That seemed like it was intent on rocking the Hayes Code! Was that the first time that was used in a movie? And if so, how did they get away with that?
I asked the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.
Otto Preminger had broken that artistic ceiling three years earlier, in his superb Anatomy of a Murder (1959). In that one, a convict testifying for the prosecution claims that Lt. Manion (Ben Gazzara), on trial for murder, had told him that after he was acquitted, he was "going to kick that bitch from here to Kingdom Come," referring to his wife (Lee Remick). That was the first use of the word "bitch" in an American film, and even today it still feels like a slap across the face when you hear it.
Preminger was always challenging the Production Code and other taboos in Hollywood at this time. He released The Moon is Blue in 1953 without a certificate of approval and over the opposition of the Catholic Church because the film used words like "virgin", gave screen credit to the blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo for Exodus in 1960, and gave employment to other former blacklistees (including Will Geer and composer Jerry Fielding) for this film, among other things. Preminger was difficult and his films varied in quality, but he did help wreck both the Hays Code and the blacklist, all to his credit.
Personally, I thought the more risque aspect of that scene between Pidgeon and Tierney was when he took her in his arms on the couch, she says "I'm sleepy," and he rather maniacally says, "Are ya sleepy?" before grabbing her in a heavy kiss. Wow! We never saw Walter Pidgeon like that with Greer Garson.