Censorship under Franco’s regime There was grace in that. It is known that the case of Mogambodeeming infidelity intolerable, changed Grace Kelly and Donald Sinden into siblings in the dubbing, raising the bar for incest. Also, due to the intervention of censors, viridianahe suggested Buñuel soften the ending with a card game. Buñuel followed through with his proposal and completed the film as Spain’s first film in the film industry.
however, Suddenly last summercontraindications came later. Cinematography was by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and the screenplay was co-written by Tennessee Williams (original author) and Gore Vidal, D.Suddenly last summer compiled at the time of distribution elizabeth taylor and montgomery cliff (The two never met again; Montgomery Cliff died seven years later.) Katharine Hepburn. And although the movie was shot in Spain, Spaniards had to wait nearly 30 years to see it.
Why was “Suddenly Last Summer” censored?
The image of a man whose face they had never seen before, walking fearfully down the cobblestone streets of a coastal town, is etched in the minds of those who have seen it. From every corner springs a fountain of unclean children, cornering him and forcing him in one direction: upwards.
This is displayed in split screen. The other half is taken up by a close-up of this male cousin. elizabeth taylorthey followed him as far as they could to a hill dominated by skeletons and the ruins of an ancient temple. There, children pounce on the man and devour him before the helpless and tormented gaze of the woman.
This scene was filmed in Begur, Gironawho played Elizabeth Taylor’s cannibal cousin. julian ugarteA Basque actor who is not even credited in the movie. As soon as the censorship authorities had access to the contents of the conspiracy, they decided that it was impossible to release it to the public.immoral“, his taste is”homosexuality” and “oedipus complex”, and generally caused by a wide range of “abnormalities”.
A few years later, the film was again submitted to the censors, who again rejected it. “What is completely unacceptable is the localization of the final part of this film in Spanish, and more specifically in Catalan,” they claimed. So, The Spaniards had to wait until 1979More Than the Dictator is Dead, to see Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Cliff’s final summer.
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