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Sex & Nudity

  • A group of men perform a sexual song and dance.
  • There is a scene with a roomful of men and one scantily clad woman.
  • There isn't any nudity. Just jokes and cabaret style outfits. All sex is only implied.
  • Robyn Hilton has some nice cleavage.
  • Tons of sexual phrases and gestures, however nothing is graphically shown.
  • A few jokes about raping women, but again nothing graphic is shown.
  • A female character performs a dance routine in a cabaret style outfit.
  • The governor is accompanied by his buxom female secretary who wears revealing clothing in a few scenes.

Violence & Gore

  • A big brute, reacting to a man complaining about him tying up his cow he rode in one, punches the complainer's horse out.
  • A group of men shoot at and beat up many peaceful townspeople.
  • A gallows is seen and people are implied to be hung from it.
  • The hero, furious at being left to drown in quicksand while his racist foreman recovered the sinking handcar instead, hits him with a shovel.
  • A few non-graphic shootouts for comedic effect.
  • Firearms are used throughout the film.
  • A man is shot in the testicles.
  • A huge brawl near the end with attacks ranging from mundane punches to silly methods like bad breath and cream pies.

Profanity

  • 3 uses of "goddamn."
  • 1 use of twat, other milder words are used throughout.
  • many uses of shit
  • One inaudible (mouthed) F-word towards the end of the movie saying, "What the fuck's all...?"
  • "Faggot" is said twice.
  • "Damn" is said at least three times.
  • "Ass" and "asshole" are said several times.
  • hell is said many times
  • Constant Use of the N-word
  • An Asian man is called a "chink."

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A man smokes a cigar.
  • One character is an alcoholic. Also several scenes take place at a bar.
  • The lead character smokes and shares marijuana with a prisoner.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The local town reverent may strongly offend Christians, he is lampooned throughout the film such as being a nuisance by praying aloud. There is even a scene where he tries to preach to an armed and racist mob by lifting his Bible to remind them of his anti-hate sermons, they replied by shooting a hole through his book.
  • Sone dark but satirical humor, where the antagonist hires every real-world notorious groups including White/German-supremacists.

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