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The Rocketeer

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The Rocketeer	comment	The Rocketeer is a 1991 Disney note released under the Walt Disney Pictures label in North America, and the Touchstone Pictures label overseas live-action film, adapted from Dave Stevens's series of comic books and directed by Joe Johnston. The Rocketeer follows the adventures of its titular hero: stunt pilot Cliff Secord, who uses a serendipitously found experimental rocket pack to fight crime in 1938 Los Angeles.It was nominated for a Hugo Award in 1992, but lost to Terminator 2: Judgment Day.On another note entirely, its primary musical theme by James Horner, Take Off, is practically a movie trailer standard.A computer-animated television series for Disney Junior premiered in 2019 and is a Broad Strokes Distant Sequel that focuses on Cliff Secord's great-grandaughter, Kit, who receives the helmet and rocket pack on her seventh birthday and becomes the new Rocketeer.A sequel was first announced in 2016, after 25 years after the original's release, but it wouldn't enter active development until 2021 with the casting of David Oyelowo in the title role. The new film, titled The Return of the Rocketeer, will be released as a Disney+ original.
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The Rocketeer / int_112890b3	type	Secret Identity
The Rocketeer / int_112890b3	comment	Secret Identity: Toyed with. The movie's compressed timespan (it takes place over the course of a mere three days) means that, over the course of the movie, Cliff's identity is a secret only in that it hasn't been publicly revealed, and not a lot of people have heard of the Rocketeer. There's no indication that he was trying particularly hard to keep it a secret—or even that he wanted to keep it a secret, long-term—and the film shows that anyone really interested in the Rocketeer's identity discovers it pretty quickly. In fact, when Cliff tells Jenny his big secret—that he's the Rocketeer—Jenny just says, "The Rock-a-who?"
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The Rocketeer / int_113480b7	type	Canon Foreigner
The Rocketeer / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: Jenny was created to replace Betty, Cliff's pinup model girlfriend in the comics, after Disney objected to including a character who was so sexualized and bore such a strong resemblance to a real, living person.
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The Rocketeer / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
The Rocketeer / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: In the comics, Peevy was quite older. Oddly, movie Peevy looks like how Malcolm (the pilot Cliff saves) looked in the comics, while movie Malcolm is elderly like comics Peevy.
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The Rocketeer / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
The Rocketeer / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: Neville Sinclair. He always lets others do most of the fighting for him, only getting physical himself when fighting Cliff in the climax. And the moment he has the jetpack, he abandons the zeppelin and his allies to escape.
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The Rocketeer / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
The Rocketeer / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Blink and you'll miss him, but that's Rocketeer creator Dave Stevens playing the test pilot in the German film Howard Hughes shows Cliff.
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The Rocketeer / int_12dd5755	type	Pursued Protagonist
The Rocketeer / int_12dd5755	comment	Pursued Protagonist: Well, pursued Punch-Clock Villain anyway. The second scene shows two Valentine Mooks with the jetpack MacGuffin fleeing from several police cars. One of them is quickly killed, while the other hides the jetpack in the protagonist's workplace (where he quickly finds it) before being captured.
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The Rocketeer / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
The Rocketeer / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: Some people said they didn't need to see the film, the trailer told the whole story.
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The Rocketeer / int_152b22ff	type	So Long, Suckers!
The Rocketeer / int_152b22ff	comment	So Long, Suckers!: A note-perfect example, complete with one-liner and swift, ironic death.
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The Rocketeer / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The Rocketeer / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: The Captain notes that the Zepplin's pilot is the best in the Reich. Almost immediately after, an unconscious Lothar swings into the gondola and knocks said pilot right out the other side.
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The Rocketeer / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
The Rocketeer / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Peevy. He may be old, but he is a Gadgeteer Genius who quickly figures out how to maintain and repair the rocketpack, and the climax shows he even knows how to make a better one.
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The Rocketeer / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
The Rocketeer / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: Eddie Valentine is protective of his fellow gangsters.
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The Rocketeer / int_1aa30797	type	Single Woman Seeks Good Man
The Rocketeer / int_1aa30797	comment	Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Jenny is briefly dazzled by Neville's charm and star power, but quickly returns to her long-term boyfriend because he loves and respects her. Also because Neville keeps trying to court her by quoting lines from his own movies. And then there's the evil—and not just any run-of-the-mill evil, but being a Nazi spy. Not the best dating tactic. Nor is chloroforming and kidnapping your date. And definitely not taking her hostage for a rocket pack, of all things.
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The Rocketeer / int_1b010521	type	Diesel Punk
The Rocketeer / int_1b010521	comment	Diesel Punk: The art direction has a lovely Deco Punk look.
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The Rocketeer / int_1b5fa24a	type	The Brute
The Rocketeer / int_1b5fa24a	comment	The Brute: Lothar, who is an Expy of Rondo Hatton, the actor on whom Universal build the Creeper.
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The Rocketeer / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
The Rocketeer / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Tiny Ron as one of the men who see Cliff fly by before crashing. Cliff and Peevy's bulldog friend from the comics appears in one scene, appropriately outside the Bulldog Cafe.
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The Rocketeer / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
The Rocketeer / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: Neville Sinclair. Lothar, too, as he's introduced listening to opera, drinking tea from a dainty gold-rimmed cup and enjoying sandwiches with the crusts cut off when Sinclair calls him.
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The Rocketeer / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
The Rocketeer / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: FBI agents Fitch and Wooly, who are always together and have a lot of humorous banter.
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The Rocketeer / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
The Rocketeer / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: "I'll MISS Hollywood..."note He did, instead crashing into and blowing up the 'LAND' letters of the sign.
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The Rocketeer / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
The Rocketeer / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: Eddie Valentine, kind of — he is a professional gangster, but he's only interested in the rocket because he's getting paid to get it by Sinclair and clearly doesn't particularly like him very much. Even before he discovers Sinclair's a Nazi. Lothar, albeit to a lesser extent. Though he's more loyal to Sinclair, he doesn't seem to be particularly invested in the Nazi party and only serves as an operative when on-call.
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The Rocketeer / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
The Rocketeer / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: Lothar in the comic was more tragic, blaming Cliff for the death of the woman he loved. In the film, he's a straight-up thug willfully working for Sinclair.
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The Rocketeer / int_216ca857	type	Not What I Signed on For
The Rocketeer / int_216ca857	comment	Not What I Signed on For: Valentine, when he learns that his boss, Sinclair, is a Nazi.
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The Rocketeer / int_21fd09a7	type	How Do I Shot Web?
The Rocketeer / int_21fd09a7	comment	How Do I Shot Web?: In his first flight, Cliff has considerable trouble with the jetpack, including accidentally ramming his head through the plane he was trying to intercept, repeatedly having to restart the pack in mid-air after turning off the power, buzzing too close to the ground and plowing through (rather than flying over) obstacles, and finally crashing into a body of water.
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The Rocketeer / int_22a60f6a	type	Nepotism
The Rocketeer / int_22a60f6a	comment	Nepotism: Jenny loses out on the speaking role she had a promising audition for, instead working as an extra, after the role is given to the producer's niece. This is revealed in a scene on the film set when the niece delivers the single line Jenny had told Cliff about...very, very badly.
