Oblomov literally put me to sleep.
Oh, there was sex there. Just not explicitly shown.
And sometimes the “most important moments of life” involve sex, drugs and violence.
They often have for me.
I’ll bet you’d love the Hallmark Channel. 
I just went to Wikipedia and read the plot summary of the movie. It sounds like it could be a good movie. I have a lot of respect for Julie Andrews. I’ve never heard of it, so I don’t know what provider carries it.
TMI Alert! 
If the police tries to ban something, it means that the banned thing is socially important, isn’t it?
Watch for it on TCM. I’m sure they show it occasionally.
Quite agree.
I’m all in favor of banning thongs!
My granddad had an old saying that I think very much applies to the topic of movies: “One man’s meat is another man’s poison.”
When it is all said and done, a “good movie” is one we really enjoyed.
From the standpoint of American politicians, and American society, at that point in time, largely being strongly anti-Communist, and looking to ban things which painted Communism in an attractive or positive light, yes, sure.
It still doesn’t mean that American filmmakers, creating films for an American audience, saw “their main rival in terms of cinema” as filmmakers in the Soviet Union, as you indicate in your post #12.
By the way, Katherine Hepburn herself was against sex on the screen because of its artificiality.
Yeah. sometimes vitally importants parts of life include sex, drugs, and violence, but it doesn’t mean that it’s necessary that the actors should show tits, imitate frictions and stuff.
Mom was a historian. She always said “One man’s Mede is another man’s Persian.”
OK, that’s a wrap! The Authority On Everything has spoken. So let it be written, so let it be done.
If they hadn’t regard the Soviets as their main rival in cinema, the Soviet cinema would have conquered American filmgoers, using all the possible crevices. As is known, two systems tried to battle past their rival in all the aspects, including culture.
As for Maxim, if this movie had been weak, there wouldn’t have been the ballyhoo.
It should probably be noted for the OP, whom, I suspect, is not American, that in the “golden age of cinema,” explicit sex, nudity, and graphic violence were absent from most American films, due to the “Hays Code,” which the major studios all followed.
I thought it was a bit of mindless fluff, but the fact that it was badly promoted probably killed any chance it had. The trailer for the film was just a series of stills showing Julie Andrews dancing on stage, with a voiceover naming a handful of stars…but not a smidgen of plotline.
Show us even one quote, from an American source, that indicates that the U.S. film studios ever regarded the Soviet film industry as “their main rival.”
Bwa-ha-ha!!! Pull the other one, comrade. It’s got bells on.
Yes, American audiences would have flocked to the movies to watch stories about factory workers and peasants being transformed into revolutionaries. 