Anyone know why this got an X certification rating in the UK and an M in the US on its original release? I haven't seen it in many years, but I can't recall anything that would have merited these ratings.
sharethere's a lot of implied nudity at some places - some simply obscured by a wine glass, but still visible, and maybe the situation that got them there was sort of "adult"
shareAccording to the BBFC-Website (http://www.bbfc.co.uk/website/Classified.nsf/0/D80DAE1084563B718025741 D004149F3?OpenDocument) the original release was rated 'A' which at this time meant Adult (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_British_film_certificates#1951 .E2.80.931970).
Like Stazza I would assume that this was mainly because of the nude scene.
It's kind of sad that rating something "Adult" implies that it contains something too racy or profane for impressionable young minds. This movie certainly IS adult in that it deals with big issues like free will and the liberty to create the means of your own enslavement - subjects that would likely be over the heads of many younger viewers. In that regard, this most definitely is an "adult" movie, but since we all know it really was short hand for "wink, wink/nudge, nudge" moments, it just shows how much has changed in the decades since it's release. I'd expect it to get at most a PG-13 by today's standards.
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