Siskel & Ebert & The Movies: 8-29-87 (Hollywood's Outdated Movie Rating System)

Note: I stitched the credits from Larry's recording which was missing the first few minutes at the beginning and this episode is now complete while the sponsors are cut out.

On this special episode, Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert tackles on the M.P.A.A. ratings controversy of several adult films that were threaten with an "X" rating and were cut down for censorship into an "R" rating with such films as "Angel Heart"; "Crimes of Passion"; "9 1/2 Weeks"; "Midnight Cowboy"; "Last Tango in Paris". Also, they suggest an "A" rating for Adults that doesn't pronounces pornography and snuff films. Even the action film, "RoboCop" got into the act of cutting down its graphic violence. This was 3 years before M.P.A.A. replaces "X" with an "NC-17" rating.

Recorded on KATU ABC 2 in Portland, Oregon with Commercials intact.