 This was going to be the first movie shown in the new  John F. Kennedy (qv) Center for the Performing Arts in Washington,  D.C. It was cancelled because the plot of the movie was judged to be  inappropriate. This caused a big controversy. A Washington D.C.  television station took advantage of the controversy by acquiring  the broadcast rights to the film and showing it uncut after running  a big advertising campaign calling it the "film banned from the  Kennedy Center."