‘Moral Decay’ Film

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30578, 22 October 1964, Page 21

‘Moral Decay’ Film

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. Supporters of Senator Barry Goldwater have produced a television film featuring semi-nude dancing girls, pornographic magazine covers, street riots and a girl in a topless swim suit to show the “moral decay” of the nation since President Johnson took office. The film called “Choice” was reportedly to be the idea of “Mothers for Moral America”, a group backing the Republican Presidential candidate in the election campaign. It is due to be shown over a national network on Thursday. One of the producers was quoted in the press today as

saying the film’s purposes were to “play on prejudice” of voters and show the nation’s “moral decay” since Mr Johnson became President. The film opens with a shot of a black limousine speeding down a road in Texas, President Johnson’s home State, with an empty beer tin being thrown out of the window. Raymond Massey, the actor who plays Dr. Gillespie in the television series, “Dr. Kildare,” is the film’s narrator. ’’’here was no official comment from the Democratic national committee. But local Democratic officials were reported to be “chortling” over the film. The Washington “Daily News” said these Democrats felt the Republicans “would not dare show it on television because of the sex in it.” Joint Effort It was announced that the fit would be shown jointly by the Mothers for Moral America and Citizens for Goldwater-Miller to the press at the National Press Club tomorrow.