Motion pictures classified by National Legion of Decency (1959)

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Title and Distributor Rating Year of Review Three Faces of Eve (Fox) B 1956-57 Objection: Suggestive costuming, dialogue and situations; reflects the acceptability of divorce. Three Faces West (Republic) A-I 1939-40 Three for Bedroom C (Warners) A-II 1951-52 Three for the Show (Columbia) B 1954-55 Objection: This film contains a frivolous treatment of marriage and flippant attitudes toward purity, together with suggestive situations, indecent costuming and dancing. Three for Jamie Dawn (AA) A-II 1955-56 Three Forbidden Stories (Italian) (Ellis Films) C 1953-54 Objection: This picture, in the three stories it tells, seriously offends Christian and traditional standards of morality and decency by reason of gross suggestiveness in situations and costuming. Moreover, it portrays with undue intensity material morally unsuitable in entertainment motion pictures theatres. Three Girls About Town (Columbia) B 1941-42 Objection: Suggestive implications. Three Girls from Rome (IFE Releasing Corp.) A-II 1952-53 Three Godfathers (MGM) A-I 1936-37 Three Godfathers (MGM) B 1948-49 Objection: Suicide sympathetically portrayed. Three Guys Named Mike (MGM) A-II 1950-51 Three Hearts (Trzy Serca) (Polish) (Fenix Film Co.-Polish American Film Corp.) B 1941-42 Objection: Divorce and remarriage in plot solution. Three Hearts for Julia (MGM) B 1942-43 Objection: Reflects the acceptability of divorce. Three Hours to Kill (Columbia) A-II 1953-54 Three Husbands (United Artists) B 1949-50 Objection: Light treatment of marriage; reflects the acceptability of divorce. Three in the Saddle (Producers Releasing Corp.) A-I 1944-45 Three Is a Family (United Artists) A-II 1944-45 Three Little Girls in Blue (20th Century-Fox) A-I 1945-46 Three Little Sisters (Republic) A-I 1943-44 Three Little Words (MGM) A-I 1949-50 Three Live Ghosts (MGM) A-I 1936-37 Three Loves Has Nancy (MGM) A-II 1937-38 Three Married Men (Paramount) A-II 1936-37 Three Men from Texas (Paramount) A-I 1939-40 Three Men in a Boat (Br.) (Roach) A-III 1958-59 Three Men in White (MGM) A-I 1943-44 Three Men on a Horse (First National) B 1936-37 Three Mesquiteers, The (Republic) A-I 1936-37 Three Murderesses (Was: Women Are Weak) (Fr.) (Graetz) B 1958-59 Objection: Suggestive costuming. Three Musketeers (20th Century-Fox) A-II 1938-39 Three Musketeers, The (MGM) B 1947-48 Objection: Suggestive sequences. Three Musketeers, The (Hal Roach, Jr., Prod.) A-II 1952-53 Three of a Kind (Invincible) A-I 1936-37 241