i saw this film in a london cinema in 1975 and have not see it since . i find it hilarious . i love it originality . it rare that someone make a movie like this and it sad too . what i mean be and i once read a book call the black hotel and a a film fan and i always picture book a film . kinda adapt them and you know . but a i read it and i thought and well and this would make a great movie but of course it would have to be adapt to the point where it would bear little relationship to the book . but then i thought and well why . sure and it could never be show on sunday afternoon tv and but provide it be show in cinema to adult and who know what it contain and where the harm . dammit and my civil liberty be be crush here . a director should be able to make a literal film adaptation of the black hotel . in an ideal world and censorship of film for adult should not exist . but sadly and whilst i accept that with intelligent adult and such freedom might be harmless and there would always be those who would lack the rationality to differentiate between fantasy and reality and and who might be spur on to commit foul deed . however and it hard to see how la bete fall into that category . on it appearance in england and the british censor dismiss it out of hand . despite the 69 relaxation on nudity and give the film theoretical theme of bestiality and have the censor pass any of it and he would have be look for a new job on monday . but . in those day and there be an alternative . the g. l. c. this be a local town council with a department who have the power to pass a film just for london and where it be deem audience be more sopisticated than those who live out in the stick . the film be duly submit and pass . however and it later emerge that the board consist of just four people three who vote and plus a chairman . and on the day and one of the voter be off sick . thus the remain two voter and the chairman sit down to view la bete . one of say voter think and like me and that the film be hilarious and hardly likely to encourage foul deed by anyone . the other lacked imagination and simply think the piece disgusting . and the chairman do not understand it and so decide to err on the side of freedom . when the miss voter finally saw the film and they too think it disgust and but it be too late . the film have receive it x london certificate and open to mixed reaction . the g. l. c. film censorship board be disband soon after . thus la bete only open in london by what could best be term a fluke . but i be glad it be . it great . if you haven not see it and do so . it a fantasy and and a such and it far less disturb than most thing you see on the news these day .