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The Rocketeer / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Rocketeer / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The Nazi airship is briefly mentioned in a newsreel the characters watch at the opening of the film. You've probably forgotten all about it until it suddenly shows up overhead at the climax. The bullet hole in the rocket pack, which could have caused a fatal explosion if Peevy didn't notice and plug it before the pack was fired up. Sinclair does not notice when Cliff uncovers the hole before giving him the pack. Cliff's habit of chewing gum and putting a piece of chewed gum on his aircraft "for luck" saves his life by providing something to plug the bullet hole on the rocket pack and dooms Neville Sinclair's when Cliff can easily and subtly slides it back off before handing the pack over. So would this be Chekhov's gum?
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The Rocketeer / int_23a0a0d0	type	Dragon Their Feet
The Rocketeer / int_23a0a0d0	comment	Dragon Their Feet: Cliff knocks Lothar out in a quick fight atop the zeppelin, and then proceeds to take on Neville. Once he's killed, Lothar is shown to have regained consciousness and prepares to kill Cliff and Jenny before the zeppelin begins blowing up, killing the giant man while our heroes escape.
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The Rocketeer / int_246c5b47	type	Ascended Fanboy
The Rocketeer / int_246c5b47	comment	Ascended Fanboy: Jenny is a huge fan of Neville Sinclair who gets to work with him in a film.
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The Rocketeer / int_25b0342b	type	Art Deco
The Rocketeer / int_25b0342b	comment	Art Deco: The movie's poster, which serves as the image for this page, is one of the more famous examples of Art Deco movie posters in modern (say, post-1950 or so) cinema. The rest of the movie features a fair amount of Art Deco, being set in 1938 Los Angeles — the South Seas Club is the most prominent example.
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The Rocketeer / int_27725a69	type	Nice Character, Mean Actor
The Rocketeer / int_27725a69	comment	Nice Character, Mean Actor: Neville Sinclair is an Errol Flynn-style '30s action hero actor who turns out to be a Nazi spy, killing multiple people (enemy and ally alike) in his quest to steal the jetpack for his Nazi superiors so they can take over the world. He's short-tempered toward the young starlet who kept messing up her takes, got Jenny fired, and stabbed his co-star (not entirely accidentally, it's implied, although he was on-edge by then) when Cliff destroyed the set.
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The Rocketeer / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
The Rocketeer / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: Despite all of the plot developments and intrigue, it's implied that the entire movie takes place over approximately 48 hours.
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The Rocketeer / int_290dfb99	type	Chandler American Time
The Rocketeer / int_290dfb99	comment	Chandler American Time: The Golden Age Hollywood variant, all glam and grit.
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The Rocketeer / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Rocketeer / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: The German is left untranslated, though they got one bit of German wrong. At one point, the Nazi G-Man says "Ich habe meine Bestellung", which means "I have my orders", but "Bestellung" actually refers to the type of orders you'd give a waiter. He should've said "Befehle".
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The Rocketeer / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
The Rocketeer / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: In fact, everyone keeps calling the device in question "The Rocket" when everything that's shown tells us it's basically a jet engine. Completely justified by the fact that in 1938 "jet engine" was something that few people were aware of, and even fewer could have recognized one, while rockets were fairly well understood.
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The Rocketeer / int_297edb93	type	British Nazis
The Rocketeer / int_297edb93	comment	British Nazis: Subverted with Neville Sinclair (played by Timothy Dalton), who is revealed to be a Nazi spy — not a British one, but a German one.
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The Rocketeer / int_2a62c863	type	Hello Again, Officer
The Rocketeer / int_2a62c863	comment	Hello Again, Officer: Cliff keeps running into the same three feds...
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The Rocketeer / int_2ecf6052	type	Newsreel
The Rocketeer / int_2ecf6052	comment	Newsreel: Important exposition is given by the newsreel that Cliff and Jenny watch at the theater.
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The Rocketeer / int_2f50c5bf	type	Theme Music Power-Up
The Rocketeer / int_2f50c5bf	comment	Theme Music Power-Up: Towards the end, as Cliff picks up his helmet before flying after the zeppelin.
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The Rocketeer / int_2f665172	type	Come Alone
The Rocketeer / int_2f665172	comment	Come Alone: Cliff is summoned to the Griffith Park Observatory and told to come alone or they'll kill Jenny.
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The Rocketeer / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Rocketeer / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Eddie Valentine quits working for Sinclair after finding out he's a Nazi. Reflects Truth in Television, as a lot of Real Life American gangsters during that era weren't too thrilled with fascism. In fact, gangsters were the police forces' biggest allies in weeding out Nazi supporters. This is due to Mussolini persecuting the Sicilian Families back in the Old Country. Even before The Reveal of Sinclair's actual motivations, Valentine is quite resentful of him due to his other tactics:
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The Rocketeer / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
The Rocketeer / int_35022c20	comment	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: Justified. The rocket pack we see is the prototype; Howard Hughes burns the plans ten minutes into the movie out of despair thinking that it was destroyed, but Peevy draws new ones, with plans to build an improved version. It's also worth noting that the prototype didn't work before Peevy tweaked the design.
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The Rocketeer / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
The Rocketeer / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: In-universe: at the end, after Sinclair has been exposed as a Nazi spy, his natural German accent begins increasingly slipping through his otherwise hitherto impeccable English accent as he gets more frustrated with things, until he ends up just doing a full Accent Relapse.
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The Rocketeer / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Rocketeer / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: During the fight scene on board the zeppelin Cliff says to Neville, "Where's your stuntman now, Sinclair?" which Neville replies "I do my own stunts." This line is in reference to Timothy Dalton's time as James Bond, since he is known for being the only Bond actor to perform most of his own stunts.
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The Rocketeer / int_3bc92960	type	Flag Drop
The Rocketeer / int_3bc92960	comment	Flag Drop: Near the end, there's a scene where the character stands in front of an American flag and has a spotlight shine on him before a dramatic fiery takeoff. For better or for worse, he's about to go fight some Nazis.
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The Rocketeer / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Rocketeer / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: When their car gets shot up in the opening scene, the FBI duo mention that this is the third time that's happened this month, and after their mission ends in failure, one of them says that it's his partner's turn to call their boss and report failure. Peevy's last long-ago romantic entanglement.
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The Rocketeer / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
The Rocketeer / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: Cliff and Peevy were a bit more grumpy jerks in the comics, as well as Cliff needing help to save the day.
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The Rocketeer / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
The Rocketeer / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: Sinclair targets Jenny as a way to get to her boyfriend, Cliff, first with seduction, because Sinclair doesn't know who Cliff is and needs to find out who has the jetpack, and then by drugging and kidnapping her to lure the Rocketeer to him. The Rocketeer needs to intervene in both cases. However, Jenny, while requiring rescue, does a lot to help save herself. In fact, the reason she doesn't escape before being kidnapped was that she went back to help Cliff when he was cornered in the club, and she hit Lothar in the back of the head with a statuette to stop him from shooting Cliff.
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The Rocketeer / int_4516e091	comment	Parrot Expo-WHAT?: "The Rock-a-who?"
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The Rocketeer / int_46e53efd	type	Screams Like a Little Girl
The Rocketeer / int_46e53efd	comment	Screams Like a Little Girl: Sinclair screams like this when the rocketpack on him explodes and engulfs him in a fireball, after which he is hurled into the "-LAND" letters of the Hollywoodland sign.
