Sheesh-I remember..


when the Catholic Legion of Decency rated this film an "X"-not for porn reasons, but because the title was in exact contradiction with the Bible-which says the world will end when God returns.
If you were a good, practicing Catholic, you avoided this movie in theater or on TV.

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I thought you were familiar from the comments section. Good to see that you are still around.
BTW, did you ever see the film, and if you did, what did you think of it?

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Say seashellz Where did you get your information?

First of all there was no MPAA rating system in 1956 (it started in 1967-68). Second check this link and see what letters the legion did use
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Legion_of_Decency

If you read the trivia on this feature you'll see that the title comes from a prayer.

Here from the wikipedia site are the films from 1956


And God Created Woman
Baby Doll -- Controversial comedy/drama was approved by the Production Code but condemned by the Legion of Decency.
The Seven Year Itch -- Had to cut scenes from the original play to be approved by Legion of Decency.


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Please note that the first two posts in this thread are over five years old, so I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a response. I was somewhat surprised to see that my original review of this excellent film is more than twelve years old. I made it back when I had my old webtv account.

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Well I can see that but I had to say something to the liar

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Good refutation, vpilutis. But, to be charitable, maybe "shellz" isn't a liar, just confused and uninformed.

Anyway, I'm Catholic (sort of), and I never heard any strictures from the Scriptures against seeing this movie.

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<Good refutation, vpilutis. But, to be charitable, maybe "shellz" isn't a liar, just confused and uninformed.

Anyway, I'm Catholic (sort of), and I never heard any strictures from the Scriptures against seeing this movie.
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I agree, hob; just mistaken. But to clarify: movies weren't around when the Scriptures were written, either, so they couldn't say 'no' to seeing one of our favorite films. Just sayin'.

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Human beings wrote the Bible; human beings interpret it. A lot of self-righteous charlatans make a damn good living suckering the gullible into parting with their money and living their lives the way these fakers tell them to. (Or, in some cases, telling them to kill themselves and others to get their heavenly reward.)

Religion isn't the problem; people are.

Almost like the competing worlds of Naga and Timmek. Interesting, in fact, that the subject of religion never enters into WWE (excluding, tangentially and non-verbally, the cemetary scene); not even a mention of God. They had other things to worry about than battling over whose is "the true faith"...if, indeed, they even had one.

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It appears that my feeble attempt at humor (humour to Catherine) went whistling right past your ear, hob.

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No, gary, I was just in a serious mood. My apologies. But think how many people say you can't dance or play ball or go to the movies because of some self-imagined (or self-invented) religious stricture.

Totally different (albeit WWE) subject: I was just reading the trivia entries and found one where it's said that the director, Edward Bernds, wanted Sterling Hayden, then Frank Lovejoy, for the lead in this film, but that producer Richard Heermance went with Hugh Marlowe because he only asked a quarter of what the others demanded (which sounds like very little). But it then says that Bernds claimed that throughout the shooting Marlowe was often lazy and unprepared. If so, I see no hint of that whatsoever in his performance, and from what I know that would be uncharacteristic of Marlowe. Besides, it's well known that Bernds was very full of himself and often claimed things about himself, his movies, their casts and crew that, to put it mildly, bore little relation to the truth and were largely exercises in self-aggrandizement.

But I was very disappointed to read this stuff!

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I think seashellz is on to something.

Seashellz probably meant the League gave the film a "C" - for "Condemned."

That rating meant that, if you were Catholic, seeing the film amounted to committing a "mortal sin." Confession would be needed before you could receive the sacrament of Communion again.

Serious business here, viewing movies that are/were rated "C".

I remember the list came out monthly, and was posted in my grammar school for all to see. Every Disney movie of course, received an easy "A" rating.

My own recollection of a "C-rated" movie concerns the Billy Wilder comedy "Kiss Me Stupid" (released in the mid-1960s). I remember seeing the title at the bottom of the list - under "Rated C". There were very few movies in that category, since the "C" rating usually amounted to something of an "X" in those days - and major studios were not interested in releasing films that could even be labeled "soft porn" by today's standards.

Which is why when I saw "Kiss Me Stupid" there - a movie which I knew was a major release starring big name stars like Dean Martin and Kim Novak - I couldn't imagine WHY - even HOW - such a Hollywood mainstream film would be considered "smutty" and "dirty" enough to warrant a mortal sin in the event of viewing.

Turns out that "Kiss" made fun of marriage as well as made divorce "acceptable." So of course the League had to put the kibosh on viewing by good Catholics (although I'm sure many Catholics went ahead and saw the movie, using the rationale "I'll go to confession tomorrow to clean my soul up").

Another movie (I think) that was on the "C" list was "Mondo Cane" - an early 60s award-winning documentary which brought to the screen various odd, weird and sometimes gross rituals in various third-world cultures. I think the scene where a man acts out his wife's labor pains was reason the League slapped the film with a "C."

Anyway, given all I've said above, it makes sense that the League would slap a "C" on WWOE because the title was the same as a line said during Sunday Mass: "That's mocking both God and our Faith!!!"


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"Don't call me 'mac'... HONEY!"

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