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When Eight Bells Toll

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When Eight Bells Toll	comment	When Eight Bells Toll is 1966 a spy/detective thriller by Alistair Maclean, which was adapted into a 1971 film directed by Étienne Périer and starring Anthony Hopkins with Robert Morley, Nathalie Delon and Jack Hawkins.In the Irish Sea, cargo ships are being hijacked and robbed of their cargos of gold bullion. Phillip Calvert (Hopkins) is a British secret agent who's sent to the Scottish island of Torbay to hunt down the culprits.
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_151bc113	type	Cover Identity Anomaly
When Eight Bells Toll / int_151bc113	comment	Cover Identity Anomaly: The customs officers claim to have spent all day searching ships for stolen goods, yet Calvert notes that their clothes are clean. Neither are any of them carrying a portable photocopier, despite ostensibly taking the ship's papers to be copied.
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
When Eight Bells Toll / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: While there's plenty of action in the movie the poster exaggerates it somewhat—the castle doesn't explode, there are no gunfights involving a pretty Action Girl and the hero hanging from a helicopter rope ladder, and it's more espionage thriller than Navarone-type war movie.
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
When Eight Bells Toll / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good is Not Nice: In revenge for Hunslett's death, Calvert rams a pirate boat and shoots the crew while they're helpless in the water.
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_255913ca	type	Make It Look Like a Struggle
When Eight Bells Toll / int_255913ca	comment	Make It Look Like a Struggle: Charlotte has fresh scars on her back when she swims out to Calvert's boat, claiming that she's escaping from an abusive husband. Her husband is actually the leader of the pirate gang, and sent her to tip them off using a radio hidden in her perfume bottle.
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_2916334d	type	It's What I Do
When Eight Bells Toll / int_2916334d	comment	It's What I Do
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_2bfabe7	type	Trespassing to Talk
When Eight Bells Toll / int_2bfabe7	comment	Trespassing to Talk: Calvert returns to his boat and finds himself tussling with someone in the dark. On turning on the light switch, he finds he's holding a gun to the head of his own boss.
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_3079b2e	type	Harpoon Gun
When Eight Bells Toll / int_3079b2e	comment	Harpoon Gun: The Big Bad gets shot in the back with one as he's fleeing in a motorboat (which then explodes).
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_3429147e	type	When the Clock Strikes Twelve
When Eight Bells Toll / int_3429147e	comment	When the Clock Strikes Twelve: The title refers to midnight (eight bells, according to the nautical method of keeping time) when Calvert has arranged for the local shark hunters he's recruited to ram the dock gates with their boat.
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_3ec7c277	type	Every Car Is a Pinto
When Eight Bells Toll / int_3ec7c277	comment	Every Car Is a Pinto: In this movie, every motorboat is. One explodes with a shot from Calvert's revolver, another after striking a glancing blow on a tunnel.
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_49d5f48f	type	Of Corpse He's Alive
When Eight Bells Toll / int_49d5f48f	comment	Of Corpse He's Alive: At the start of the movie and novel, Calvert sneaks onto a ship and breaks into the radio room, only to be caught red-handed by a sailor pointing a revolver at him. He then notices the revolver is propped on the desk and the man's eyes aren't moving to follow him. On further examination the sailor has been stabbed in the back with a knife that's holding him in position.
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_59657f84	comment	Trapped in a Sinking Car: After being shot up by pirates, the helicopter crashes at the base of a sea cliff, Teetering on the Edge as Calvert struggles to escape from the burning cabin. Then it topples into the sea which extinguishes the fire but traps Calvert underwater, with the pirates waiting above in a motorboat to see if anyone surfaces. He uses the pilot's oxygen bottle and mask to keep breathing until they leave.
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
When Eight Bells Toll / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: The pirates are forcing others to assist in their crimes by holding their relatives in the castle dungeon.
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_74cf734c	type	Tae Kwon Door
When Eight Bells Toll / int_74cf734c	comment	Tae Kwon Door: A mook peeks through a deck hatch only to have Uncle Arthur slide it shut on his head, knocking him unconscious.
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_7d163c9c	type	Dating Catwoman
When Eight Bells Toll / int_7d163c9c	comment	Dating Catwoman: Even though Charlotte is revealed to be The Mole, Calvert lets her escape with a bar of gold. Though Charlotte doesn't think much of her chances without Calvert, he says that it's at least a chance.
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_7ea8f5ce	type	Knight in Shining Armor
When Eight Bells Toll / int_7ea8f5ce	comment	Knight in Shining Armor: Lampshaded when Calvert climbs a cliff to a castle to rescue the Damsel in Distress within. He's more like a Knight in Sour Armor.
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_7f413791	type	Wall of Weapons
When Eight Bells Toll / int_7f413791	comment	Wall of Weapons: Calvert takes a crossbow off a wall of medieval weapons and uses it to shoot a guard and take his rifle. Given that the pirates are holding several people hostage in the castle, including the owner, one wonders why the pirates didn't secure these weapons in case their captives tried to use them. Or why Calvert didn't just bring a silenced firearm with him.
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
When Eight Bells Toll / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The movie starts with Calvert boarding a ship and finding two dead men. We then flashback to Calvert and Hunslett briefing Sir Arthur on the idea of planting a couple of intelligence agents on the next bullion shipment. Sir Arthur insists he has two operatives who can take care of themselves. In walk the two men that Calvert later finds dead.
