European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Porfie 16 the stars and stripes monday August 24, frankness gets an assist from the supreme court How far can Hollywood go in its Pursuit of Shock editor s note the growing popularity of adult themes in motion pictures and recent Lega decisions against censorship have raised new questions of propriety for Hollywood. Here is the first of a two part report by John Finlayson Orfi american newspaper Alliance Hollywood the big ques Tion in Hollywood today is How far can you go with the movie morals code operating plastically and the court dealing crushing Legal blows to official censorship Hollywood is not waiting for the answer. It is a Olive full Speed ahead on daring new themes the subject matter of which might Shock eve the free thinker of the roaring 20s.Shock Impact has to a Large extent replaced Star value at thebon office and movie makers Are planning amazingly Frank movies. "a1 a n d m a rec in Hollywood s break from its code bound Pastis Anatomy of a murder based on Michigan state supreme court Justice John d. Voelker s Best Selling novel. Anatomy recently released is probably the Frank est Hollywood film to Date. Its courtroom sequences speak freely and open Lyon the subject of rape in a murder trial. An accompaniment to Holly Wood s new Freedom has been the copy that a number of movie fathers and sons team up on Halsey film James Cagney made up for his role As the late Fleet adm William f. Halsey in the film the Gallant hours adjusts the helmet of Robert Montgomery jr., As the youngster s father does the same for Cagney s son James or. Montgomery senior is director of the Halsey film in which the Tiyo portray marines a role familiar to Young. Cagney. He s on a 4-year hitch. Up photo question was honest Hal March by North american newspaper alliances new York the worst that happened on our program said Hal March the Man who did the asking for 3% Vears on Tele vision s "$64, Edo,5iiestioni" is that people won some March was Dis cussing the re Vived to quiz show controversy the other night in his creasing room at the Booth theater where he is co starring with Leegrant in two for the Seesaw " March if there was Amy Monkey Busi operation that i m sure i would have known about it. The questions were All hard at least to me. At first Well for the first 2% years i did t see the questions until we were on the air. After that i did. Public can t be fooled remember those contestants weren t actors. If they d have been Given the answers Well they could t have fooled the Public. You can t fool people on television like you could on radio. Professional actors might be Able to get away with it but amateurs would not have a sea Jeung of acting. March says that although he is grateful for Tolfe Fame and big pay checks he received on -"$64,000 question lie ,0 be Bank on the legitimate stage where you have to be by Williams a Ohma i that in t ad�1ui? his Ueck a he 5 Ati right it a too hot last wi6ht, amp he put that rope Croump his Waist to keep him from supim6offthe porch Able to do it s a strange feeling he continued to know that a lot of people believe i was discovered on that quiz program. Maybe i was. But i d been knocking around in show business for 18 years before i Ever heard of $64,000 March now 39, got the theatrical Bug when he played the Lead in a High school operetta in san Francisco at the age of 12. By Roger Price up -b-24 disguised flying sauce passing Over Scotland at last Friday s meeting of the , flying Saucer spotters of Terra it was suggested by our a o n o r a b 1 e president or. Schwine that we Institute an Exchange spotters of Terra program for the purpose of familiarizing the europeans with our spotting methods and vice versa. Needless to say this idea met with approval from ail the members which immediately prompted or. Schwine to make a motion that we begin by arranging our 4prst Exchange with France and Exchange mrs. Schwine Lor Brigitte Jardot. Later after things had quieted Down and we had or. S. Patched up and resting comfortably mrs. Schwine brought up the Exchange spotters Tapie Onee again and after a Robin we u we to twi my noted it every we of exploiters seek to use in their newspaper ads. These blurbs some suggesting sex and violence often have been applied to movies that actually were conventional even innocuous in theme. The outcry against sexed up often misleading Filev ads has been insistent More so in fact than the outcry against the films themselves. The temptation to View sex As a Best seller is Strong. Holly Wood exploiters cite the and Campaign for Brigitte Bardot s films arid the Box office take of these films. If they can get away with it we have nothing left but to follow the same line they say. How far have films travelled away from the self governing code voluntarily accepted by the. Mem Bers of1 the motion picture associa-1 lion under which it has lived for1 so Many years a Veteran Hollywood reporter recalls such dialog As the follow ing being censored in films of 1939 what kind of knots would you use to diaper a baby Tell her to get the Devil out of would you mind if i get into something More comfortable Here Are a few scenes in films of the same year deemed censor Able Thomas Mitchell thumbing his nose in stage Adolphe Menjou putting a tape measure around a girl s thigh Ronald Cai Man pulling a bloodstained Dagger from a Man s body. All tame by today s standards. 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