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Sex & Nudity

  • Several cases of sexual innuendo, subtle and obvious. Newlywed husband and wife are seen laying in one bed (fairly unusual for the era); additionally, bare-chest nudity is shown in this scene. Though it is very subtle, there is a slight intimation of gay subtext between male "best friends." Note how they share a hotel room in Miami.
  • The plot concerns a man trying to seduce a women, he buys her a suite.
  • Unmarried woman carries on openly with men, picking them up for sexual liaisions, considered promiscuous in women.
  • A husband thinks that his wife is pregnant with another man's baby.

Violence & Gore

  • A drunk man slaps his pregnant wife, who falls to the floor.
  • A man falls down staircase, dying of heart attack. Very intense.

Profanity

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Alcohol: Multiple scenes, some where drinking is to excess.
  • Drugs: None
  • Smoking: Multiple characters smoke cigarettes throughout the film.
  • Scenes of drunkenness and disorderly behavior.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

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Violence & Gore

  • A shot is fired inside a home; a man walks out the front door and falls down.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A man hits his wife causing her to miscarry their baby.

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