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The Rocketeer / int_4712bc4f	type	Exact Eavesdropping
The Rocketeer / int_4712bc4f	comment	Exact Eavesdropping: Sinclair hears Cliff talking to Jenny about the rocketpack on the set of his latest movie.
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The Rocketeer / int_477bcc9f	type	Greasy Spoon
The Rocketeer / int_477bcc9f	comment	Greasy Spoon: The Bulldog CafÃ©, itself based off of a real-life cafÃ© of the same name, which stood from 1928 to 1955.
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The Rocketeer / int_489f14dd	type	Glamorous Wartime Singer
The Rocketeer / int_489f14dd	comment	Glamorous Wartime Singer: One is performing at the South Seas Club (though technically it's not quite wartime yet).
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The Rocketeer / int_4a24fd45	type	Thermal Dissonance
The Rocketeer / int_4a24fd45	comment	Thermal Dissonance: The rocketpack stays cool even after flight, attributed to a double-walled chamber and preheated fuel.
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The Rocketeer / int_4f8037fd	type	Mookâ€“Face Turn
The Rocketeer / int_4f8037fd	comment	Mookâ€“Face Turn: Eddie Valentine, because working for a Nazi is not what he signed on for.
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The Rocketeer / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Rocketeer / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: When one of the Nazis insults Neville by calling him an "actor", Neville responds by shooting him out of the zeppelin.
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The Rocketeer / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
The Rocketeer / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: Jenny delivers one after clocking Neville as part of her attempt to seduce him and escape. Neville Sinclair delivers one himself to the captain of the Luxembourg. Made even funnier by the fact that at the time the film was made, Timothy Dalton actually WAS Bond. Moments after the zeppelin's captain states that they are losing altitude and must "drop some weight," Sinclair, fed up with the Gestapo agent badgering him, pulls a pistol and shoots the agent, causing him to fall to his death through an open window. When the captain gives him a horrified look, Sinclair, after thinking for a moment, quips:
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The Rocketeer / int_51c28ba3	type	Non-Action Big Bad
The Rocketeer / int_51c28ba3	comment	Non-Action Big Bad: Subverted. Neville Sinclair usually lets his minions do all the fighting for him, but is perfectly capable of getting his hands dirty if he has to:
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The Rocketeer / int_520680ca	type	Not Wearing Tights
The Rocketeer / int_520680ca	comment	Not Wearing Tights: Since he's not actually a superhero, but a pulp hero, Cliff just wears normal pilot gear as the Rocketeer.
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The Rocketeer / int_53407671	type	Action Survivor
The Rocketeer / int_53407671	comment	Action Survivor: Cliff is just a stunt pilot trying to make a living. Even when he picks up the jetpack, it's only for the purpose of flying it at a show to recoup some of the losses of his crashed plane (and to have some fun, since he loves flying). But when a friend is aloft in a floundering airplane, he immediately grabs the jetpack that they've never flown manned to rescue him, and when his girlfriend is in danger, he insists on going to rescue her rather than leaving it to the authorities. The fact that his skill is as a pilot, not a fighter, is highlighted towards the end, when he ends up in a fist-fight against the Big Bad, an actor who does his own stunts, and promptly gets knocked all over the room.
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The Rocketeer / int_538a096f	type	Burning the Flag
The Rocketeer / int_538a096f	comment	Burning the Flag: A Nazi propaganda film which shows their rocket soldiers attacking America has a burning American flag falling to the ground as the Nazi banner rises in its place. This gets an Ironic Echo when the swastika emblazoned on the Luxembourg's tailfin is consumed by flames.
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The Rocketeer / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
The Rocketeer / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Lothar also plays this to Neville, being his closest accomplice and the one tasked to find the rocket. Eddie Valentine also seems to be this, as he takes many orders from Sinclair, however, when he finds out Sinclair is really a German sleeper agent, Valentine has a Hell Face Turn and fights with the FBI against Sinclair and the german forces.
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The Rocketeer / int_548bd053	type	Guns Akimbo
The Rocketeer / int_548bd053	comment	Guns Akimbo: Lothar's preferred combat choice.
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The Rocketeer / int_55d38296	type	Weird Historical War
The Rocketeer / int_55d38296	comment	Weird Historical War: Most of the plot involves the struggle to get the jetpack, which would invoke this if the Germans mass-produce it (jetpack-wearing FallschirmjÃ¤ger = Take Over the World).
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The Rocketeer / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
The Rocketeer / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: The question Cliff asks to Eddie Valentine about whether he's paid in dollars or Deutschmarks is anachronistic, since it refers to a currency which didn't exist in 1938. The Deutsche Mark didn't exist until 1948; in 1938, the German currency was named Reichsmark. In the movie, airship travel is still a thing in 1938, when in Real Life, it ended for good in 1937 after the Hindenburg Disaster. At the end of the film, the Nazi commandos are shown using MP-40s, which would not be introduced for two years. Cliff escapes from Howard Hughes's offices by briefly using a scale model of the "Spruce Goose" as a glider. In reality development of the aircraft did not begin until 1942.
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The Rocketeer / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
The Rocketeer / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: When the FBI shows up in the Climax, Valentine and his men pick up their guns and open fire on the Nazis. During the fight, Valentine finds himself sanding alongside an FBI agent. They glance at each other, Valentine grins weakly, and they resume firing.
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The Rocketeer / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Rocketeer / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: The police don't really get involved until they show up during the standoff between the Nazis and the mob.
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The Rocketeer / int_599ad6d5	type	Contrived Clumsiness
The Rocketeer / int_599ad6d5	comment	Contrived Clumsiness: Cliff does this when he's at the South Seas Club, where Jenny is with Neville Sinclair, who's looking for the rocketpack. He "accidentally" spills some champagne on Jenny just before she tells Neville about him and how he's got the rocketpack.
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The Rocketeer / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
The Rocketeer / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: A variation: Neville Sinclair voluntarily flies out of the zeppelin with the rocketpack, but its fuel leak causes it to burst into a massive fireball, causing Neville to fall crashing into the Hollywoodland sign and explode spectacularly.
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The Rocketeer / int_5c9caf26	type	Civvie Spandex
The Rocketeer / int_5c9caf26	comment	Civvie Spandex: The Rocketeer's "costume" is actually fairly mundane pilot garb for the 1930's. The only truly remarkable thing about it is the helmet and the jetpack.
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The Rocketeer / int_5deb34da	type	Ace Pilot
The Rocketeer / int_5deb34da	comment	Ace Pilot: Played straight with Cliff, a stunt pilot; implied as the backstory for Malcolm, allegedly a World War I ace, but now in his dotage.
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The Rocketeer / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
The Rocketeer / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: Subverted; Neville tries to seduce Jenny, but his chat-up lines are all from his own movies which Jenny (as an avid fan) knows off by heart. The Bookcase Passage to Neville's Nazi communications room was even opened by a book called The Conquests of Casanova.
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The Rocketeer / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
The Rocketeer / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: The comic's plot mostly consisted of Cliff trying to evade the government agents searching for the jetpack, until the end where he's the only one who can stop Nazi spies from stealing an experimental aircraft. In the comic, the jetpack was invented by classic pulp hero Doc Savage, and he and his crew show up in person searching for it, but they're left unnamed. Peevy mistakes them for eccentric tycoon Howard Hughes and his associates. The movie simplifies things by making Howard Hughes the actual inventor. For obvious reasons, Dave Stevens's fanservice drawings of women in skimpy clothing didn't quite make the cut. Cliff's love interest is made into less of a transparent expy of Bettie Page (though she's still made up to resemble her), so she becomes an aspiring actress instead of a model.
