A man attempts to force himself on a woman, but he is stopped before an act of sexual violence is committed.
By 1960s standards, The Great Silence is an extremely violent film. Many people are killed in frequent gunfights, usually resulting in copious amounts of blood being drawn.
Two people's thumbs are shot off.
A man has a rope wrapped around his throat, and is dragged by his neck behind a horse.
Corpses are dragged around, hauled on top of stagecoaches, or buried under snow to preserve them.
The main character's throat is cut (off-screen), but survives. The resulting wound is seen infrequently.
Two characters engage in fisticuffs, one is hit in the face with a log, crashes through a door and gets a bloody cut on his lip.