A character is flogged off-screen. A young woman is about to be flogged, when it is suddenly stopped.

In this film's most infamous scene, Stan gets completely soused on home-made alcohol.

Ollie's wife a very mean woman. She puts down Ollie and Stan at every turn, hitting them and berating them. She openly has an affair with another man, which Ollie witnesses, but is too afraid to stand up to her. In the end, Mrs. Hardy kidnaps a little girl, lies to Ollie about being the father, then runs away with her boyfriend, leaving Ollie, and even informing him that he isn't the father.