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The Rocketeer / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
The Rocketeer / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: The bad guys kidnap Jenny as leverage to get Cliff to give them the rocket pack.
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The Rocketeer / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
The Rocketeer / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: Jenny returns Peevy's reverse-engineered rocketpack schematics. "Oh, no," groans Peevy.
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The Rocketeer / int_631c7c38	type	Silent Antagonist
The Rocketeer / int_631c7c38	comment	Silent Antagonist: Lothar only says four things in the whole film note "Yes?", "Where is it?", "The rocket" and "Palm Terrace (Cliff's street)" . The only other times he's not quiet are when he's grunting, growling or laughing.
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The Rocketeer / int_63b12059	type	Villainous Friendship
The Rocketeer / int_63b12059	comment	Villainous Friendship: Neville and Lothar seem to have this. Neville sounds distressed when seeing Lothar's unconscious body on the zeppelin.
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The Rocketeer / int_65331274	type	Flynning
The Rocketeer / int_65331274	comment	Flynning: During the filming of a movie with Neville Sinclair
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The Rocketeer / int_65c0f3fa	type	Dance of Romance
The Rocketeer / int_65c0f3fa	comment	Dance of Romance: Neville Sinclair attempts to invoke this in his seduction of Jenny at the South Seas Club. It doesn't stick.
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The Rocketeer / int_697b5232	type	Those Wacky Nazis
The Rocketeer / int_697b5232	comment	Those Wacky Nazis: The real bad guys of the film. This is foreshadowed at the beginning of the film, when Cliff and Jenny go to the cinema.
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The Rocketeer / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Rocketeer / int_6b2b3b59	comment	Even before The Reveal of Sinclair's actual motivations, Valentine is quite resentful of him due to his other tactics:
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The Rocketeer / int_6b4f4350	type	Zeppelins from Another World
The Rocketeer / int_6b4f4350	comment	Zeppelins from Another World: Since it's only a slightly alternate version of The '30s, the Germans use a zeppelin to visit 1938 Los Angeles (when in fact airship travel ended in the previous year with the Hindenburg).
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The Rocketeer / int_6b6556ee	type	Mentor Occupational Hazard
The Rocketeer / int_6b6556ee	comment	Mentor Occupational Hazard: Averted—Peevy makes it to the end.
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The Rocketeer / int_6bdf39ae	type	Master Actor
The Rocketeer / int_6bdf39ae	comment	Master Actor: German sleeper agent Neville Sinclair not only flawlessly delivers a perfect Welsh accent, but he's so deep into his persona that he's honed his skills and played the Hollywood system so perfectly he's worked his way up to being the number three box office star/draw in America out of THE REST OF HOLLYWOOD.
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The Rocketeer / int_6bf93fc7	type	FanService
The Rocketeer / int_6bf93fc7	comment	Fanservice: Jennifer Connelly, as she puts on a stocking; her cleavage in the latter parts of the movie. Or basically, just Jennifer Connelly.
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The Rocketeer / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
The Rocketeer / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Lothar, which sounds like Lothario, a philanderer from Don Quijote, which this guy is anything but.
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The Rocketeer / int_6ea8ff42	type	Today, X. Tomorrow, the World!
The Rocketeer / int_6ea8ff42	comment	Today, X. Tomorrow, the World!: The Nazi propaganda cartoon ends its montage of conquest via jetpack-propelled soldiers with "Today Europe, Tomorrow the World" (in German, of course: "Heute Europa, Morgen die Welt").
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The Rocketeer / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
The Rocketeer / int_736d791f	comment	Adaptational Badass: Cliff Secord between the comic book (in which he was assisted by other pulp heroes) and the movie (which he actually saved other people, mostly by himself).
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The Rocketeer / int_746bfee8	type	Vanilla Edition
The Rocketeer / int_746bfee8	comment	Vanilla Edition: The laserdisc, DVD, and Blu-Ray releases were all this, even the "20th Anniversary Edition".
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The Rocketeer / int_7598fec1	type	Stocking Filler
The Rocketeer / int_7598fec1	comment	Stocking Filler: Jenny wears these in her first scene.
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The Rocketeer / int_79d3af43	type	Look Ma, No Plane!
The Rocketeer / int_79d3af43	comment	Look Ma, No Plane!: During Cliff's first flight, he encounters a plane full of startled people. He even attempts a salute.
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The Rocketeer / int_7a3aa8ea	type	You Must Be Cold
The Rocketeer / int_7a3aa8ea	comment	You Must Be Cold: Jenny is given a jacket to wear over her evening gown when she is taken aboard the airship.
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The Rocketeer / int_7b3ebb57	type	Buxom Beauty Standard
The Rocketeer / int_7b3ebb57	comment	Buxom Beauty Standard: Jenny's stunning late 1930s evening dress accentuates Jennifer Connolly's already legendary figure to a superb degree, deeply impressing WC Fields (a subtle allusion to Howard Hughes designing Jane Russell's cleavage enhancing top in 'The Outlaw').
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The Rocketeer / int_7b50237d	type	Distinction Without a Difference
The Rocketeer / int_7b50237d	comment	Distinction Without a Difference: When Cliff and Peevy first discover the rocket pack, which Peevy thinks they should return to its owner immediately, because the feds are involved, while Cliff wants to use it for the air race:
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The Rocketeer / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
The Rocketeer / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Cliff asking Eddie Valentine, "What's it like working for a Nazi? Does he pay you in dollars or Deutschmarks?"
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The Rocketeer / int_7d1ee5b2	type	Trojan Horse
The Rocketeer / int_7d1ee5b2	comment	Trojan Horse: The Luxembourg airship, ostensibly in Los Angeles for peaceful purposes.
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The Rocketeer / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
The Rocketeer / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: Neville Sinclair shoots a Gestapo agent - his erstwhile ally if not superior - when the latter, furious over how badly their mission has gone awry, delivers one insult too many.
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The Rocketeer / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The Rocketeer / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Jenny was about to take a taxi home from the South Seas Club when Cliff had to fly into the ballroom and trash the place, piquing her curiosity and getting herself kidnapped by Sinclair.
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The Rocketeer / int_82b48dc	type	Stupid Jetpack Hitler
The Rocketeer / int_82b48dc	comment	Stupid Jetpack Hitler: Howard Hughes explains why it's so important to return the jetpack to him and prevent it from falling into the wrong hands by revealing a Nazi propaganda film centered on their plan to use jetpack-equipped soldiers to take over the world.
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The Rocketeer / int_83445b04	type	Pun
The Rocketeer / int_83445b04	comment	Cliff's habit of chewing gum and putting a piece of chewed gum on his aircraft "for luck" saves his life by providing something to plug the bullet hole on the rocket pack and dooms Neville Sinclair's when Cliff can easily and subtly slides it back off before handing the pack over. So would this be Chekhov's gum?
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The Rocketeer / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
The Rocketeer / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Cliff is Red to Peevey's Blue.
