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"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.
|source=https://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/banned-in-memphis/Content?oid=1144204, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/wild-one-1953-review-959962
|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 04:30, 20 November 2018


Artist: Laszlo Benedek

Year: 1953

Date of Action:

Region: North America


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: Not provided yet.

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