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...pastors of churches in his archdiocese, denounced the picture as "an occasion of sin" and as violating "standards of morality and decency." Cardinal Spellman urged Catholics to boycott it when it opens at two Manhattan theaters on July 9. The movie industry's self-censoring agency-the Production Code Administration-has refused it a seal of approval, which has made it difficult in the past for a picture to play the large theater circuits.* On the other hand, the movie has been approved by the National Board of Review and four (New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Massachusetts...
Since advance showings of the movie have indicated that it will be a commercial success, the odds are that it will manage to get many theater bookings even without a Production Code seal and in spite of church objections. A German-language version called Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach (The Virgin on the Roof), which was shot simultaneously in Hollywood, will be shown in Germany soon...
...last big Hollywood censorship case involved The Outlaw, which was shown briefly without a Production Code seal in 1941 and again in 1946. After years of wrangling, Producer Howard Hughes tidied up the film (and his ads) and received an official purity seal in 1949. **Others now shooting: The Littlest Show on Earth, an Italian 3-D spoof of Cecil B. De-Mille's 1951 circus epic, The Greatest Show on Earth: Public Enemy No. i, a lampoon of Hollywood gangster films, with French Comic Fernandel...
...prefer to turn away from the knobby facts of life, and fall prey to the notion that there must be some great plan or some carefully dovetailed set of plans . . . that is bound to save everybody. Thus there have been waves of enthusiasm for religion as a purely social code, for religion as a distant other-worldly law. and for religion as a sort of snug little hot-water bottle carried in everybody's vest pocket...
...when they refused to answer questions tending to convict them of certain State crimes that committee was investigating. A sense of sportsmanship toward suspected associates is not an excuse: the Fifth Amendment grants no privilege to protect one's friends. If a man feels that he has a persona code compelling this reticence, he must pay for his scrupple by standing the punishment society prescribe...