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The Rocketeer / int_8494bcb3	type	Disposable Pilot
The Rocketeer / int_8494bcb3	comment	Disposable Pilot: As Neville Sinclair is making his escape aboard a Nazi zeppelin, the captain tells Sinclair that their pilot is the best in Germany, when Lothar's unconscious body knocks the pilot out of the zeppelin.
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The Rocketeer / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
The Rocketeer / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Jenny is a huge fan of Neville Sinclair until she sees he's a creep. And a Nazi spy.
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The Rocketeer / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
The Rocketeer / int_875615dd	comment	Eddie Valentine quits working for Sinclair after finding out he's a Nazi. Reflects Truth in Television, as a lot of Real Life American gangsters during that era weren't too thrilled with fascism. In fact, gangsters were the police forces' biggest allies in weeding out Nazi supporters. This is due to Mussolini persecuting the Sicilian Families back in the Old Country.
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The Rocketeer / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
The Rocketeer / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Neville Sinclair, though secretly a Nazi spy, is a beloved, famous actor in the vein of Errol Flynn.
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The Rocketeer / int_8acf3a97	type	Spreading Disaster Map Graphic
The Rocketeer / int_8acf3a97	comment	Spreading Disaster Map Graphic: A Nazi propaganda film shows German troops equipped with Jet Packs flying to the attack, with maps showing arrows representing them reaching out to conquer Europe and invade the U.S. It currently provides the trope's page image.
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The Rocketeer / int_8bce92b0	type	Buzzing the Deck
The Rocketeer / int_8bce92b0	comment	Buzzing the Deck: Cliff buzzes a road near the beginning which happens to have a shooting chase between mobsters and the police. One of the mobsters sees the plane and shoots at it, damaging its engine and controls.
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The Rocketeer / int_8c7a3a45	type	Are We Getting This?
The Rocketeer / int_8c7a3a45	comment	Are We Getting This?: When the Rocketeer makes his debut appearance at the airshow to rescue Malcolm, surprised cameramen struggle to follow the action. The cameraman asked replies that he may not know what it is, but he is getting it.
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The Rocketeer / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Rocketeer / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Bigalow is folded in half by Lothar, but he did mockingly bill Cliff and Peevy for accident damage that wasn't their fault and showed complete disregard for the safety of his guests and pilots during an air show mishap.
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The Rocketeer / int_904bf4e	type	Wasn't That Fun?
The Rocketeer / int_904bf4e	comment	Wasn't That Fun?: After his first flight with the jetpack, Cliff simply says "I like it!"
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The Rocketeer / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
The Rocketeer / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Sinclair has it when he learns the jig is up and he is revealed as a Nazi. It first happens when he catches Jenny reading up on it and kidnaps her for real (and not having to fake it anymore). It then becomes more obvious when Cliff manages to convince Valentine and his gang that Sinclair, their boss, is a Nazi. When the gangsters confront their former boss with this information, not only does Sinclair confirm this by holding them all hostage with a new gang, a group of Nazi soldiers lurking in the shadows, but he does all this while speaking — nay, screaming, rather abruptly in German!
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The Rocketeer / int_9600368d	type	Behind the Black
The Rocketeer / int_9600368d	comment	Behind the Black: Almost literally, as the enormous airship, the Luxembourg, suddenly looms out of the night from behind the Griffith Observatory, surprising the characters as well as the audience.
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The Rocketeer / int_960810e8	type	Recycled Trailer Music
The Rocketeer / int_960810e8	comment	Recycled Trailer Music: This movie may not be very well-remembered, but unless you haven't been to a movie theater since 1991, you absolutely have heard this score used in trailers for dozens hundreds of other movies. Have a listen.
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The Rocketeer / int_967c590f	type	Kitchen Chase
The Rocketeer / int_967c590f	comment	Kitchen Chase: Cliff Secord is chased by Lothar and other gangsters through the kitchen of the South Seas Club. Justified as Cliff was disguised as a waiter.
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The Rocketeer / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Rocketeer / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Neville Sinclair is the man who wants to get the rocket. He hired Eddie Valentine and his gang to steal it and gives orders to Lothar to find it. He is a Nazi, and working to get the rocket to his superiors to use for world domination.
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The Rocketeer / int_9aaad071	type	HA HA HAâ€”No
The Rocketeer / int_9aaad071	comment	HA HA HAâ€”No: A pretty terrifying example: When Eddie confronts Sinclair with the knowledge that he had been working for a Nazi spy all along and demands that he let Jenny go, Sinclair laughs off Eddie's threat and then abruptly calls out - in German - a bunch of Nazi Storm Troopers to hold Eddie's men at gunpoint and confiscate the rocket pack.
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The Rocketeer / int_9afa05c7	type	Family-Unfriendly Death
The Rocketeer / int_9afa05c7	comment	Family-Unfriendly Death: Sinclair gets burned alive by the exploding rocket pack and falls to his death in a fiery explosion.
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The Rocketeer / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
The Rocketeer / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: Sinclair is the main bad guy in this plot, but behind him, and looming over the rest of the world is the Third Reich.
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The Rocketeer / int_9b5b5a14	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Famous!
The Rocketeer / int_9b5b5a14	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Famous!: Neville Sinclair gloats about this when his gangster henchman threatens to squeal.
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The Rocketeer / int_9c4003a1	type	One True Love
The Rocketeer / int_9c4003a1	comment	One True Love: Jenny is immensely supportive of Cliff's job as a pilot and he's supportive of her working toward becoming an actress too. When we initally meet each of them, they have a picture of the other that they clearly cherish, and Cliff actually makes it a point to save his picture of Jenny from his burning, crashed plane. He doesn't tell Jenny about it because he didn't want her to worry about him, and she's upset because Cliff didn't trust her about it. He tries to tell Jenny about the jetpack after he's found it because he wants to show he can trust her and she eventually believes him about the danger before Sinclair abducts her. Cliff is willing to at first fight the Nazis to rescue her, willingly gives the rocket to Sinclair in exchange for her safety and Jenny helps Cliff to fight Sinclair and the others while also stealing plans for the rocket which she then provides later so it can be rebuilt. When Howard Hughes asks him about how flying the rocket felt, Cliff comes quickly to the realization that it's probably second compared to the love he has for Jenny.
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The Rocketeer / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Rocketeer / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: At the beginning, when Cliff's plane is shot and he's struggling to keep it flying, he passes above an ad for Wings of Honor, Neville Sinclair's latest movie. The newsreel that's playing as Cliff and Jenny arrive at the cinema for their date takes on significance at the end when it's revealed the Nazis are behind everything, and the Zeppelin being touted in the reel shows up loaded with Nazi commandos. "Chewing gum ain't gonna keep you up in the air!" (It will when there's a bullet hole in your jetpack's fuel tank, and no time for a better fix!)
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The Rocketeer / int_9d137658	type	The Chanteuse
The Rocketeer / int_9d137658	comment	The Chanteuse: The South Seas Club singer has the Pimped-Out Dress and melancholic singing voice required for the role.
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The Rocketeer / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
The Rocketeer / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Lothar. Cliff hurts himself when he tries to low blow him.
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The Rocketeer / int_9e03dbd6	type	Mr. Fixit
The Rocketeer / int_9e03dbd6	comment	Mr. Fixit: Peevy, who is even stated by Cliff to be "able to fix anything". He even out-engineers Howard Hughes himself.
