CINEMA AND CRIME
WHY CENSOR CUT FAGIN SCENE
TEACHING OLIVER TO PICK POCKETS. (tJHITID PMSS ASSOCIATION.—COPTMGET.) (AUJTIALUN - HEW «At,Am> CABU ASSOCIATION.)
(Received 30th January, 10 a.m.)
LONDON, 29th January. Mr. T. P. O'Connor, president of the British Film Censors, has issued a dofnece of his action in excising from the Oliver Twist film that portion in which Fagin instructs Oliver in pocket-picking. He says that .when he took up the censorship, he laid down the principle that no film showing the actual method of crime would be passed. The^xcision is very small, and the pocket-picking not entirely eliminated, but it is Tiot elaborated. The owner of the fihr. had declared that the material. effect on the film was negligible. Commenting on the criticism that everything that Dickens wrote wwa fit for the screen, he asks: "Would a realistic representation of *4 he murder of Nancy be suitable?"
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 25, 30 January 1923, Page 7
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147CINEMA AND CRIME Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 25, 30 January 1923, Page 7
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