A man helps a young drunk woman undress. She is scantily clothed but no nudity.

In the dance numbers a few men are shirtless but no overt male or female nudity.

One couple makes love and is shown in a compromising position. We see his back and her legs, however, there is no explicit nudity.

Only one scene of gruesome violence with a knife that lasts a few minutes and is bloody. Most of the scenes are of two men arguing while others push them away to break it up and keep the peace.

A man and a woman slap each other on the dance floor.

A man threatens another man with a cleaver.

In a drive-by shooting several people, including children, are shot to death. In another scene a man shoots another man in the chest.

A few gangster style scenes of people being shot down with machine guns.

A group of men beat up man who insults them and flush his head down the toilet.

A man pulls out a gun but it's knocked out of his hands.

Some F words, the C word, and a lot of racial slurs and other curses.

Lots of drinking. Several people are inebriated at different points in the movie.

A humorous reference to cocain in one of the songs.

A lot of smoking including cigarettes and cigars.

The movie is fairly intense due to the ever present threat of mob violence, unbridled machismo and racial tensions during 1920's - 1930's.