Move To Ban Film Fails
(N.Z P.A.-Reuter—Copyrights NASHVILLE (Tennessee), July 24.
“Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?” the controversial film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, went back on the screen in Nashville last week after a move to ban it failed. Police Sergeant Fred Cobb, a Baptist deacon, seized the film on Sunday on the grounds that it violated a by-law banning obscene language in exhibitions. but the case was dismissed after lawyers said the law applied only to live performances.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31120, 25 July 1966, Page 13
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