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(1964)

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Sex & Nudity

Violence & Gore

  • A reoccurring character makes a reference to a location that is "popular with jumpers" in reference to suicide when a character is missing due to having been apparently fired from their job.
  • In one point a penguin slaps another penguin just for laughs
  • A fox flees for his life from aristocratic fox hunters, but Bert decides to intervene and help the fox escape.

Profanity

  • Two uses the term "hottentots." This is a derogatory term used originally by white Europeans about nomadic peoples in southern Africa is used to refer to soot-faced chimney-sweeps.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Mr. Banks mentions drinking sherry and smoking a pipe when he returns home from work.
  • When Mary takes her share of her flavor-switching-medicine, she says "Yum, rum punch.", and then she hiccups; it is implied she changed hers to an alcoholic drink.
  • Typical old-fashioned cigar smoking.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • An old woman covered in ashes scares two children in a dark alleyway, but nothing very frightening. Shortly after, a vicious dog also threatens the children growling, though only momentarily.
  • At one point, the Banks children get lost in the slums of the East End of London, and run into a soot-covered man who appears to be abducting them, but he turns out to be their trusted friend, Bert, who takes them safely home.
  • Some children and others may find the voice and laughter of Uncle Albert (Ed Wynn) to be creepy and frightening.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • Mr. Banks' former employer tells Mr. Banks that because of a joke he told to his father, he literally died laughing. However, while that means that Mr. Banks had inadvertently caused the bank executive's death, the man's son confesses that he is pleased that his father died happily and rehires Mr. Banks.

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