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The Rocketeer / int_9e9af83b	type	Middle-Management Mook
The Rocketeer / int_9e9af83b	comment	Middle-Management Mook: Eddie Valentine, leader of the Valentine Gang; he and his gang have been hired by Sinclair.
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The Rocketeer / int_a18fda9c	type	Dumb Muscle
The Rocketeer / int_a18fda9c	comment	Dumb Muscle: Lothar is an aversion. Despite looking the type, he's a competent thug and shown to be even Wicked Cultured. Also averted with Eddie's men. He clearly makes it a point to surround himself with people who are not only loyal, but smart. They're capable of thinking quickly on their feet and dealing with unexpected situations. This is made clear during the confrontation when Cliff accuses Neville of being a Nazi. While Neville is denying it and trying to sweet-talk Eddie, Lothar tries to inconspicuously reach into his pockets for his gun. He stops when one of Eddie's men, acting without even a word from Eddie, shoves the barrel of a Tommy Gun into his ribs. "Relax, Frankenstein. You ain't bulletproof." Like Eddie, each of his men has quickly figured out they're being played for suckers. And like Eddie, they don't work for no Nazis.
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The Rocketeer / int_a39d6056	type	Nice to the Waiter
The Rocketeer / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: Sinclair snaps at a waiter (a disguised Cliff) for spilling soup and shoves various studio workers out of his way while looking for Cliff.
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The Rocketeer / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
The Rocketeer / int_a8559a9f	comment	In the movie, airship travel is still a thing in 1938, when in Real Life, it ended for good in 1937 after the Hindenburg Disaster.
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The Rocketeer / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
The Rocketeer / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: But only slightly so. Everything's mostly the same as it was in our 1938, except Howard Hughes has invented a jetpack, the Germans still use zeppelins, and the Hollywoodland sign ends up losing the "-land" eleven years early. The later parts of the movies also hint of World War II starting off differently and the rocket's blueprints technically out in the open.
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The Rocketeer / int_a8826e1e	type	Giant Mook
The Rocketeer / int_a8826e1e	comment	Giant Mook: Lothar towers over most of the other characters. Not surprising since he is being played by 7ft tall Ron Taylor.
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The Rocketeer / int_a8c7bf13	type	Sickbed Slaying
The Rocketeer / int_a8c7bf13	comment	Sickbed Slaying: Lothar literally folds one of Valentine's men in half to prevent him from talking to the FBI after he already scared the location of the rocket out of him.
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The Rocketeer / int_a9b10a62	type	Think Nothing of It
The Rocketeer / int_a9b10a62	comment	Think Nothing of It: Hughes turns up to show off a new Gee Bee plane (like the one destroyed at the beginning) that Cliff and company admire, before casually tossing Cliff a pack of his favorite gum with an enigmatic "Oh! Don't ever fly her without this" and slipping away as someone uncovers the pilot's name painted on the side of the plane: Cliff Secord. Cliff is distraught that he didn't get a chance to thank him, but Peevy assures him he didn't need to: "He saw the look on your face."
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The Rocketeer / int_aa00479	type	Toasted Buns
The Rocketeer / int_aa00479	comment	Toasted Buns: The film only briefly attempts to Handwave why a jetpack doesn't burn the pilot...Unless, of course, it's leaking fuel and visibly engulfs him in flames.
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The Rocketeer / int_ab17e948	type	Don't Touch It, You Idiot!
The Rocketeer / int_ab17e948	comment	Don't Touch It, You Idiot!: As Cliff reaches out to touch the rocket pack for the first time, Peevy tells him, "I wouldn't touch that if I were you!"
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The Rocketeer / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
The Rocketeer / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: Sinclair tries to seduce Jenny, but his lines are just dialogue from movies he's acted in. Being a dedicated fan, Jenny quickly realises this.
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The Rocketeer / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Rocketeer / int_ad1db87c	comment	The Nazi airship is briefly mentioned in a newsreel the characters watch at the opening of the film. You've probably forgotten all about it until it suddenly shows up overhead at the climax.
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The Rocketeer / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Rocketeer / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Peevy makes quite some snarky comments. Cliff has his moments, too.
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The Rocketeer / int_affbcbb	type	Cool Helmet
The Rocketeer / int_affbcbb	comment	Cool Helmet: The Rocketeer's helmet is a bold bronze color with distinctive decorative ridges and a big dorsal fin used as a rudder to enable him to steer. (Looks pretty good for something Peevy made out of a cut-up radio casing...)
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The Rocketeer / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
The Rocketeer / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Jennifer Connelly at her peak. Well, as much as a 21-year-old can peak.
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The Rocketeer / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
The Rocketeer / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Early in the film, mentioned by name, when the FBI and LAPD are chasing after Eddie's goons, one of the FBI agents wishes the "black and white" (the cop car) would get out of the way so he could fire on Eddie's men. After the cop car wrecks, it exposes the agents to Eddie's men's Tommy gun. Jenny finds her romantic life with Cliff lacking, as they just tend to go to the same places and hang out at the Bulldog cafe with the same people, while she longs for more glamor and excitement. But when she gets a date with Neville Sinclair and is taken to a lavish restaurant, she finds that he's a tremendous bore, only able to recite lines from his own films to romance her and is leered at by other patrons.
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The Rocketeer / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
The Rocketeer / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: Many times; played with in that the victims sometimes recover faster than their assailants were planning.
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The Rocketeer / int_b47d95be	type	No OSHA Compliance
The Rocketeer / int_b47d95be	comment	No OSHA Compliance: The zeppelin does not even have so much as a handrail in front of its rather fragile windows, causing several characters to be pushed into a window and out of the blimp.
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The Rocketeer / int_b5619979	type	Was It All a Lie?
The Rocketeer / int_b5619979	comment	Was It All a Lie?: Variation. "It wasn't lies, Jenny. It was acting!"
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The Rocketeer / int_b7978bb4	type	Deadly Sparring
The Rocketeer / int_b7978bb4	comment	Deadly Sparring: Neville Sinclair's Establishing Character Moment shows him filming an action scene of his latest movie, where his heroic character is engaged in a sword fight against a villain. When the actor portraying the villain is stabbed for real, the director yells "cut," and the other actor accuses Sinclair of hogging all the attention for himself, an accusation that Sinclair neither confirms nor denies, and then Sinclair asks his driver to use his limo to take the actor to the hospital.
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The Rocketeer / int_b9fc31d3	type	Victoria's Secret Compartment
The Rocketeer / int_b9fc31d3	comment	Victoria's Secret Compartment: Where Jenny hides the rocket pack plans.
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The Rocketeer / int_bc46a33a	type	Remaster
The Rocketeer / int_bc46a33a	comment	Remaster: The 20th Anniversary Blu-Ray release. Its HD picture looks especially remarkable in comparison to the Pan and Scan VHS and non-anamorphic Letterbox laserdisc and DVD.
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The Rocketeer / int_bd79d896	type	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
The Rocketeer / int_bd79d896	comment	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: Theft of prototype rocket-pack â†’ Nazi aerial invasion of the world.
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The Rocketeer / int_c00484eb	type	Accent Relapse
The Rocketeer / int_c00484eb	comment	Accent Relapse: Neville Sinclair speaks perfect English in an upper-class English accent during the whole movie — until he is exposed as a Nazi spy, after which he reverts to speaking in a German accent.
