Philippine Unavailable Film Register
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Ang Batang Tulisan

The Young Bandit

1938 · dir. Rod Avlas · Feature

A 1938 film withdrawn by the censors; film histories describe it as lost and no copy has been located.

Status

Screened publicly, with no current legal way to watch.

Availability checked 31 October 2026.

Where to watch

No legal streaming, VOD or archive access was found.

Details

Original title
The Young Bandit
Festivals
None recorded

Notes

The film was withdrawn from exhibition by the Board of Censors for depicting a priest in a villainous role and using a hypodermic syringe as a murder weapon. A community archive page says no surviving prints are known. No archive or historian statement was located. Availability checked 31 Oct 2026.

Sources

  1. IMDbwww.imdb.com/title/tt0497169retrieved 31 Oct 2026
  2. Esquire Philippineswww.esquiremag.ph/culture/movies-and-tv/15-most-controversial-and-ban…retrieved 31 Oct 2026
  3. Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_banned_in_the_Philippinesretrieved 31 Oct 2026
  4. Philippine Movie Royalty (Facebook)www.facebook.com/61560883499757/posts/ang-batang-tulisan-the-young-ba…retrieved 31 Oct 2026