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Going Home, the movie that opens with this scene, is rated GP (parental guidance advised), presumably because it contains no nudity and little cussing. Such things, according to the Motion Picture Association of America, traumatize young minds. The murder of a mother apparently does not. The rating is only one of many piquant curiosities about Going Home. Another is how it ever got made. Except for the above scene, the script by Lawrence B. Marcus is the sort of thing that might have shown up years ago on Philco TV Playhouse as "strong adult drama." Indeed, the director-producer...
...office. Doubleday's Robert Banker, however, insists: "Our rule is going to be that we will produce things that will entertain and be provocative." Says G.E.'s Moore: "We just would not be interested in producing R and X pictures. But, more important, G and GP are where the long-range values in the negatives exist. They are products with longevity...
...from her neck. The board wanted to rate the film either R (anyone under 17 restricted unless accompanied by parent or guardian) or X (forbidden entirely to those under 17 or, in some places, 18). The studio agreed to cut some of the bloodier footage and finally won a GP rating. What remained under the GP label included a shortened version of the jugular orgasm and one character eating...
...hard-drug scene called Clay Pigeons got a fast X, largely for using a four-letter word and several scenes of full female frontal nudity. Novice Director Tom Stern removed most, but not all, of the nudity and obscenity. The rating was changed to R. Stern tried for a GP, but the board balked at a bloody ax murder...
...presumably for some scenes of nudity and scattered obscenities. The result was that some kids who went to the festival by themselves needed their parents to get into the movie. Gimme Shelter, a documentary about the Rolling Stones, also received an R originally, but was given a GP after the distributor excised a few familiar expletives from the sound track...