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(1969)

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Sex & Nudity

  • Jim and Carole kiss. It's innocent.

Violence & Gore

  • There are car crashes and car wrecks at the demolition derby race event in the opening of the film.
  • Thorndyke punches Jim in the face, and kicks Herbie twice
  • Herbie falls apart in the latter half of the film.

Profanity

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Thorndyke offers Jim some alcoholic beverage when first meeting him in his car salon, but when discovering that he is not a rich man looking for expensive cars, comically takes it back, enraged.
  • Two characters, one of them the driver of a car, share a bottle of champagne in the middle of a race.
  • A character smokes a cigarette.
  • Thorndyke and Tennessee get plastered off "Irish coffee", which Thorndyke pours down Herbie's gas tank, causing him to malfunction, or become a car version of drunk.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Herbie attempts suicide by trying to drive off the Golden Gate bridge. When Jim tries to stop him, he loses his balance and dangles from Herbie's bumper over the water. Fortunately, they're both saved in time.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • Herbie smashes up a new Lamborghini (suddendly transformed in a Jaguar E-Type) out of jealousy.

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