Motion pictures classified by National Legion of Decency (1959)

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Tide and Distributor Rating Year of Review One Way Passage (Warners) A-II 1936-37 One Way Street (Universal-International) B 1949-50 Objection: This picture tends to condone illicit actions and presents in part a fatalistic concept of life. One Way Ticket (Columbia) A-II 1936-37 One Way to Love (Columbia) A-II 1945-46 One Wild Night (20th Century-Fox) A-II 1937-38 One Woman's Story (J. Arthur Rank-UI) B 1948-49 Objection: Reflects the acceptability of divorce. Onionhead (War.) B 1957-58 Objection: Suggestive sequences. Only Angels Have Wings (Columbia) A-II 1938-39 Only the Valiant (Warners) A-II 1950-51 Open City (Cita Aperta) (Italian) (Minerva Films-Mayer-Burs tyn) B 1945-46 Objection: Deceit sympathetically treated; excessive gruesome ness; suggestive costume and implications; use of narcotics. Open Secret (Eagle Lion) A-II 1947-48 Opened by Mistake (Paramount) A-I 1939-40 Operation Dames (Am. Intl.) A-III 1958-59 Operation Disaster (British) (Universal-International) A-I 1950-51 Operation Haylift (Lippert Prod.) A-I 1949-50 Operation Mad Ball (Col.) A-I 1956-57 Operation Manhunt (United Artists) A-I 1953-54 Operation Murder (UA) A-II 1956-57 Operation Pacific (Warners) B 1950-51 Objection: Reflects the acceptability of divorce. Operation Secret (Warners) B 1952-53 Objection: Tends to portray suicide sympathetically. Operation X (British) (Columbia) A-II 1950-51 Opernball (German) (Wien Film) A-II 1947-48 Opposite Sex (MGM) B 1956-57 Objection: Reflects the acceptability of divorce together with a light treatment of marriage; suggestive costuming, dialogue and situations. Ora Ponciano (Spanish) (Soria) A-II 1936-37 Orchestra Wives (20th Century-Fox) B 1941-42 Objection: Light treatment of marriage. Ordet (Danish) (Kingsley) A-III 1957-58 Observation: The miracle, upon which the plot solution of this film depends, is presented, not as a divine approbation of a religious sect, but as a divine reward of the faith of an individual in God. The possibility of such a miracle is in conformity with Catholic belief. Orders from Tokyo (AFE) A-II 1943-44 Oregon Passage (AA) A-II 1957-58 Oregon Trail (Republic) A-I 1944-45 Oregon Trail (Fox) A-I 1958-59 Oriental Evil (Classic Pictures) A-II 1952-53 Orphan Boy of Vienna, An (Singende Jugend) (German) (Meterofilm-General Foreign Sales) A-I 1936-37 Orphans of the North (Monogram) A-I 1939-40 172