Motion pictures classified by National Legion of Decency (1959)

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Title and Distributor Rating Where the North Begins (Screen Guild Prod.) A-I Where the Sidewalk Ends (20th Century-Fox) A-II Where the West Begins (Monogram) A-I Where There's a Will (Gaumont-British) A-I Where There's Life (Paramount) A-II Where Trails Divide (Monogram) A-I Where's Charley ? (Warners) A-I Wherever She Goes (British) (Mayer-Kingsley) A-I While New York Sleeps (20th Century-Fox) A-I While the City Sleeps (RKO) B Objection: Suggestive costuming, dialogue and situations. While the Sun Shines (Monogram) B Objection: Suggestive sequences. Whip Hand, The (RKO) A-I Whiplash (Warners) B Objection: Suggestive sequences; tends to present divorce as desirable. Whirlpool (Remous) (French) (Mayer-Burstyn) C Objection: The film in its theme condones marital unfaithfulness. Suicide in plot solution made to appear noble and heroic. The Centrale Catholique du Cinema et da la Radio of Paris has stated that this is a film to be absolutely proscribed. Whirlpool (20th Century-Fox) B Objection: The subject material of this picture is treated in a morally offensive way. Whirlwind (Columbia) ■. , A-I Whirlwind Horseman (Grand National) A-I Whirlwind Raiders (Columbia) A-I Whispering City (Eagle Lion) A-II Whispering Footsteps (Republic) A-II Whispering Ghosts (20th Century-Fox) A-I Whispering Skull, The (Producers Releasing Corp.) A-I Whispering Smith (Paramount) A-I Whispering Smith vs. Scotland Yard (British) (RKO) A-II Whistle at Eaton Falls (Columbia) A-I Whistle Stop (United Artists) B Objection: Suggestive dialogue, sequences and costumes; insufficient moral compensation. Whistler, The (Columbia) A-II Whistling in Brooklyn (MGM) A-I Whistling in Dixie (MGM) A-I Whistling in the Dark (MGM) A-I White Angel (First National) A-I White Banners (Warners) A-I White Bondage (Warners) A-II White Cargo (MGM) B Objection: Suggestive and seductive in sequences, dialogue and costuming. White Christmas (Paramount) A-I White Cliffs, The (MGM) A-I White Fang (20th Century-Fox) A-I White Feather (20th Century-Fox) A-II 264 Year of Review 1947-48 1949-50 1937-38 1936-37 1946-47 1937-38 1951-52 1952-53 1938-39 1955-56 1949-50 1951-52 1948-49 1939-40 1949-50 1950-51 1937-38 1947-48 1947-48 1943-44 1941-42 1944-45 1948-49 1951-52 1950-51 1945-46 1943-44 1942-43 1941-42 1940-41 1936-37 1937-38 1936-37 1942-43 1954-55 1943-44 1936-37 1954-55