Condemned by the Legion of Decency
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This is a list of films condemned by the Legion of Decency, a United States Catholic organization, and its successor (from 1965), the National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures. The condemned (or C) rating was issued from the time of the Legion's formation in 1933 until 1978, when the C rating and the B rating were merged into the new O ("morally offensive") rating. In 1980, the NCOMP film office was shut down, along with the biweekly Review, which had published ratings on 16,251 feature films.
The Legion's ratings were applied to movies made in the United States (which were subject to the Production Code until 1967) as well as those imported from other countries. Beginning in 1968, the ratings were applied in addition to any rating assigned by the MPAA film rating system.
Legion-organized boycotts made a C rating harmful to a film's distribution and profitability. Accordingly, for the majority of years that the rating was applied, most condemned films were made outside of the United States, where their producers didn't have as much to fear from the condemnation. Of the 53 movies the Legion had placed on its condemned list by 1943, only Howard Hughes' The Outlaw came from a major US studio, and it had not been approved by the Production Code or distributed widely.
Despite rumors to the contrary, Elia Kazan's A Streetcar Named Desire and Billy Wilder's The Seven Year Itch did not receive C ratings. Rather, Kazan's film was cut by 4 minutes to avoid condemnation, while Wilder's film had to cut scenes from the original play to be approved by Legion of Decency. [wikipedia]
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Blondie Johnson
1933, in 0 top lists Check -
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Lady Killer
1933, in 1 top list Check -
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This Day and Age
1933, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Women in His Life
1933, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Big Shakedown
1934, in 0 top lists Check -
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Midnight
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Search for Beauty
1934, in 0 top lists Check -
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Whirlpool
1934, in 0 top lists Check -
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Wonder Bar
1934, in 0 top lists Check -
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Strange Cargo
1936, in 0 top lists Check -
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Los olvidados
1950 — a.k.a. The Young and the Damned, in 25 top lists Check -
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Du rififi chez les hommes
1955 — a.k.a. Rififi, in 18 top lists Check -
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Some Like It Hot
1959, in 35 top lists Check -
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À bout de souffle
1960 — a.k.a. Breathless, in 29 top lists Check -
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Deadfall
1968, in 0 top lists Check -
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Lady in Cement
1968, in 1 top list Check -
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The Boston Strangler
1968, in 2 top lists Check -
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Marlowe
1969, in 1 top list Check -
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A Clockwork Orange
1971, in 37 top lists Check -
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The Carey Treatment
1972 — a.k.a. Emergency Ward, in 0 top lists Check -
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Pink Flamingos
1972, in 13 top lists Check -
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Taxi Driver
1976, in 34 top lists Check -
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American Gigolo
1980, in 3 top lists Check
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