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Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory and entirely-forgotten Disney comedy
The Million Dollar Duck. But other new arrivals suggested Hollywood’s confusion over just what audiences wanted at a point when strict old censorship rules had only recently collapsed (the G-to-X MPAA ratings system was just a couple years old), and the major studios were in a panic. Was
Easy Rider the new model for commercial success? Or
Airport? Hewing to something like the conservative latter model were a flop combat movie,
Murphy’s War, and tea-cosy horror
What’s the Matter With Helen?, a last gasp of the “scary old broads” trend that had commenced with