I was surprised, this morning, when I found out the cobra dance clip from Cobra Woman, that I had posted in 2015 as I reviewed that movie, has been pulled off Youtube because the sensual moves of Maria Montez as she dances with a cobra muppet could cause dirty thoughts in the innocent viewers.
I am seriously worried by this weird form of preventive censorship, based on the idea that something might offend those that don’t like it – but if they don’t like it, why are they watching it?
So, just for the sake of being contrarian, here’s another exotic dance that the censors have yet to purge: Debra Paget’s dance from Fritz Lang’s 1959 tits & sand movie, The Indian Tomb.
This one, too, had the censors’ knickers in a twist.
IN 1959.
Enjoy.
… and yes, the Indian priests speaking German are somewhat unusual.
As a side note, the whole “woman dancing with cobras” might be familiar to my friends that are into Robert E Howard.
Shadows in Zamboula1, anyone?
Go and talk about censorship and undue perturbations of the viewer’s spirit.
- the comic adaptation of Shadows in Zamboula was actually the first ever Conan comic I read. ↩
Karavansara 
21 January 2018 at 16:08
I don’t see anything that might inspire impure thoughts. Her belly button is covered. What else do you want?
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21 January 2018 at 17:21
There’s some weird people out there.
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