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A Gun in His Hand
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A Gun in His Hand is a 1945 short film directed by Joseph Losey.It's part of MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series of short films that ran in the 1930s and 1940s. In this one Inspector Dana is leading newbie police academy recruits through a police museum. He points out one particular gun, and tells its story. It seems the gun belonged to Officer Dennis Nordell, a recruit who passed through the academy just like them. Nordell finished top of his class, donned his blue uniform, and put on his badge. The only problem is, Officer Nordell is a criminal, who joined the police force specifically to carry out a series of warehouse robberies. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: How Nordell uses wax to cast keys to break into warehouses. When Inspector Dana has all service revolvers confiscated for ballistics tests, Nordell is smug, because he didn't use his service revolver to kill Officer McGuinnes...but his service revolver has traces of the wax that he's been handing to make keys, and that's how they catch him. | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
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Bait-and-Switch: Nordell is called into Inspector Dana's office. He fears the worst, and he's obviously nervous when Dana says "I've been watching you, and the way it looks you won't be needing a uniform anymore." With his next breath Dana promotes Nordell to detective! Subverted in the end when it turns out that it was all a trick to catch Nordell. | |
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Detective Mole | |
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Detective Mole: Officer Nordell, who joins the police force so he can use his insider knowledge of the cops to commit crimes—beating Infernal Affairs to the punch by 57 years! | |
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