Original She-Wolf Of London ( 1946 ) U.S. one sheet was pretty lame but it appears perhaps the Australian censor thought otherwise so the result for Australians was the much more unexciting Australian daybill design.
An unusual case here. Why the cover up? Was it because there wasn't anywhere else to place the N.Z. censorship rating but if so why so big a display for a milder R rating or was it because the censor objected to something appearing in the drawing? My observation is they could have placed a smaller size N.Z. rating in the area where the Australian rating was originally positioned.
Without Warning ( 1952 ) is another seemingly never ending example of the Australian censor objecting to the use of a threatening knife in film advertising material.
For The Hellfire Club ( 1961 ) from the U.K. where does one start ?
Top two images from the original U.K. release, The two quads are the same except the far top one has had a little covering up work done on the dancing harem girl image. The second image underneath has a far sexier looking woman. The British quad artwork concentrated more on action than orgies.
The French poster ( also with Dutch titles on the bottom ) concentrated more on the orgies that just weren't in this very tame film. Notice a knife threatening a scantily clad woman who appears chained and also what the harem girl is wearing, or should I say not wearing.
Then we have the Australian daybill at the bottom which is very poorly drawn and rated For General Exhibition. The harem girl appears to me to have been upgraded to the 1960s in her outfit. What is the man pouring into the bath ? Bath salts maybe ? Then on the bottom right is supposedly a sword fight. The person on the left appears to be holding what appears to be a very thin sword but Keith Michell's character on the right is missing a sword along with the knife in his other hand which appears on the original quad. The daybill was from Advertising and Commercial who should have been ashamed of themselves for this poor excuse for artwork.
The top image of Hellfire club, the Irish Censor will have coloured in the girl, for use in Ireland. they did this kind of thing all the time. They are the same poster, not a different printing.
Girls on The loose ( 1958 ). Yes it is another I'll punch you to death Australian poster. Also note the hand gun the woman is seen holding on the insert has disappeared on the daybill.
Portion of an Australian daybill printed for the 1961 film The Mark and sent to New Zealand for it's release there. Note the censoring of the newspaper headlines and story. To sum up the film content the following will give you a clue as to why the poster was most likely censored there. ''A man who served time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist '' from IMDB. Australia banned more films than New Zealand ever did but New Zealand certainly excelled in film poster material censoring and at times was bordering on the ridiculous.
An unusual case here. Why the cover up? Was it because there wasn't anywhere else to place the N.Z. censorship rating but if so why so big a display for a milder R rating or was it because the censor objected to something appearing in the drawing? My observation is they could have placed a smaller size N.Z. rating in the area where the Australian rating was originally positioned.
I have located the following information regarding the New Zealand poster cover up above. The New Zealand censor in 1968 made seven deletion requests in order for the film's trailer to be passed for public exhibition. On horror grounds one of the seven stipulations was ''Delete views of vampire faces , struggles & chases''. If poster advertising was included as being part of advertising along with the trailer then perhaps this is why the chase scene was removed to ahere to the censors guidelines.
The original US art also had the vampire grabbing to her throat, so technically the NZ poster was a censored poster of a censored poster. Plus we may be talking mm but I think more boob was covered on the Aussie poster too.
Interpretation is also a wonderful thing
Italian 2P - make her happy the rest is OK
Italian 1P - make it more like a horror than the comedy romp it was (70s poster - more risque, typical of the 70s)
And this one...not seen this before, I'm guess an 80s one?
The original US art also had the vampire grabbing to her throat, so technically the NZ poster was a censored poster of a censored poster. Plus we may be talking mm but I think more boob was covered on the Aussie poster too.
The New Zealand censor had instructed in advertising to '' Delete handling of women'' on sex grounds. It is just as well the censored Australian daybill didn't show the grabbing of the throat on it as I would hate to think what the New Zealand version would have eventually looked like.
I think we were up there with the boob displaying compared to most foreign countries posters.
Vixen (aka Russ Meyer's Vixen ). ( 1968) . Passed for exhibition in Australia with an R certificate when imported by Columbia Pictures in 1976. Along with another Russ Meyer title in 1976 Finders Keepers Losers Weepers ( aka F * K / L * W ), Columbia Pictures apparently didn't want there name to appear on either of the daybill posters. Comparing the original U.S. artwork above to the Australian daybill it appears we had a watered down version to start with then the censorship started. The tampering then looked obvious and ridiculous.
Back to the banned sex images. Androcles And The Lion ( 1952 ). Borrowed the New Zealand daybill image from the Simmons Ltd.Litho thread to show the difference between it and the original Australian daybill.
Red Line 7000 ( 1965 ). Previously displayed a while ago were these two Australian and New Zealand posters in a stand alone thread that I started, that was only fleetingly viewed, so I thought they wouldn't go astray now in this thread. The New Zealand censors certainly took their role of guardians of everything moral seriously.
The Stripper ( 1963 ) has more bump and grind depicted on the U.S,. insert, whereas Joanne looks as she is performing at a children's party on the Australian daybill.
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Without Warning ( 1952 ) is another seemingly never ending example of the Australian censor objecting to the use of a threatening knife in film advertising material.
Top two images from the original U.K. release, The two quads are the same except the far top one has had a little covering up work done on the dancing harem girl image. The second image underneath has a far sexier looking woman. The British quad artwork concentrated more on action than orgies.
The French poster ( also with Dutch titles on the bottom ) concentrated more on the orgies that just weren't in this very tame film. Notice a knife threatening a scantily clad woman who appears chained and also what the harem girl is wearing, or should I say not wearing.
Then we have the Australian daybill at the bottom which is very poorly drawn and rated For General Exhibition. The harem girl appears to me to have been upgraded to the 1960s in her outfit. What is the man pouring into the bath ? Bath salts maybe ? Then on the bottom right is supposedly a sword fight. The person on the left appears to be holding what appears to be a very thin sword but Keith Michell's character on the right is missing a sword along with the knife in his other hand which appears on the original quad. The daybill was from Advertising and Commercial who should have been ashamed of themselves for this poor excuse for artwork.
Girls on The loose ( 1958 ). Yes it is another I'll punch you to death Australian poster. Also note the hand gun the woman is seen holding on the insert has disappeared on the daybill.
Interpretation is also a wonderful thing
Italian 2P - make her happy the rest is OK
Italian 1P - make it more like a horror than the comedy romp it was (70s poster - more risque, typical of the 70s)
And this one...not seen this before, I'm guess an 80s one?
The New Zealand censor had instructed in advertising to '' Delete handling of women'' on sex grounds. It is just as well the censored Australian daybill didn't show the grabbing of the throat on it as I would hate to think what the New Zealand version would have eventually looked like.
I think we were up there with the boob displaying compared to most foreign countries posters.
Red Line 7000 ( 1965 ). Previously displayed a while ago were these two Australian and New Zealand posters in a stand alone thread that I started, that was only fleetingly viewed, so I thought they wouldn't go astray now in this thread. The New Zealand censors certainly took their role of guardians of everything moral seriously.
The Stripper ( 1963 ) has more bump and grind depicted on the U.S,. insert, whereas Joanne looks as she is performing at a children's party on the Australian daybill.