Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970) Poster

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Sex & Nudity

  • A lot of scenes where women are topless.
  • Some adultery and even an implication of lesbianism is present in the movie.
  • A woman changes into a robe in the dark, so her nudity isn't visible. Her nudity is barely discernable from afar when she runs along a beach and briefly drops her robe.
  • One of the leading female characters is repratedly seen in outfits at a minimum of for her bikini region alone. She's also seen in silhouette taking a shower and later appearing in a towel.
  • Continuous sexually degrading and misogynistic language throughout the film, specifically the wives and other women, including dominance by their husbands and sexually exploiting them.
  • The movie opens with a woman performing an alluring dance, at the end being seen with a bikini top and pants while she finishes with one of the men present at the party.
  • A drunk man isolates a woman on a beach and gropes and harasses her in a failed attempt to seduce her for a bribe. She staves him off after he undoes a button on her blouse and walks away.
  • A woman operates a rotating bed while in her lingerie, then harasses and caresses a man before he leaves, the woman laughing just after.
  • A woman and a man make out in bed, their pelvises covered in sheets. The woman's nipple is visible for a few seconds when they kiss, then the scene cuts to the woman in a nightgown and the man in his underwear sleeping. The woman dances and shows the nightgown is see-through.

Violence & Gore

  • Some people are killed with sharp objects. Medium amount of blood is shown.
  • Some people get shot, but there's little to no blood.
  • Domestic violence and abuse, such as a husband smacking a wife around when she's already crying.
  • A woman is seen covered in what looks like blood while she's tied to an indoor tree. It was presumed she was previously tortured by cutting. Water poured on her revealed she was faking and the blood wasn't real.
  • A man is seen with a knife in his abdomen. He's later seen facedown dead on the beach. Minimal blood.
  • Bodies of victims are hung from chains in a walk-in freezer each time someone else dies.
  • A man is shit and collapses over a sofa. Minimal to no blood.
  • A woman is seen dead, tied outside to a tree in her lingerie, a knife stuck just under her left breast. She's covered with cuts implied to have been inflicted on her when she was alive to torture her.
  • A woman is seen dead in a pool, her wrists slashed. Minimal blood.
  • A woman is seen in a closeup shot with a gunshot to her forehead. Minimal blood and effects.
  • A man coerces a woman to get her shawl from him, before he aggressively struggles with her to force answers from her.
  • A man takes a swing at a woman, but the woman flips him to the ground.
  • Fighting scenes with throwing punches in fisticuffs.

Profanity

  • Repeated uses of "whore" toward female characters

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Copious drinking and smoking, even one scene of throwing a glass bottle into the ocean and another of a couple in the bed and the woman passing a cigarette in her toes to the man.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

Spoilers

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Sex & Nudity

  • Scientific data was hidden in a ring left in the bosom of a murder victim.

Violence & Gore

  • One character shoots another in the face, minimal blood. The victims returns fire, and both characters collapse, dead.
  • A man is presumably shot with a scoped rifle by a woman. It's revealed the scene was staged to fake his death.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Discussion of use of barbiturates on animals and as a truth serum.

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