Phyllis seen briefly, clad demurely in a towel. Otherwise her seductive affair with Walter Neff is all talk, mood, and innuendo.

A scene of adultery is implied. A married woman visits another man's apartment. They embrace and kiss. The scene fades to a later moment where the man seated on a sofa, smoking, and the woman seated on the other end of the sofa, fixing her makeup.

One man murders another with his bare hands, offscreen. Two people are shot at close range.

Two characters discuss and plot another man's murder throughout the film.

A woman describes her husband's physical abuse.

Quite a bit of smoking, cigarettes, and cigars.