Download or read book The Face On The Cutting Room Floor written by Murray Schumach and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1964 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of cinema censorship is as much a panorama of American morality in the twentieth century as it is a tale of quick-buck chicanery, hypocrisy, bigotry, ignorance, and the admirable struggle to make movies a great art form. Starting with the films of Mabel Normand, Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle, and Jean Harlow, the battles both secret and public over what the American public should or should not see have grown in intensity and in significance. Why was the ending of 'A Streetcar Named Desire' altered? Why was the line "Cattle don't graze after sheep" deleted from Howard Hughes's 'The Outlaw, ' which starred Jane Russell? What is Alfred Hitchock's formula for violence which allows his films to pass the censors? Murray Schumach tells the stories of these films and others on which the censors went to work: Double Indemnity, From Here to Eternity, The Moon is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, West Side Story, and more. Here is also an inside look at the movie industry 'black list' and how 'unemployable' writers get work via the Hollywood underground. The book discusses the role played by pressure groups, including the Catholic Legion of Decency and the NAACP. Here, too, is the full report of Khrushchev's visit to Hollywood in 1960, an account that would be hilarious if it didn't expose the movie industry at its worse. Includes 40 pages of photographs, many depicting scenes not allowed to be shown on the screen.