Controversy or Prediction?

Today’s classic of cinema was controversial before it even premiered. While that is common today (i.e. Disney’s new ‘Snow White’), in the 1960s it was much less so. Let’s look at why this 1962 film with an IMDB fan’s rating of 7.7 was so controversial. The producers and studio fought an on-going battle with the MPAA code just to get it released. A cutti…