Jewish impressario Bernard Delfont has personally banned the new Hitler film’s starring Alec Guinness from all local ABC-EMI cinemas in Britain. The chain numbers 260 cinemas which Delfont controls.
The film. “Hitler: The Last Ten Days,” opened at the London Empire Cinema with a royal charity premiere Monday night, attended by Princess Margaret. On May 20, it was due to go out on a selected local release run at six leading provincial ABC cinemas in Britain’s major cities. Later it was scheduled to be generally shown at all of ABC’s 260 cinemas throughout the country.
Delfont stated: “I banned the film on a number of grounds. I consider it a poor picture. Nor did I like a hero being made out of Hitler. But my decision was not necessarily prompted by a fear of the film spreading anti-Semitism.”
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