From an entry in the Barbie Reviews threads:
The Legion of Decency which was in place from 1936 through 1978 was a pretty scary thing.
Growing up in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the only thing more terrifying than the Legion to a Catholic kid was the perceived threat of the end of the world by an atomic bomb being dropped on the U.S. by the Soviets.
We Catholics had to take a pledge at mass once a year that we would uphold the Legion which had four ratings which were roughly A1 for all audiences, A2 for adults and teens, A3 for adults only, B for objectionable, and C for condemned. Kids were led to believe that if you went to see a condemned movie, God would strike you dead as you left the theatre.
In 2007, M. Owen Lee, a Catholic priest and educator, came out with a book called The Best films of Our Years in which he listed his top ten films of every year from 1935-2006 with essays on his all-time ten best films which included the condemned 8 1/2. His annual lists included such condemned films as L'Avventura and Rosemary's Baby. It seemed like the final nail in the coffin of the Legion.
Now, I don't know, the support for Sound of Freedom and condemnation by the Trumpers of anything "woke" puts us right back in the days of The Moon Is Blue and Baby Doll.
Here's a list of Legion of Decency condemned movies. It's funny now looking in a rear-view mirror, but it was anything but funny back then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_f ... of_Decency
Catholic Legion of Decency (1936-1978)
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