samisdatin (@samisdatin)

i saw a classic movie last night, Black Narcissus, it was great on so many levels, especially for its time (1947) and the way it was filmed (in studio) and I feel like re-watching it today. It was censored in the USA. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039192/ "Legion of Decency condemnation In the United States, the Catholic National Legion of Decency (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Legion_of_Decency) condemned the film as "an affront to religion and religious life" for characterising it as "an escape for the abnormal, the neurotic and the frustrated". The version of the film originally shown in the United States had scenes depicting flashbacks of Sister Clodagh's life before becoming a sister edited out at the behest of the Legion of Decency. The 10 cuts to the film, of about 900 feet of film, were supervised by Pressburger, who commented that the cuts were "reasonable, fair and just", and that he made them to further the film's distribution, as the only bookings it had while on the "condemned" list were in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. After the cuts were made, the Legion of Decency removed the film from the list, and further bookings were possible." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Narcissus