Parents Guide for
Superman (1978) More at IMDbPro »

Brief full-frontal nudity of a male toddler.

Mild Violence (no gore)

Superman tangles with a few villains (in a comic book style). For instance, a man strikes Superman on the head with a crowbar, but he is of course completely unharmed while the attacker is shaken by the vibrations; a man is killed by a subway train (no gore is shown).

Infrequent use of mild language ("damn" and "hell").

Brief and infrequent.

Lois starts to light a cigarette, but Superman tells her that she shouldn't, so she stops.

Perry White and Lex Luthor both smoke cigars.

In the opening scene, three villains are sentenced to the "Phantom Zone", and the way they are transferred to this other dimension is intense.

The scene where Krypton is destroyed may scare young kids.

Lex Luthor kills a man with a subway train. We see his reactions and hear him scream as the train hits him.

A helicopter malfunctions, nearly killing its occupants in an extended sequence.

Thousands of people are put in peril by a nuclear missile that causes a massive earthquake that threatens to destroy the entire state of California as Superman races to stop the disaster.

Lois is trapped inside her car during an earthquake. She is suffocated by sand and mud, and dies (but Superman makes time turn back so that she doesn't suffer and die).