*This is an early 1970's television film so there is no gore and a very low level of violence.*
A boy carves a willow switch so that his brother can be spanked by their new "father".
A deer is shot and then eaten.
A woman finds a rattlesnake on her bed. The snake becomes frightened and begins shaking its tail, and a teenage boy comes into the room and shoots it.
A man standing in a canoe is knocked unconscious when a boy swims under it, tipping it over as a joke.
A man and a woman are hunted by dogs and later held at gunpoint by a boy.
A man and woman are trapped on a farm against their will. It's implied that any previous stand-ins were murdered by Peter.
The death of both real parents is talked about.