Banned Swedish movie opens in N.Y.
NEW YORK (UPI) — A Swedish film described by a federal customs official as "hard core pornography" opened yesterday at two Manhattan theaters nearly four months after the U.S. Court of Appeals overturned a lower court ruling that it could not be exhibited.
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"I am Curious-Yellow" is said to be the first film ever shown commercially in the United States that depicts sexual intercourse in clinical detail in the complete nude.
Distributed by Grove Press, a crusader for erotic literature, the film opened in spite of continuing controversy over whether it is obscene.
The film was impounded early last year at the order of Customs Commissioner Irving Fisherman who said he had "never seen a motion picture obviously intended for entertainment that so palpably consisted of hard-core pornography." U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Murphy upheld Fisherman by banning the film as "repulsive and revolting."
theaters showing the film must exclude minors and no advertising can be used capitalizing on "nudity and sexual activity."
The distributor carried the case to trial, but a federal court jurunanimously decided that the film was obscene and could not be exhibited. On appeal, the U.S. Court of Appeals reversed this decision by a vote of 2-1. The U.S. solicitor general's office made no attempt to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
By order of the appeals court
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