Cinema in 1960s

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Granmarderby10

“love a duck!” usually uttered with exasperation by my Mum or others of her age group in the 1960s but I was completely unaware of any connection the term had with the f word or even what that word meant -just that it was a swear word,

I can certainly imagine this phrase being spoken in kitchen sink dramas such as Saturday Night Sunday Morning for instance.

It may interest you to know that the words, sod, Christ and bugger were removed from Saturday night because it was deemed offensive.

What about Good King Wenceslas?

How do you sing that without the word sod?
"Heat was in the very turf" doesn't rhyme with "trod"

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From what I can remember films in the 60s didn't have foul language in them. They were of much better calibre than these days.

In the past few years I’ve re-watched some films that were released in the 70s or late 60s, that I thought very good at the time. Only to find them terribly dated and nothing like as good as I remembered. I don’t remember the odd F word but TBH it wouldn’t have startled me even then.

One exception to the ‘don’t bother’ rule, is The Tamarind Seed (early 70s IIRC) with Omar Sharif as the Russian trying to recruit Julie Andrews (in her first ‘non-sweet’ role) as a spy - or is he?
I have it on DVD and still watch it now and then.

Particularly given recent events (Putin’s Russia) the KGB content is as chilling as it ever was - there are some heart stopping moments, and there are a couple of twists I certainly never saw coming the first time.