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_85ac41e1	type	Grappling-Hook Pistol
When Eight Bells Toll / int_85ac41e1	comment	Grappling-Hook Pistol: A realistic version when Calvert uses a line thrower to climb the cliff to the castle, with the line playing out from a large container at his feet rather than being attached to the launcher.
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_8a7e27b5	type	Stab the Scorpion
When Eight Bells Toll / int_8a7e27b5	comment	Stab the Scorpion: After her treachery is revealed, Charlotte cringes as Calvert grabs a deer's head mounted on the wall and rushes her, but the antlers just harmlessly impact the wall on either side of her.
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_8ccfcf8e	type	Horny Sailors
When Eight Bells Toll / int_8ccfcf8e	comment	Horny Sailors: Noting the eagerness with which Calvert is snogging her, Charlotte quips that he's clearly been a long time at sea.
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_985e118a	type	Odd Couple
When Eight Bells Toll / int_985e118a	comment	Odd Couple: Much humor is derived from the Snark-to-Snark Combat between the impertinent Calvert and the pompous head of British Intelligence, Sir Arthur Arnford-Jones ("Uncle Arthur").
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_ab173426	type	Ruthless Modern Pirates
When Eight Bells Toll / int_ab173426	comment	Ruthless Modern Pirates: The pirates hijack ships, dump the crews on a lonely part of the Irish coast, then sink them near their base of operations to Hide the Evidence so they can retrieve the gold with divers at their leisure. They also kidnap the relatives and loved ones of local people they want to coerce into aiding them.
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_accd97de	type	Actionized Adaptation
When Eight Bells Toll / int_accd97de	comment	Actionized Adaptation: The novel has a Mexican Standoff and Just Between You and Me, with the pirates surrendering once the Royal Marine Commandos arrive to back up the heroes. The movie however has a momentary standoff followed by a shootout when Calvert provides a distraction.
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_b2cb7993	type	Brains and Brawn
When Eight Bells Toll / int_b2cb7993	comment	Brains and Brawn: Hunslett (British Intelligence) regards his pairing with Calvert (Royal Navy) as this. The weakness of this trope is shown when Hunslett is murdered while Calvert is away.
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_b9f472b	type	Storming the Castle
When Eight Bells Toll / int_b9f472b	comment	Storming the Castle: Or in this case, storming the tunnel dock beneath the castle.
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_bccb6703	type	Cement Shoes
When Eight Bells Toll / int_bccb6703	comment	Cement Shoes: Calvert shocks Uncle Arthur by necksnapping a mook, wrapping his legs in chain and throwing the corpse overboard. Later they're pulling up the anchor and find Hunslett has been tied to it.
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_c2ecf3b8	type	Show Some Leg
When Eight Bells Toll / int_c2ecf3b8	comment	Show Some Leg: When Calvert tells Lord Kirkside's daughter to distract the guard, she points out a problem with this trope. This was not an issue in the novel, because that particular guard fancied himself a ladies' man and had already tried to seduce the woman concerned.
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
When Eight Bells Toll / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: Just listen to the Bond-type music as our hero climbs an anchor chain.
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_d2437b08	type	Short-Lived Aerial Escape
When Eight Bells Toll / int_d2437b08	comment	Short-Lived Aerial Escape: A helicopter drops Calvert off on the island, but the pirates are waiting in ambush with assault rifles. As the helicopter flies off Calvert leaps onto it and is able to clamber inside, but another burst of fire kills the pilot and causes it to crash.
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_d2796e58	type	Clothing-Concealed Injury
When Eight Bells Toll / int_d2796e58	comment	Clothing-Concealed Injury: Calvert and Hunslett find their radio sabotaged, but there's blood on it. Calvert suspects one of the fake customs officers was the same man whose hand he sliced open the previous night, and was wearing gloves to hide it (which he had to take off to fiddle with the radio). He also had a hat to cover his Bald of Evil.
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_e460b44e	type	The Radio Dies First
When Eight Bells Toll / int_e460b44e	comment	The Radio Dies First: Fake custom officers board the boat for an inspection and sabotage the radio. Fortunately there's a second hidden radio with scrambler. In the novel the villains find where this radio is hidden, steal it and leave Hunslett's body there.
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_ea8de006	type	Traitor Shot
When Eight Bells Toll / int_ea8de006	comment	Traitor Shot: The way Charlotte is listening in on Calvert and Uncle Arthur clues in the audience early that she's a Fake Defector.
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_ea92aeb0	type	Concealment Equals Cover
When Eight Bells Toll / int_ea92aeb0	comment	Concealment Equals Cover: Captain Irvine, standing behind a wooden balcony, is riddled with bullets fired by Calvert's Sterling, while Calvert is crouched behind an upturned wooden boat yet is completely unharmed by bullets from assault rifles and submachine guns.
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When Eight Bells Toll / int_eb0d7317	type	Men of Sherwood
When Eight Bells Toll / int_eb0d7317	comment	Men of Sherwood: Calvert recruits local shark fishermen to help him in Storming the Castle. When Uncle Arthur congratulates them on their public spiritedness, they explain that Calvert has promised them a cut of the insurance reward.
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