A man makes a remark to a woman about having a "silver tongue". He makes a lewd gesture to the woman with his tongue.

During a man doing a storyboard, he reveals his hand drawn work of a naked woman from her back including buttock nudity.

Very mild dialogue references to affairs. One character is a cad with a "little black book" full of women's names and he may have fathered a child out of wedlock. Another man worries that his wife will find out he has been flirting with another woman. A man refers to the man he is living with as his "nephew" but it's obviously a ruse as homosexual acts between men were illegal in the 1950s.

There are several scenes of violence, including a man strangling another using a rope. There are brief bloody images.

A man fights with the murderer and is strangled with a rope and then hit on the head with a sewing machine. His body is later found with blood on his shirt and head and coming out of his mouth. His tongue is said to have been cut off and it's briefly shown. (Not horribly graphic).

A man is shot in the chest and leg. A bloody bullet hole appears on his chest and a brief blood spray is seen coming out of his leg. He is then hit on the head with a snow shovel. Blood is seen pooling around his head. All very brief.

A man is strangled to death. A closeup of his face shows his eyes bulging and bloodshot. Not graphic but might be considered frightening.

A man is shot in the shoulder and some blood is shown on his shirt.

A man accidentally drinks rat poison and dies. Not graphic and played for laughs.

A brief shootout and and explosion. Four people die throughout the movie. Several fistfights and hitting with blunt objects. Strangling and shooting. Some seems with mild to moderate blood shown.

The words "hell", "damn", "g*ddamn", "ass", "bastard", "bloody", "shit" and "horseshit" are heard in the film.

Lots of drinking, with two characters in particular drinking to excess frequently and getting visibly drunk. Surprisingly no smoking though.