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|confronting_bodies=Lloyd T. Binford, Head, Memphis Censor Board
|confronting_bodies=Lloyd T. Binford, Head, Memphis Censor Board
|medium=Film Video
|medium=Film Video
|location=Release Date: February 1954 (USA)
|description_of_content=Cinema
|description_of_content=Cinema
"Marlon Brando turns in a tremendously powerful performance as the inarticulate, frozen-faced, truculent outlaw who heads the gang of motorcycle hoodlums."
"Marlon Brando turns in a tremendously powerful performance as the inarticulate, frozen-faced, truculent outlaw who heads the gang of motorcycle hoodlums."
|description_of_incident=Memphians couldn't see Marlon Brando in the 1954 classic The Wild One because Binford considered it rowdy, unlawful, and raw.
|description_of_incident="Memphians couldn't see Marlon Brando in the 1954 classic The Wild One because Binford considered it rowdy, unlawful, and raw."
|description_of_result=Banned in Memphis
|image=Brando.jpg
|image=Brando.jpg
|source=https://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/banned-in-memphis/Content?oid=1144204, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/wild-one-1953-review-959962, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047677/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_41
|source=https://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/banned-in-memphis/Content?oid=1144204, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/wild-one-1953-review-959962, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047677/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_41
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Revision as of 04:34, 20 November 2018

Brando.jpg

Artist: Laszlo Benedek

Year: 1953

Date of Action:

Region: North America

Location: Release Date: February 1954 (USA)

Subject: Violence

Medium: Film Video

Confronting Bodies: Lloyd T. Binford, Head, Memphis Censor Board

Description of Artwork: Cinema "Marlon Brando turns in a tremendously powerful performance as the inarticulate, frozen-faced, truculent outlaw who heads the gang of motorcycle hoodlums."

The Incident: "Memphians couldn't see Marlon Brando in the 1954 classic The Wild One because Binford considered it rowdy, unlawful, and raw."

Results of Incident: Banned in Memphis

Source:
https://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/banned-in-memphis/Content?oid=1144204,
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/wild-one-1953-review-959962,
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047677/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_41