Censored

Blasphemy!


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How did the Irish censor feel about Biblical epics? And how could a convent have ‘a sex atmosphere’?

 

Where we discuss Mary Magdalene’s gold bikini and dangerously smouldering Englishmen. But also, Elvis.


Films:

  • King of Kings (Cecil B. deMille, 1927)
  • Black Narcissus (Powell and Pressburger, 1947)
  • Flaming Star (Don Siegel, 1960)


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