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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The Finger Points is a 1931 film directed by John Francis Dillon.Breckenridge Lee (Richard Barthelmess) is a reporter from Savannah, Georgia. At the start of the movie he arrives in Chicago and gets a job at a big-time Chicago paper, "The Press". The Press has dedicated itself to rooting out the crime and corruption then engulfing the city. Breck gets a tip about an illegal casino. He writes a story which enrages the Chicago Outfit, and the mob gets revenge by sending two goons to give Breck a brutal beating.Breck emerges from a lengthy hospital stay flat broke, and unable to pay his hospital bills. Disillusioned, he goes to the mob and offers his services. Soon he's on the Chicago Outfit's payroll, killing stories and tipping the mob off to potential trouble. Breck makes a lot of money, but he starts to get too greedy.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Fay Wray plays Marcia, another reporter at The Press, who falls in love with Breck and is bitterly disappointed when she finds out he's on the take. None other than Clark Gable plays Louis Blanco, the gangster who puts Breck on the payroll. Gable was just hitting the big time in 1931, one year before he became a superstar with Red Dust. | |
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Downer Ending: Breck is killed by the mob, leaving Marcia brokenhearted. | |
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Foreshadowing: As Louis outlines how the mob wants Breck to kill stories, Breck wonders what will happen if another reporter gets the story. That's what happens in the end, as Breezy gets the story that Number One paid Breck $100,000 to bury, and the mob kills Breck in retribution. | |
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The Don: "Number One", The Faceless head of organized crime in Chicago. Obviously based on Al Capone. | |
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