CENSORSHIP, a conversation - Part 4: "The Split" (1968)

This is the fourth part of an eight-part series about American movie ratings. 

Part 1 focused on Prano Baily-Bond’s “Censor”. Part 2 focused on Mike Nichols’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”. Part 3 focused on Brian DePalma’s “Greetings”.

Future episodes will focus on Steven Spielberg’s “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” (1984), Garry Marshall’s “The Flamingo Kid” (1984), John McNaughton’s “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer” (1986), and Philip Kaufmans’s “Henry & June” (1990).

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Referenced media:

• “Marty” (Delbert Mann, 1955)
• “Star Wars Holiday Special” (Steve Binder, 1978)
• “The Dirty Dozen” (Robert Aldrich, 1967)
• “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” (Melvin Van Peebles, 1971)
• “Shaft” (Gordon Parks, 1971)
• “Superfly” (Gordon Parks, Jr., 1972)
• “M*A*S*H” (Robert Altman, 1970)
• “The French Connection” (William Friedkin, 1971)
• “Black Sunday” (John Frankenheimer, 1977)
• “Bonnie and Clyde” (Arthur Penn, 1967)
• “Julia” (Hal Kanter, 1968-1971)
• “Rocky” (John G. Avildsen, 1976)
• “Bamse” (Arne Mattsson, 1968)
• “The Night of the Assassin” (Adriano Bolzoni, 1970)
• “Coogan’s Bluff” (Don Siegel, 1968)
• “Bullitt” (Peter Yates, 1968)
• “Ice Station Zebra” (John Sturges, 1968)
• “Hellfighters” (Andrew V. McLaglen, 1968)
• “Where Eagles Dare” (Brian G. Hutton, 1968)
• “Hell in the Pacific” (John Boorman, 1968)”
• “Assignment to Kill” (Sheldon Reynolds, 1968)
• “Riot” (Buzz Kulik, 1969)