For a John Wayne Western, this movie is particularly Violent. The opening sequence shows several scenes of men being being brutally shot, a young boy shot, and a woman killed with a machete, though nothing is shown. Blood is seen but their is no gore. Not much more extensive violence until the end, when a man and a dog are killed with a machete (though nothing is shown) and several men are shot. One man is impaled on a pitchfork, although it isn't very graphic.