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(1962)

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Sex & Nudity

  • A woman is shown topless (lying face down) on a bed. Her breasts are mostly visible. Her nipples can be seen briefly for a few seconds. It is implied that she and another man (shown completely dressed) have just had sex.

Violence & Gore

  • In the opening scene, a man kills his friend.
  • A doctor extracts a bullet from a man's shoulder. The wound is show bleeding. A few other gunshots are shown in the film and a couple of the wounds bleed.

Profanity

  • Insults: "bastard" (8 instances) "bastards" (1) "scum" (1)
  • Profanity: "damn" (2 instances) "screw" (1) "shit" (1)
  • Based on the English subtitles from the Criterion Collection DVD.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • There is quite a bit of tobacco smoking in this film. Several main characters smoke cigarettes (many of them smoke on multiple occasions). Cigarettes are shown in many scenes.
  • There is some alcohol drinking in this film. Several scenes are set in clubs. Both Silien and Jean drink and order drinks.
  • The police allude to the fact that a man deals drugs.Heroin and cocaine are referenced and the police discuss a vice squad raid, but no drugs or drug use is shown.
  • An incident in which a man was very drunk is referenced briefly on at least two separate occasions.
  • No intoxication is depicted in the film.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A woman is bound and gagged, tied up, slapped around, and yelled at. Her face is shown bleeding.

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Violence & Gore

  • Some of the violence is graphic. A couple gunshot wounds are shown bleeding and many crime scenes are shown, including how they are rearranged after people are murdered. Many main characters are shot and killed.
  • A man slaps around a woman and then ties her to a radiator. It is later shown that she was killed by rolling her car off a cliff.
  • A man kills two men whom are revealed to be innocent.
  • A man is hired as an assassin to kill a man.
  • A shootout occurs at the end of the film. A man is shot in the back and the wound is shown bleeding.

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