59 1947-48 1951-52 1955-56 1941-42 1951-52 1943-44 1957-58 1947-48 1958-59 1939-40 1946-47 1938-39 1947-48 1948-49 1958-59 1941-42 1936-37 1941-42 1948-49 1951-52 1948-49 1941-42 1953-54 1953-54 1945-46 1947-48 1941-42 1958-59 1944-45 1938-39 1938-39