īanned in Cleveland and several other cities due to explicit nude scenes, though later the Cleveland court decided the nude scenes in the film were not lewd after all. īanned in New York City because of sexual content. īanned in many American cities due to language. The film was banned regionally by local agencies in the Pacific Northwest, particularly in Portland, Oregon-its setting-due to its depiction of crimes inspired by those committed by crime boss Jim Elkins. The ban was lifted after a complaint by the American Civil Liberties Union.
The Walt Disney documentary was banned in New York because it showed a buffalo giving birth. The film was banned in Ohio as "a sordid, sadistic presentation of brutality and an extreme presentation of crime with explicit steps in commission." īanned in Jersey City, New Jersey as "indecent and obscene." īanned in Atlanta and Memphis liable to "create dissension and strife between members of the white and colored races, and would be likely to cause disorders, disturbances, and clashes between the races" Universal was discouraged from challenging the constitutionality of the censors by the protests of the national religious groups that arose as the Atlanta case went to court. On January 4, 1946, the New York State Censor Board banned Scarlet Street entirely, relying on the statute that gave it power to censor films that were "obscene, indecent, immoral, inhuman, sacrilegious" or whose exhibition "would tend to corrupt morals or incite to crime." As if in a chain reaction, one week later the Motion Picture Commission for the city of Milwaukee also banned the film as part of a new policy encouraged by police for "stricter regulation of undesirable films." On February 3 Christina Smith, the city censor of Atlanta, argued that because of "the sordid life it portrayed, the treatment of illicit love, the failure of the characters to receive orthodox punishment from the police, and because the picture would tend to weaken a respect for the law," Scarlet Street was "licentious, profane, obscure and contrary to the good order of the community.". īanned in Memphis, Tennessee, because Brewster's African-American servant was treated too well. It took until 1976 before copyright issues were resolved. Cain's novel The Postman Always Rings Twice to which MGM owned the rights. īanned for 33 years because the plot was based on James M. This film's theme (adultery) caused it to be banned in New York City, among other places. īanned in five states and five other cities due to "glorification of crime." īanned in the US from 1933 to 1937 due to its erotic content.
Though passed for theatrical screening, several cities banned the film due to its depiction of prostitution, namely Birmingham, Alabama. Its themes of witchcraft and Satanism may also have had an effect. īanned until 1929 due to the use of torture and nudity. Produced by and starring Margaret Sanger banned, with the New York Court of Appeals holding that a film on family planning work may be censored "in the interest of morality, decency, and public safety and welfare". Louis, and the states of Ohio, Kansas, and West Virginia, as well as "dozens" of other jurisdictions. This is a list of films that are or have been at one time or another banned in the United States including films banned in some American cities or states.īanned in several American cities for its racist content and portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan, including Chicago, Las Vegas, Denver, Pittsburgh and St. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ( January 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help by replacing IMDb with third-party reliable sources. IMDb may not be a reliable source for film and television information and is generally only cited as an external link.
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