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The Rocketeer / int_c027dd64	type	Kicking Ass in All Her Finery
The Rocketeer / int_c027dd64	comment	Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: Jenny spends nearly half of the movie wearing a fancy white evening gown. During that time, she whacks two villains over the head, nearly escapes from Sinclair's mansion, and knocks a Nazi out of the zeppelin to his death after a struggle.
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The Rocketeer / int_c180f1cb	type	Advertising by Association
The Rocketeer / int_c180f1cb	comment	Advertising by Association: The 20th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray associates Joe Johnston with Captain America: The First Avenger — another pulpy Live-Action Adaptation of a comic in which a superhero fights Nazis — on the back, and in a sticker on the front of the shrinkwrap.
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The Rocketeer / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
The Rocketeer / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: A villainous example. Valentine may be working for Neville Sinclair, but it's clear that he doesn't hold him in high regard. Finding out Sinclair is a Nazi doesn't improve his opinion of him, either.
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The Rocketeer / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
The Rocketeer / int_c41668cd	comment	Needle in a Stack of Needles: When Cliff arrives at the South Seas Club, he hides the rocket and helmet in a laundry bag in the laundry room. When he returns, he finds the room full of a dozen more bags.
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The Rocketeer / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Cliff never flies without some Beeman's Gum, just like Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff. It's also Truth in Television, as Beeman's was long considered the lucky gum of pilots. In the air show, the announcer refers to Secord as "the Fearless Freep", a reference to the Looney Tunes cartoon short "High Diving Hare." An anachronism, as "High Diving Hare" came out in 1949 and The Rocketeer is set eleven years earlier. The Nazi agent who meets Sinclair on the Zeppelin looks exactly like Toht from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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The Rocketeer / int_c90f4021	comment	Lethally Expensive: When Howard Hughes shows Cliff the Nazi propaganda film, he says "Keep watching, kid. It cost a man's life to get this out of Germany."
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The Rocketeer / int_ca720408	comment	They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich: Averted. When Cliff runs out of the diner to try and stop Jenny from leaving in a huff, he takes his hamburger with him.
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The Rocketeer / int_cd0637d2	comment	Extra! Extra! Read All About It!: After the Rocketeer's first appearance, a scene shows kids selling newspapers in this manner.
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The Rocketeer / int_ce27dc3f	comment	Protagonist Title: Who else, but Cliff "The Rocketeer" Secord.
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The Rocketeer / int_ce28f525	type	Wag the Director
The Rocketeer / int_ce28f525	comment	Wag the Director: In-universe, Sinclair gets Jenny fired after Cliff accidentally destroyed the set of The Laughing Bandit looking for her.
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The Rocketeer / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
The Rocketeer / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: A slight case — in the comic, Cliff's girlfriend is a nude model named "Betty" after pin-up icon Bettie Page; in the movie she's Jenny Blake, who works as a film extra.
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The Rocketeer / int_cf511248	type	All Part of the Show
The Rocketeer / int_cf511248	comment	All Part of the Show: Said word for word when the Rocketeer first appears, and saves bumbling pilot Malcolm from fiery death. However, the airfield owner saying that has a hard time keeping up that line as the crashing plane destroys another of his fuel trucks.
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The Rocketeer / int_d09eafbc	type	Floating Head Syndrome
The Rocketeer / int_d09eafbc	comment	Floating Head Syndrome: The cover used for home video releases after executives theorized that the art deco marquee poster (pictured above) looked ''too'' old-fashioned, and would turn off most moviegoers.
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The Rocketeer / int_d139ffaf	type	Genre Throwback
The Rocketeer / int_d139ffaf	comment	Genre Throwback: To the adventure serials of the 1930s.
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The Rocketeer / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Rocketeer / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Neville Sinclair is killed when the jetpack he's been trying to get the whole movie malfunctions and explodes. Literally in Lothar's case—he dies when the same harness he'd strapped himself in to avoid falling off the zeppelin prevents him from escaping when said zeppelin finally blows up.
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The Rocketeer / int_d5c9bce7	comment	Combat Stiletto: While Cliff is surrendering the jetpack to Sinclair, Jenny stomps on the zeppelin captain's foot with her heel, then as he doubles over, she kicks him in the crotch, causing him to fall to his death.
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The Rocketeer / int_dbc2a0cd	type	Hand Wave
The Rocketeer / int_dbc2a0cd	comment	Handwave: The reason the jetpack's operator's legs don't get fried to a crisp by the exhaust is that it's a "cool" propulsion powered by alcohol.
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The Rocketeer / int_de02afbc	type	No MacGuffin, No Winner
The Rocketeer / int_de02afbc	comment	No MacGuffin, No Winner: The rocket pack gets destroyed when Neville Sinclair crashes and burns into the Hollywoodland sign, although Peevy took very good notes when they dismantled the rocket pack earlier in the movie, and got his notes back from Jenny after she swiped them back from Sinclair...
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The Rocketeer / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
The Rocketeer / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: When Jenny is introduced to famed comedian W.C. Fields, the camera drops to her cleavage to show exactly why he is "Charmed. Doubly charmed" to meet her.
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The Rocketeer / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
The Rocketeer / int_dfe57573	comment	Historical In-Joke: Cliff escapes from Howard Hughes by grabbing a (large) model plane and jumping off a balcony, gliding to safety. The plane is a model of the "Spruce Goose", and Hughes comments, "The son-of-a-bitch will fly." Los Angeles' famous "Hollywood" sign used to read "Hollywoodland". Neville Sinclair makes a dramatic exit from the burning airship, right after he smirks "I'll miss Hollywood..." He then crashes into the last four letters of the sign, obliterating them — but he did MISS the Hollywood part of the sign. (In reality, the "-land" was removed in 1949 to reduce maintenance costs and to better reflect the district, rather than the initial housing development) The newsreel shows that the first place to be visited by the German zeppelin is Lakehurst, New Jersey—though that could also be showing their work, since Lakehurst was one of a handful of places in the country with airship landing facilities. Errol Flynn was suspected of being a Nazi spy. Unlike his Expy, he wasn't.note Flynn was actually a Tasmanian-born actor, whose only real claim to being a spy likely lied in his name, which, even then, was of Scottish origin.
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The Rocketeer / int_e0b2e1d4	type	Marquee Alter Ego
The Rocketeer / int_e0b2e1d4	comment	Marquee Alter Ego: Defied - Cliff in costume looks exactly like the original comics, right down to the Cool Helmet. Disney CEO and infamous jackass Michael Eisner wanted it to be changed to an astronaut-style bubble helmet that could show off the actor's face better, but director Joe Johnston stood his ground and won.
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The Rocketeer / int_e29df5b3	type	Hindenburg Incendiary Principle
The Rocketeer / int_e29df5b3	comment	Hindenburg Incendiary Principle: At the end, Jenny fires off a flare gun in the cockpit as she tries to shoot Sinclair, and the zeppelin the Nazis intend to escape in goes up in flames.
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The Rocketeer / int_e36de06c	comment	Jenny stomps on the zeppelin pilot's foot with her heel before kicking him in the groin, though her white dress obscures the kick itself. Also causing him to fall out of the zeppelin.
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The Rocketeer / int_e5421161	type	Expy
The Rocketeer / int_e5421161	comment	Cliff's love interest is made into less of a transparent expy of Bettie Page (though she's still made up to resemble her), so she becomes an aspiring actress instead of a model.
