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Sex & Nudity

  • An older woman jokes while drunk that they have "done all the multiplying they are gong to do."
  • Passionate kissing.
  • Brief scene in which a man and woman kiss and cuddle while rolling in the hay. No nudity.
  • A woman strips to her underwear to change her dress, a man watches.
  • A woman complains that age 20 she has no marriage prospects.

Violence & Gore

  • Durring a horse chase a man falls off his horse and and his chaser pins him down.
  • An indian throws a spear at a cabin door and man runs outside and shoots at him as he rides away.
  • A swordsman on horseback attacks two gunmen.
  • A man is hung.
  • An indian shoots a young guy in the back with an arrow.
  • A man is punched in the face.
  • The film's climax is a huge gunfight between the Zachareys and the Indians.

Profanity

  • Native Americans are referred to as "red (n word)" several times.
  • Uses of damn, hell, and the n-word.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Cigar smoking.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • There is much anti-Native American sentiment in the film that some may find disturbing.
  • None.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Hepburn plays a Native American who was stolen as a baby and raised in a white family. Viewers may be disturbed when she is convinced to shoot and kill Native Americans--essentially the tribe into which her character had been born--in the ending battle scene.
  • The Lancaster and Hepburn characters come to a disturbing incest-like relationship between adopted siblings by the end of the movie.

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