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www.reel.com - : Which is the only Jack Nicholson film ever to be brought before the U.S. Supreme Court on charges of obscenity? It's 1971's most controversial film, Carnal Knowledge, which eclipsed even Kubrick's ultra-violent A Clockwork Orange of the same year, when a print was seized by Albany, Georgia officials claiming that it violated obscenity laws. More than two years later, after screening the film in closed chambers, the Supreme Court found that director Mike Nichols' cerebral diatribe about men trapped by their own machismo was not obscene and ''did not depict sexual conduct in a patently offensive way.'' more...
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