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JESUIT HOLLYWOOD Shaun Willcock BIBLE BASED MINISTRIES First published in 2015 for Bible Based Ministries by New Voices Publishing Cape Town, South Africa www.newvoices.co.za Bible Based Ministries www.biblebasedministries.co.uk [email protected] Bible Based Ministries’ worldwide contact: Contending for the Faith Ministries 695 Kentons Run Ave Henderson, NV 89052 United States of America [email protected] IMPORTANT NOTICE: The author has no objection whatsoever to anyone reproducing this book in printed form for free distribution, provided it is reproduced in full, including the cover, without being altered or edited in any way. His desire is for this book to be as widely distributed as possible. However, anyone wanting to print the book for sale, must obtain permission from the author. ABOUT THE SOURCES REFERRED TO IN THIS BOOK: In writing this book, factual information was compiled from a number of sources, which are referred to in this book for documentation purposes. However, reference to a particular source does not by any means necessarily imply agreement with the doctrinal position of the author, nor with every statement in the work referred to. ISBN-PRINT: 987-0-620-66718-0 ISBN-EBOOK: 978-0-620-66719-7 2 - CONTENTS Introduction 5 Chapter 1: The Jesuit Use of the Dramatic Arts 8 Chapter 2: The Jews Create Hollywood 19 Chapter 3: Protestants, Roman Catholics and Film Censorship in the Early Years 35 Chapter 4: Jesuit Regulation of the Movie Industry: The Production Code 52 Chapter 5: Joseph I. Breen and The Code 72 Chapter 6: The Roman Catholic Legion of Decency 93 Chapter 7: The “Golden Age” 1930s and 1940s: Rome Triumphant in Hollywood 115 Chapter 8: The 1940s: Challenges to the Code and to Roman Catholic Domination 157 Chapter 9: The 1950s: Roman Catholic Movie Censorship Takes a Beating 193 Chapter 10: The 1950s: Hollywood Liberalises under Jesuit Direction 216 Chapter 11:The 1960s: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times for Rome 243 Chapter 12: The 1970s: Rome under Attack, but Fights Back 275 Chapter 13: The 1980s: The Movie Assault on Romanism Continues 299 Chapter 14: From the Twentieth into the Twenty-First Century 310 Chapter 15: Conclusion 372 End Notes 385 3 - INTRODUCTION This is a book about the influence of the Roman Catholic institution over Hollywood during its so-called “Golden Age”, then the waning of that influence, and the frequently open hostility towards Roman Catholicism, in the post-“Golden Age” period. The purpose of this book is to provide evidence of the way in which the Roman Catholic institution pursues its never-ending objective of conquering the world, in particular what could be called the “Protestant world”, by seeking to harness and make use of the most powerful entertainment medium the world has ever known: the movie industry. This is a battlefield which almost no one recognises as such. The Papacy works through politics; through religion; through international finance; and many other channels to achieve its objective. But Hollywood? Moviegoers have no idea, as they sit munching their popcorn and viewing the films they love so much, that they are being deliberately indoctrinated, subtly, slowly, via the very movies they naively think they are watching solely for entertainment. And this indoctrination is virtually as old as Hollywood itself. Their beliefs, morals, worldviews, are all being shifted, changed, altered; and this is being done gradually, film by film, year by year, decade by decade, without them being aware of it. The morality and religious thought of the western world is nothing like it was prior to the advent of the movies. The harm that has been done, and is being done continuously, by the movie industry can never be fully calculated. But it is beyond all doubt that the movies have played one of the greatest roles of all in the destruction of the morals of the West, and the destruction of the Protestantism of the West as well. This book provides evidence of how the world’s most powerful religio-political institution, falsely calling itself a “church”, has used Hollywood to promote its diabolical agenda. During what is (wrongly so, from a moral perspective) known as the “Golden Age” of Hollywood, the American film industry was 5 extremely pro-Roman Catholic, and indeed under Jesuit domination. Rome desired to use the immense influence of movies to promote Roman Catholicism among the masses. And it was very successful at it. It is correct to say, as one researcher did, that the Roman Catholic institution was “the most successful pressure group in the history of the movies”.1 But there