ESSRST PRESLEY-FILM SWIG VOOR S.A. SENSORS
So ran the newspaper headline announcing the news that Elvis Presley's latest film, "Flaming Star," will not be screened in South Africa. DAGBREEK, a South African paper, inquired into the matter, and through certain trustworthy contacts in Cape Town, they discovered that the reasons why the film has been banned is because of the unnecessary cruelty and violence, as well as the fact that Elvis portrays the role of an Indian half-breed.
Douglas Hill, Elvis Monthly – March 1961