Three British Bans

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 177, 29 July 1939, Page 7 (Supplement)

Three British Bans

THE British film censor has banned a French film called "Entente Cordiale," dealing with the part played by Edward VII. in the forming of the Entente. The censor's ruling is that a representation of a British Monarch of such recent date cannot be permitted on the screen. Edward VII. is played by Victor Fran-t-en, who was the kin;; in a mythical country in the witty, risque, and highly successful comedy, "Le Roi s'Anuwe," Caby Morlay plays Queen Victoria. "Kntente Cordiale" was t.o have been shown at the Academy Cinema, Oxford Street, but as a result of the censor's ruling the print has been returned to France. Another notable foreign film which recently came under the Uritish censor's ban, "Professor Manilock," about the early Nazi persecution of .lews, has just been banned in France, after running for some weeks in Paris. In Mexico City, by way of contrast, school children have been instructed by the Public Education Department that they must see it. A third film to be banned in England is Dr. Richard Massingham's "At the Third Stroke," a one-reeler made for the G.P.O. Film Unit. Objections were raised to a bedroom scene and to the behaviour of a drunken man who comes home in the email hours. Dr. Massingham, whose "Tell Me If It Hurts" attracted much attention, stated that he had shown his new film to a number of people, who agreed that there was nothing in it to give offence. <3> <$>