was another sinister influence in Hollywood as well: Communism. And in the process of time this influence increased and began to displace the Roman Catholic influence in Hollywood, turning the giant movie industry into far more of a pro-Communist, and often vehemently anti-Roman Catholic force. But it would be a mistake to assume that the mighty Roman Catholic institution just gave up! Throughout the centuries, Rome has advanced, retreated, advanced again. It suffers setbacks from time to time, but never for too long. It always bounces back. It nibbles away, unseen, at its enemies’ vitals, and step by step it works to regain any ground it lost. In Hollywood, the Jesuits deliberately changed tactics and changed sides, and began to support what they had once fought against, much to the consternation and confusion of those Roman Catholics who were of the anti-Communist generation of an earlier period in Roman Catholicism. It can be confusing to anyone trying to follow the subtle, diabolically cunning Jesuit tactics; but unless one grasps what was going on, one can never understand the massive shift that occurred in Hollywood, and also within the “Church” of Rome’s attitude to it. The situation today is that there are two immensely powerful, competing forces vying for dominance over Hollywood: Communism, often dominated by Jewish Communists, presently ascendant, and Roman Catholicism, once the more powerful of the two in Hollywood but presently in a somewhat weaker position. How long this state of affairs will continue is impossible to say. But we can be certain the Vatican is doing all in its power to once again triumph in Hollywood. It will become clear to the reader of this book that we do not support Roman Catholic censorship of the movies, even though for a long time this censorship made most of the movies more “moral” than they would otherwise have been. But let it be also clearly understood: just because 6 we do not support Roman Catholic censorship of movies being forced upon everyone in society, this does not mean we support immoral movies! We do not condone any movies that portray sin in a favourable light. We merely refer to these movies by way of illustrating what has occurred in Hollywood through the decades. There is no excuse for any true Christian to watch sinful movies. Apart from those immoral films which he saw before his conversion, the author did not view the films mentioned in this book. He simply conducted extensive research into them. There is a belief abroad in modern times which goes something like this: “How can you criticise what you have not seen?” But this is false. One does not have to go to a brothel to understand what goes on there, and likewise one does not have to actually view an immoral movie in order to know that it is so, for it is a relatively simple matter to obtain all the necessary information about it from those who made the movie, acted in it, etc. There is something fundamentally wrong with professing Christians becoming film reviewers, going to see every kind of immoral movie so that they can tell other professing Christians not to do so! “I have watched it carefully, and I am here to tell you that it is not a movie which Christians should be watching.” This is hypocritical in the extreme. If a film is immoral, and should be shunned by Christians, then it should be shunned by “Christian reviewers” as well.2 They do not have special grace to resist the temptations they claim to be protecting others from! They do not occupy some special plane above other men. The Bible is clear: “Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away” (Prov. 4:14,15). 7 - CHAPTER ONE THE JESUIT USE OF THE DRAMATIC ARTS To properly understand the Jesuit use of the dramatic arts, one must also understand the Jesuits themselves: who they are, and what their purpose is. Although this is a huge subject in itself, one of this author’s previous books is entitled, The Jesuits: the Secret Army of the Papacy,3 which is a concise study of these very issues; and what follows at the beginning of this chapter is taken from that book, to provide the reader with some vital information about the Jesuits and their goals. This information is then followed by the study of their use of the dramatic arts. The Origin of the Jesuits The Jesuit Order originated with Ignatius de Loyola, born in 1491, a Spanish basque who became a fanatical Romanist after living a debauched life as a soldier, claiming to have had visions of God and of Mary. He eventually wrote The Spiritual Exercises, which was to become the Jesuits’ textbook. He founded the so-called “Society of Jesus” in 1534, with a small band of friends.