Motion pictures classified by National Legion of Decency (1959)

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Title and Distributor Rating To Please a Lady (MGM) A-II To the Ends of the Earth (Columbia) A-II To the Shores of Tripoli (20th Century-Fox) A-I To the Victor (Gaumont-British) A-I To the Victor (Warners) B Objection: Low moral tone. Toast of New York (RKO) A-II Toast of New Orleans (MGM) A-I Tobacco Road (20th Century-Fox) B Objection: While recording the appreciation of the changes which have been made in adapting the story material to the screen, the Legion finds the film objectionable in part because of a few suggestive scenes. Tobor, The Great (Republic) A-I Today I Hang (Producers Releasing Corp.) A-II Together Again (Columbia) B Objection: Suggestive incident; suggestive sequence. Tokyo After Dark (Was: Dateline Tokyo) (Para.) A-II Tokyo File 212 (RKO) B Objection: Tends to condone immoral actions. Tokyo Joe (Columbia) B Objection: Reflects the acceptability of divorce. Tokyo Rose (Paramount) A-I Tom Brown's School Days (RKO) A-I Tom Brown's School Days (British) (United Artists) A-I Tom, Dick and Harry (RKO) A-II Tom Sawyer, Detective (Paramount) A-I Tomahawk (Universal-International) A-I Tomahawk Trail (UA) A-II Tomboy (Monogram) A-I Tombstone (Paramount) A-I Tomorrow Is Another Day (Warners) A-II Tomorrow Is Forever (RKO) A-II Observation: Neither the Enoch Arden situation nor the putative marriage, treated in this film, involves the dissolution of the valid marriage bond. Tomorrow Is Too Late (Italian) (Joseph Burstyn) A-II Tomorrow the World (United Artists) A-II Tomorrow We Live (Producers Releasing Corp.) A-II Tom Thumb (MGM) A-I Tonight and Every Night (Saville-Columbia) B Objection: Suggestiveness in song, dance, dialogue and costumes. Tonight at 8:30 (British) (Continental Distributing, Inc.) A-II Tonight We Raid Calais (20th Century-Fox) A-II Tonight We Sing (20th Century-Fox) A-I Tonight's the Night (British) (Allied Artists) A-II Tonka (Buena Vista) A-I Tonto Basin Outlaws (Monogram) A-I Too Bad She's Bad (Ital.-Eng.) (Theatrical & Video Corp.) B Objection: Suggestive costuming, dialogue and situations. Too Busy to Work (20th Century-Fox) A-I 245 Year oi Review 1949-50 1947-48 1941-42 1937-38 1947-48 1936-37 1949-50 1940-41 1953-54 1941-42 1944-45 1957-58 1950-51 1949-50 1945-46 1939-40 1951-52 1940-41 1938-39 1950-51 1956-57 1939-40 1941-42 1950-51 1945-46 1951-52 1944-45 1941-42 1958-59 1944-45 1952-53 1942-43 1952-53 1954-55 1958-59 1941-42 1955-56 1939-40