Just got my new TCM guide with Merle Oberon on the cover and was interested to read of the list of films that will be shown under the "Condemned" moniker, which will be hosted by a nun.
Can't remember her name, but does anyone here know it?
I found the list of films which the Catholic Legion of Decency condemned, to be fascinating. So many of the films are faves of mine.
Here are some of them, and by the way, I have to agree, "Ice Castles" should have been condemned!:
1933
Baby Face
Design for Living
Extase -- One of the first foreign films to be condemned.
The Emperor Jones
Flying Down to Rio
I'm No Angel
International House
Queen Christina
Roman Scandals
She Done Him Wrong
Wild Boys of the Road
The Women in His Life
1934[edit]
Belle of the Nineties
Fashions of 1934
George White's Scandals
Madame DuBarry
Murder at the Vanities
Nana
The Scarlet Empress
The Trumpet Blows
Wonder Bar
1940[edit]
Strange Cargo -- Initially condemned, the studio released a cut version.
1941[edit]
Two-Faced Woman
Volpone
1942[edit]
White Cargo
1943[edit]
The Outlaw
1945[edit]
Mom and Dad
The Dolly Sisters
1947[edit]
Black Narcissus
Forever Amber
1948[edit]
Three Daring Daughters
1950[edit]
Bitter Rice -- Condemned on its initial American release [1]
Los Olvidados
1951[edit]
M
The Miracle
1953[edit]
The Moon Is Blue -- Groundbreaking comedy by Otto Preminger. The first studio-produced film to deliberately bypass Production Code approval.
1954[edit]
The French Line
1955[edit]
Rififi -- Initially condemned, was re-released with changes for B rating.
I Am a Camera
1956[edit]
And God Created Woman
Baby Doll -- Controversial comedy/drama was approved by the Production Code but condemned by the Legion of Decency.
1957[edit]
Love in the Afternoon -- Initially condemned, the studio changed the ending.
Untamed Youth
1959[edit]
Some Like It Hot
1960[edit]
Breathless
Never on Sunday
Psycho
Spartacus
1961[edit]
A Cold Wind in August
Jules and Jim
Viridiana
1962[edit]
Boccaccio '70
1963[edit]
8½
Contempt
1964[edit]
Kiss Me, Stupid
From Russia With Love
Of Human Bondage
1965[edit]
The Pawnbroker
1966[edit]
Blowup
Torn Curtain
1967[edit]
Hurry Sundown
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Valley of the Dolls
1968[edit]
Rosemary's Baby
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Odd Couple
The Legend of Lylah Clare
Lady in Cement
The Magus
The Boston Strangler
Prudence and the Pill
The Sweet Ride
The Secret Life of an American Wife
The Anniversary
The Producers
Weekend
1969[edit]
I Am Curious (Yellow)
Marlowe
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
The April Fools
The Killing of Sister George
1971[edit]
A Clockwork Orange
The Last Picture Show
The Devils
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Billy Jack
1972[edit]
The Carey Treatment
Pink Flamingos
1973[edit]
The Exorcist
Last Tango in Paris
The Wicker Man
High Plains Drifter
1975[edit]
Lemora
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1976[edit]
Carrie
The Omen
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Taxi Driver
1978[edit]
Grease[2]
Dawn of the Dead
Ice Castles
Pretty Baby
Same Time, Next Year
1979[edit]
All That Jazz
Hanover Street
1980[edit]
American Gigolo
Dressed to Kill
Friday the 13th
Little Darlings
Used Cars
The Competition
Those Lips, Those Eyes