Fifty Years After The Ratings Mess Around ‘Midnight Cowboy,’ Hollywood Still Gets Holier Than Thou
Fifty years ago–on May 25, 1969, to be exact—United Artists walked into one of the all-time great film rating messes when it released John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy with the Motion Picture Association of America's dreaded "X–Persons under 17 not admitted."
When Variety reviewed it on May 14, the movie, about a…
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