Parents Guide for
South Pacific (1958) More at IMDbPro »

It is strongly implied that Lt. Cable (John Kerr) and the island girl Liat (France Nuyen) make love right after they are left alone in the hut by Bloody Mary (Juanita Hall); in the scene immediately following, Cable has his shirt off. The scene was deliberately ambiguous in the 1958 film in order to get past the censors.

Emile reveals to Nellie that he has had two children with a native woman out of wedlock.

The sailors lack the company of women and clearly want sex, but this had to be toned down for the 1958 film so that the censors wouldn't object.

There is some shooting; Lt. Cable is killed offscreen, and there is a comic scene, not in the play, in which Luther Billis (Ray Walston), in order to cause a diversion, parachutes out of a plane into the ocean and climbs on a rubber raft, while Japanese soldiers begin shooting at him, but miss.

Hardly any profanity, aside from one use of "hell".

There is talk of drinking.

There is a fairly intense moment when Nellie (Mitzi Gaynor) fears that Emile (Rosanno Brazzi) has been killed. We also learn that Liat knows nothing of Lt. Cable's death, and Nellie presumably tells her offscreen.

In an earlier intense moment, Nellie tells Emile she cannot marry him because of his interracial relationship with a native woman, who is now dead, but bore him two racially mixed children.