Londonderry Bans Wilde Film
(N.Z. Press Association—Copitright) LONDONDERRY, June 4.
The film “Oscar Wilde,” starring Robert Morley, has been banned in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
The City Corporation? meeting today after seeing the film in a local cinema, first rejected a proposal that permission be given for the showing of the film to adults only. On a show of hands a motion not to allow the film to be screened was carried. The board has yet to pas sor reject a second film on Wilde, “The Trials of Oscar Wilde,” starring Peter Finch.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29224, 7 June 1960, Page 18
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