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What Shocked the Censors
LAS LUGES DE BUENOS AIRES FEBRUARY, 1932
REEL 7. — Eliminate "Perra". (Translated "Bitch".)
LAST MILE SEPTEMBER, 1932
(Revised)
REEL 7. — "O'Conners! I'm the law now."
"Then we're gonna kill your guards — one after the other. Your brotherin-law is a guard, get me? We're gonna keep on killing 'em until we get that car."
"Lick the floor, you yellow belly. It won't do you any good. / hope I miss you the first time so I'll have to give it to you twice."
REEL 8. — "You got just eight minutes. I'm gcnna give ycu a taste of what we git in here. When that hand reaches seven twenty-five, I'm gonna put a thirty -eight size piece of lead in your head, see?"
"All right, this is my duty — to show the world that I don't like it — to show the world that I object to it. Do you think I wanta die? You think I'm not a human being? You think I don't wanna live? You think it's very nice to wait in that rotten cell — etc."
LAST RIDE JANUARY, 1932
REEL 1. — Eliminate all clear and distinct views of gangsters firing at rival truck, killing driver and two men.
"Do you want him rubbed out?"
"I'll put Big Boy on the spot if you say so."
REEL 3. — Eliminate all views of Piccardi with gun held on Big Boy and accompanying dialogue: "You're going for your last ride."
Eliminate view of Piccardi's gang throwing Big Boy's dead body from speeding auto.
LATIN LOVE AUGUST, 1932
REEL 4. — "You know, you'd much better go to bed. I can talk to you just as well there as any place."
"I've got a much better idea than that. You stop struggling and you wont get bruised."
"Oh, don't be silly and don't try this innocent stuff. Do you think I believe that you and that Italian have done the brother and sister stuff all these years?"
LAUGHTER IN HELL— DECEMBER, 1932
REEL 2. — Eliminate scene where Marybelle picks up hairpins from bed and smoothes pillows. (Intimating infidelity.)
REEL 4. — Eliminate scenes of guards striking at prisoners in cage with whip (2).
Eliminate all views of guards prodding prisoners and flipping their whips at them as they march out of cage to be hung ( 5 ) .
Eliminate all scenes of preparations for and execution of Negro prisoners
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