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Sex & Nudity

  • In a brief scene, during a Voodoo-themed musical entertainment act, we see a strange man (impersonating Baron Samedi) dance around a stage in a white loincloth, white trench coat, and white top hat. We can see his entire legs and upper body. He dances towards a woman in a dark bikini who has been roped to two poles. He then wraps his left arm around her lower back and begins to quiver his jowls while making an odd sound. Some might see this as sexual, others as a hilarious moment.
  • The opening title sequence begins with a woman's body dramatically side-lit, showing that she is wearing nothing but some necklaces. The strong lighting leaves most of her body in shadow, but we see part of her areola as well as her bared side from shoulder down to upper thigh. Later in the sequence, another apparently-nude woman is shown from the front; the only covering shown is some body paint. Posing and camera work obscure most of her body; no areola, nipple, or pubic area is shown.
  • A man and a woman are in bed together, the man's arm around the woman. The top sheet covers the woman's chest, leaving the man's chest and the woman's shoulders visible. No clothing is visible. The woman asks the man for "one more time," implying sex.
  • A woman sneaks out of a man's bedroom wearing only panties, with the man's pajama top pressed to her chest to hide her breasts. As she sneaks away, we see her bared back.
  • A man unzips a woman's dress, showing a bit of her bared back and the top of her panties.
  • In two scenes, a man dances in a scanty costume that covers little more than his pubic area. His bare chest, back and legs are visible several times. A few times in these scenes, we briefly see his buttocks.
  • Several scenes involve a painted depiction of a nude man and woman embracing as lovers, with the woman's bared breast showing from the side. Pubic areas are hidden by posing and the couples' buttocks are hidden by an artistic drape.
  • A man tries to talk a woman into bed with him. She refuses, but after later events in the scene, she reluctantly agrees to sleep with him. Nothing overt is shown beyond this, but the morning-after scene suggests that they had sex.
  • A man and a woman are lying on a blanket in the jungle kissing, the man shirtless and the woman wearing the man's sleeveless undershirt. Dialogue suggests that they had sex before the scene began. The woman later runs off, apparently wearing nothing but the undershirt and possibly some brief panties. The undershirt falls to the woman's upper thighs, leaving her arms and legs fully bared.
  • Photographs of nude women (apparently cut from magazines) are pasted up near a man's bed. Posing and cropping show bared breasts, hips, and thighs briefly.
  • A man and a woman wake up together in bed. The man is shirtless and the woman wears a camisole. They speak of having had sex. Later in the scene, the woman asks the man to have sex with her again in veiled language. The man agrees using an innuendo.

Violence & Gore

  • Bond pulls a ladder from a balcony down on an attacker's head, and kicks another in the chest.
  • Bond is knocked out and carried out of a room.
  • Bond drives a large truck under an overpass, and the top smashes into it and flies off.
  • Bond blows up a crackhouse, and there's a large explosion.
  • Bond burns a snake in one scene.
  • After a long boat chase, a boat crashes into the hold of a larger boat, and explodes.
  • Two men fight near a pool, and fall into it. One man inserts a pellet with built up air in it into the other man's mouth, and he inflates and explodes, non-graphically.
  • A man is stabbed with no graphic detail. It is implied that another man is stabbed offscreen.
  • A dart is shot into a man's temple, killing him. Blood can briefly be seen.
  • A woman is shot offscreen; we see her body with blood on her shirt.
  • A man is killed by a snakebite to the neck; no blood.
  • A woman is violently slapped to the floor and then shouted at by a man as she cries. Could be upsetting for some.
  • A man is killed in an explosion.
  • A man's arm is cut three times very slowly by a large knife; the camera spends time showing the blood dripping into what is shown to be a shark pool.
  • There's a car chase near the middle of the film.

Profanity

  • The racial slur "honky" is used at least three times in the dialogue

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Bond smokes and drink ocasionally.
  • Bond uses his cigar as a weapon twice.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • In various moments, a man, Voodoo priest Baron Samedi, gives a sinister laugh, often so deep to seem maniacal.
  • A woman is tied to a stake, and is being threatened with the snake at a voodoo ceremony.
  • A man is killed by a snakebite and sinister Voodoo rituals are shown.
  • Attempted feedings of Bond to crocodiles and sharks.
  • Man emerges from graveyard, but it obviously is because of an artificial lift inside a fake tomb.
  • Bond lights a spray to kill a snake.

Spoilers

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Sex & Nudity

  • Dialogue reveals one of the sex scenes detailed above to involve a loss of virginity. The possibility of this makes another man very angry; his angry speeches contain multiple veiled references to sex.

Violence & Gore

  • Bond fights with Baron Samedi, punching him and throwing him into a coffin of snakes, and he supposedly dies and is heard screaming, but he survives, as he's seen at the end of the film.
  • A man appears to be graphically shot in the head, with part of his head flying off. It is soon revealed that this is some sort of animated mannequin, which Bond then destroys with additional gunshots.
  • Bond and Tee Hee engage in a lengthy fight aboard a train. Bond punches him and slams him into different things, but Tee Hee knocks him around and tries to kill him with his hook hand. Bond eventually throws him off the train, though his death isn't seen.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • The villain's plan is to grow huge amounts of heroin and distribute much of it for free in the United States, causing his competitors to grow bankrupt and allowing him to make lots of money by charging large amounts for his heroin once all of his competitors are gone.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • In the woods of San Monique, various sinister wooden Voodoo scarecrows can be seen, later revealed to be filled with autated cameras and guns.
  • Some scenes involving Baron Samedi (his first appearence in San Monique, his tarot reading about Solitaire, as well as the last seconds of the film), could make you jump, as he appears suddenly on screen, crazily laughing.

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