Smiles of a Summer Night
Historically the Board has faced strong criticism for their overzealous attitude towards censoring films. Prior to the liberalising decade of the 1960s, films were routinely and extensively censored as a means of social control. For example, "Rebel Without a Cause" was cut to reduce the "possibility of teenage rebellion". Ingmar Bergman's "Smiles of a Summer Night" was cut to remove "overtly sexual or provocative" language.