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The Rocketeer / int_e699f77e	type	Borrowed Without Permission
The Rocketeer / int_e699f77e	comment	Borrowed Without Permission: After Cliff and Peevey test the rocketpack, Cliff says "I don't want to keep it, I just want to borrow it for a while.", but Peevey retorts "Cliff, when you borrow something and you don't tell nobody, they call that stealing, you know.".
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The Rocketeer / int_e824190a	type	Grand Theft Prototype
The Rocketeer / int_e824190a	comment	Grand Theft Prototype: Eddie Valentine's gang stealing the rocket-pack kickstarts the film.
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The Rocketeer / int_e9d6eff8	type	Cool Airship
The Rocketeer / int_e9d6eff8	comment	Cool Airship: The Luxembourg, a giant, hydrogen-filled dirigible, like the Hindenburg, ostensibly touring the U.S. for peaceful purposes.
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The Rocketeer / int_ea0d06f0	type	Bookcase Passage
The Rocketeer / int_ea0d06f0	comment	Bookcase Passage: When Jenny wakes up in Neville Sinclair's mansion, she spots him through a window emerging from a hidden passage behind a rotating bookcase. This pays off when she flees from Lothar and can quickly locate the book that operates the door. It leads to his secret radio room for contacting the Nazis, since he's a spy.
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The Rocketeer / int_eadeb4d6	type	Climbing Climax
The Rocketeer / int_eadeb4d6	comment	Climbing Climax: The climax takes place on Cliff having to mount a zeppelin.
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The Rocketeer / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
The Rocketeer / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Cliff tries this against Lothar aboard the zeppelin, though it only annoys Lothar, and worse, Cliff gets hurt trying it. Jenny stomps on the zeppelin pilot's foot with her heel before kicking him in the groin, though her white dress obscures the kick itself. Also causing him to fall out of the zeppelin.
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The Rocketeer / int_eb0d7317	type	Men of Sherwood
The Rocketeer / int_eb0d7317	comment	Men of Sherwood: The FBI agents aren't the best investigators, but the climax shows that they're worth a lot in a Tommy gun fight, especially when they bring more men for backup.
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The Rocketeer / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
The Rocketeer / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Cliff and the gangsters are all held at gunpoint by Nazi paratroopers, about to be mowed down at Sinclair's orders, as he leaves with Jenny as his hostage. Suddenly, headlights light up and FBI Agents and the LAPD appear with machine guns while their leader roars, "This is the FBI! Throw down your guns!" Then, later on, Howard Hughes and Peevy show up in an autogyro and rescue Cliff and Jenny from the exploding zeppelin.
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The Rocketeer / int_eb9eaecd	type	Jet Pack
The Rocketeer / int_eb9eaecd	comment	Jet Pack: The rocket everyone is after. Plus the plot consists of thwarting Stupid Jetpack Hitler.
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The Rocketeer / int_ebcbf841	type	Offing the Annoyance
The Rocketeer / int_ebcbf841	comment	Offing the Annoyance: The Gestapo officer who spends all of his screen time screaming furiously at Sinclair is just begging for Sinclair to get fed up and shoot him out of a Zeppelin.
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The Rocketeer / int_ed503b22	type	Match Cut
The Rocketeer / int_ed503b22	comment	Match Cut: Hills to a close-up of bedsheets; a flaming airship to a bunch of oranges.
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The Rocketeer / int_eed678bf	type	Deep Cover Agent
The Rocketeer / int_eed678bf	comment	Deep Cover Agent: Neville Sinclair, who is secretly working for the Nazis.
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The Rocketeer / int_f165cf2c	comment	Last-Second Word Swap: When Patsy surprises Cliff, he says, "You scared the livin'... heck out of me."
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The Rocketeer / int_f19e8a55	type	Bad "Bad Acting"
The Rocketeer / int_f19e8a55	comment	Bad "Bad Acting": The scene on the set of Jenny's acting job reveals that the small speaking part she was hoping to land, with the line, "O my sweet prince, that I may drink of your lips as deeply!", instead went to the producer's niece. The first take drives home that it was not due to the niece's acting skills. (The second take was better...)
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The Rocketeer / int_f2d29e14	type	Evil Brit
The Rocketeer / int_f2d29e14	comment	Evil Brit: Suave leading man Neville Sinclair is the one after the jetpack. However, it turns out he's actually German—a Nazi spy.
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The Rocketeer / int_f2d8e3c2	type	Evil Plan
The Rocketeer / int_f2d8e3c2	comment	Evil Plan: Neville Sinclair seeks to acquire the title character's Jet Pack for the Nazis to mass-produce for their armies.
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The Rocketeer / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: Neville, especially when he's no longer hiding the fact he's a Nazi.
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The Rocketeer / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
The Rocketeer / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: The Spruce Goose, weirdly enough. At the time of shooting, Disney had purchased it from the Hughes Estate, and tried to turn it into a tourist attraction. Proving itself to be a flop, rumor-weeds stating that the entire Howard Hughes plotline in this movie was an excuse to promote the plane slowly began to crop up.
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The Rocketeer / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: "Where's your stuntman now, Sinclair?" PUNCH!* "I do my own stunts."*
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The Rocketeer / int_f86eb054	comment	Call of the Wild Blue Yonder: Test pilot Cliff Secord has flown some developmental aircraft. When Fate delivers a prototype rocket pack unto him, Cliff becomes a literal flying man. The learning curve is much steeper than with fixed-wing aircraft, but Cliff's enthusiasm steadily raises his airworthiness.
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The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Nepotism / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Newsreel / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Nice Character, Mean Actor / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	No MacGuffin, No Winner / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	No Stunt Double / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Not Wearing Tights / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Offing the Annoyance / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	One True Love / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Open-Door Opening / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Outrun the Fireball / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Parrot Expo-WHAT? / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Politically Correct Villain / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Recycled Trailer Music / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Screw the Money, I Have Rules! / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I'm Famous! / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Separated-at-Birth Casting / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Sickbed Slaying / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Signs of Disrepair / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Silent Antagonist / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	So Long, Suckers! / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Spreading Disaster Map Graphic / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Starring a Star as a Star / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Stolen Good, Returned Better / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Stupid Jetpack Hitler / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Tap on the Head / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Technological Pacifist / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	The Brute / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	The Chanteuse / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	The Foreign Subtitle / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	The Great Depression / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	The Joy of First Flight / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	The Problem with Licensed Games / int_8bbda387
TheRocketeer	seeAlso	The Rocketeer
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Thermal Dissonance / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Think Nothing of It / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Those Two Guys / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Threat Backfire / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Thrown from the Zeppelin / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Toasted Buns / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Today, X. Tomorrow, the World! / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	TouchÃ© / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Unconventional Food Usage / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Up, Up and Away! / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Victoria's Secret Compartment / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Villains Learn Faster / int_8bbda387
Viper	seeAlso	The Rocketeer
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Wartime Cartoon / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Wasn't That Fun? / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Weaponized Exhaust / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Weird Historical War / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	What a Senseless Waste of Human Life / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	What Are Records? / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Wicked Cultured / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	You Must Be Cold / int_8bbda387
The Rocketeer (Video Game)	seeAlso	The Rocketeer

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