The topic of the Hays Code and the creation of the MPAA can be interesting material to the movie nerd crowd. This release has a corny, but obviously newer piece of cover art disguising the poor 1980’s production value revealing when this was originally released. If you’re already deeply interested in the subject, there are a couple of high points where some clips that were filmed exclusively for foreign market release prints of American films are shown, though the quality is tremendously poor for those clips (really almost all of the clips, including those from existing film elements, look pretty bad). This is more of a clip style cursory glance at the subject hosted by Douglas Fairbanks Jr and for a minute by the typically embarrassing Peter Fonda. Strangely, this feels like a made for broadcast television “special”, but then features violence and nudity that clearly demonstrates that this couldn’t have been the intent. Kirby Dick’s This Film Is Not Yet Rated and TCM’s Forbidden Hollywood collection are better and more interesting reference points for the subject.
Hollywood Uncensored
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