On Wed, 29 Nov 1995 17:22:34 +1000 Kate Bowles said: >This film (dir. Jarmusch, and starring Johnny Depp, Robert Mitchum, Gabriel >Byrne and John Hurt) has been refused classification in Australia. I'm >curious to know whether anyone has seen it, and whether it has met with >classification problems in any other country? > >I think this question has come up before, but can anyone remind me of early >precedents of the tactical inclusion of censorable scenes in the >expectation that cutting them will protect the rest of the movie? (_Casino_ >is apparently one recent example). > >Thanks > >Kate Bowles >Screen Studies >University of Wollongong > Bargaining over cuts in debatable material has a long history going back at least to the 'thirties and the Production Code Administration ("the Hays Office"). A possibly apocraphal story has it that the Joe Breen, the Code administrator in the Hay Office, insisted on the deletion from a script of the line: "From off-screen there is a scream of a naked woman." ------------------------------------------------------------------- Cal Pryluck, Radio-Television-Film, Temple University, Philadelphia <[log in to unmask]> <[log in to unmask]> SCREENsite -- A Film/TV-studies site on the World Wide Web URL:http://www.sa.ua.edu/TCF/welcome.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]