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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Baby Face
1933, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Barbarian
1933 — a.k.a. A Night in Cairo, in 0 top lists Check -
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Design for Living
1933, in 6 top lists Check -
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Ekstase
1933 — a.k.a. Ecstasy, in 4 top lists Check -
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Flying Down to Rio
1933, in 2 top lists Check -
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I'm No Angel
1933, in 2 top lists Check -
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Man's Castle
1933, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Song of Songs
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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Finishing School
1934, in 0 top lists Check -
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Manhattan Love Song
1934, in 0 top lists Check -
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Men in White
1934, in 0 top lists Check -
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Murder at the Vanities
1934, in 0 top lists Check -
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Riptide
1934, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Scarlet Empress
1934, in 12 top lists Check -
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Search for Beauty
1934, in 0 top lists Check -
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This Man Is Mine
1934, in 0 top lists Check -
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West of the Divide
1934, in 0 top lists Check -
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Wharf Angel
1934, in 0 top lists Check -
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Whirlpool
1934, in 0 top lists Check -
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Two-Faced Woman
1941, in 1 top list Check -
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The Outlaw
1943, in 2 top lists Check -
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Three Daring Daughters
1948 — a.k.a. The Birds and the Bees, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Moon Is Blue
1953, in 3 top lists Check -
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The French Line
1954, in 0 top lists Check -
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Et Dieu... créa la femme
1956 — a.k.a. ...And God Created Woman, in 5 top lists Check -
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Love in the Afternoon
1957, in 3 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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Pote tin Kyriaki
1960 — a.k.a. Never on Sunday, in 3 top lists Check -
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Jules et Jim
1962 — a.k.a. Jules and Jim, in 21 top lists Check -
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Boccaccio '70
1962, in 1 top list Check -
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Kiss Me, Stupid
1964, in 1 top list Check -
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Reflections in a Golden Eye
1967, in 0 top lists Check -
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Valley of the Dolls
1967, in 1 top list Check -
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The Odd Couple
1968, in 3 top lists Check -
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Prudence and the Pill
1968, in 0 top lists Check -
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The April Fools
1969, in 0 top lists Check -
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Ultimo tango a Parigi
1972 — a.k.a. Last Tango in Paris, in 19 top lists Check -
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Grease
1978, in 12 top lists Check -
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Ice Castles
1978, in 0 top lists Check -
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Same Time, Next Year
1978, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Competition
1980, in 0 top lists Check -
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Those Lips, Those Eyes
1980, in 0 top lists Check
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