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Originally Posted by Reaper@Cult Labs  Alan Frank was mentioned on the Hammer thread.....
I sometimes wonder about him.
I'm sure it was The Devils that he actually congratulated the bbfc on taking 'Their trusty scissors' to the film...... 
Just shows what a hot potato it was in the seventies. |
A great many British critics - possibly even the majority - flat-out loathed
The Devils when it was originally released.
Ken Russell had been something of a critical darling up to early 1970, but the one-two punch of
Dance of the Seven Veils (on telly) and
The Music Lovers (in the cinema) turned a lot of people off, and
The Devils was really extreme for the time - at least as far as a biggish-budget major-studio-funded film was concerned. So it became a political football even before it was released, and a lot of the coverage at the time was more about that than it was about the film's actual content.