Five of the characters are involved one way or another in prostitution, but particular incidents are mentioned only in the briefest possible manner.

Most of the violent incidents occur before the film and are simply reported.

Threats are made using a knife, a broken bottle, and a gun.

A fight between two men breaks out, but it is broken up almost immediately.

There is significant use of coarse language (hell, damn, bastard, bejeezus, etc.) throughout the film, but it roles off the characters' tongues so naturally that one barely notices.

Racial and ethnic epithets are used frequently throughout but given little notice in keeping with the setting of a skid row bar in 1912.

Almost all the characters live in a bar where they go to bed drunk, get up drunk, and drink all day.

A suicide by jumping off a fire-escape is sudden enough to make the audience jump even though they're already expecting it..