OK. You guys have convinced me. I’m worried about nothing. It’s not so much that the scene disturbs me, as I’ve been conditioned to react to anything in an old movie that might trigger whackos to banning it because out of context it violates something. I read something once where someone thought movies that showed underage people smoking ought to be either censored or banned because it’s illegal now, even though it wasn’t when the film was made. I thought of all the films, from Stand by Me to The Bad News Bears that would be affected, and got a bad feeling.
I’d hate to lose Metropolis because of laws made 80 years in another country after the film was released.