George Putnam

George Putnam narrates standing in front of a map of the U.S., using large title cards to establish each topic. He argues that moral decay is spreading in this country: pornography, smut peddlers, sal...( read more  read more... )acious magazines and paperback books, fetishists, corrupters of children, nudists, and homosexuals. The motive, profit - it's a $2 billion per year industry. He shows us a courtroom where a judge reads instruct a jury to uphold community standards: Putnam argues that the Constitution and U.S. law are on the side of decency. At the film's end, he answers the question "What can an individual do?" with six suggestions, including promoting good reading to children.

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Unrated, 29 min.

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Release Date: January 1, 1965

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  • October 4, 2009
    "A flood tide of filth is engulfing our country in the form of newsstand obscenity, and is threatening to pervert an entire generation of our American children!"


    This is quite the little oddity. It is an American propaganda film from 1965 that was made by Citizens for...( read more) Decent Literature Inc. (founded by Charles Keating) to expose the many "evils" of pornographic literature. Seen today, it is full of so much B.S. that it's quite humorous. It's also hilariously bad and poorly made. Its appeal today is as a curiosity, a cultural artifact, and obviously, for a laugh.

    George Putnam, an "outstanding news reporter" (as is proclaimed in an opening title card) is your host and narrator throughout this strange little brainwashing session. You will be told how the sick depravity of "girly magazines", "nudist magazines", "pocket books", and other forms of filth are corrupting our society and decaying our "Judeo-Christian" values, leaving us open to the communist monster that is waiting to devour our country. The film stresses repeatedly that our children may read this literature and be enticed into an "abnormal sexually deviant perversion" such as homosexuality, lesbianism, sadism, or masochism.

    One of the most interesting parts was when they showed images from actual magazines of the time, which were only censored by very thin strips of tape, while Mr. Putnam spoke about how disgusting, abnormal, and obscene they were (most were just soft-core images of women's breasts). Putnam speaks of whips, riding crops, sodomy, cross-dressing, corsets, spiked heels, rubber and leather garments, and many other "perversions" with such a serious, self-righteous, and sternly insistent tone, that it is very very funny. Then at the very end, he asks God to deliver our country from evil, which is followed by an image of a drawing of a praying man next to the words "Deliver Us From Evil".

    Sanctimony and unintentional hilarity awaits should you happen to stumble upon this weird little piece of history. Perversion For Profit is preposterous, ridiculous, very offensive, and highly amusing. Oh smut peddlers of America, how did you ever escape the wrath of the Citizens for Decent Literature and our formidable hero, Mr. George Putnam?


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