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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 3. 1966.

Mutilation

Mutilation

When the university Film Society imported Luis Bunuel's Le Chien Andalou in 1963, the censor ordered the cutting of scenes showing "man rubbing hands over breasts of women both when she is clothed and when she is nude and view of man rubbing hands over nude woman's bottom."

It seems that an historic avant-garde film must be mutilated even for a university audience.

The Wild One has come up for review several times since it was originally banned, but each time it has been given the boot. This film may have created a furore when released 11 years ago, but I doubt if today's mod-man would be sufficiently stirred by the antics of Brando's boys to take to the street in like manner.

Thus the film enthusiast is denied an excellent film because of censorship's inability to appreciate the evolution in the style of teen-age rebellion and youthful delinquency.