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* KillEmAll: TheHeroDies when Joe is killed in a drive-by shooting in Italy. Tony is shot in the back on the Mafia boss's orders.
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* CorruptTheCutie: Tony's PoisonousFriend The Professor turns him into a killer.
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* CorruptTheCutie: Tony's PoisonousFriend ToxicFriendInfluence The Professor turns him into a killer.
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* BaldOfAwesome: A comb-over in Joe's case.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: The BigBad Don Gaetano.
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* HeroAntagonist: Joe, to the VillainProtagonist Tony.
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''The Black Hand'' is a 1973 Mafia film set in New York during TheGayNineties. Mike Placido plays a young Sicilian immigrant called Tony, and Creator/LionelStander plays Joe Petrosino, a tough KnightTemplar cop trying to bust the early Mafia protection rackets. A remake has been announced for 2018, with Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio playing Joe.
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''The Black Hand'' is a 1973 Mafia film set in New York during TheGayNineties. Mike Placido plays a young Sicilian immigrant called Tony, and Creator/LionelStander plays Joe Petrosino, a tough KnightTemplar cop trying to bust the early Mafia protection rackets.
A remakehas been announced for 2018, is in the works, with Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio playing Joe.
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* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: For Tony ItsPersonal when Joe slaps him in the face.
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* BeingGoodSucks: SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Joe's attempts to help his fellow Italians is met with a wall of silence and suspicion, while the gangsters get money and respect.
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* EnemyMine: Between Joe and the Professor when the Mafia fail to help the latter avoid the death sentence.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Tony refuses to let the Mafia sell the girl into prostitution because he believes RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil and SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil.
* FauxAffablyEvil: The BigBad Don Gaetano.
* FauxAffablyEvil: The BigBad Don Gaetano.
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* HumanTraffickers: The gangsters bring over young girls from Italy and sell them into prostitution
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* KickTheDog: Joe strikes Tony when the latter is too afraid to identify the murderer who killed the pizza chef.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Joe's methods alienate many immigrants like Tony and result in them looking to the gangs for protection and respect.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Joe's methods alienate many immigrants like Tony and result in them looking to the gangs for protection and respect.
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* StartOfDarkness: Tony sells insurance for the Mafia, then moves on to pimping, and finally becomes a killer.
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* WretchedHive: The city is a dirty, violent place as in GangsOfNewYork.
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* BlackAndGreyMorality: CowboyCop Joe uses some very underhand methods against the gangsters he pursues.
* BaldOfAwesome: A comb-over in Joe's case.
* BaldOfAwesome: A comb-over in Joe's case.
* CruelMercy: Joe prefers to put criminals in jail rather than kill them, so they have time to reflect upon their crimes.
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* GoodIsNotNice: Joe is willing to beat confessions out of gang members, if it means sending a murderer to prison to protect the Italian community.
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* EthnicMenialLabor: Tony works at a cement plant, alongside Irish and Italian immigrants.
* GoodIsNotNice: HardboiledDetective Joe is willing to beat confessions out of gang members, if it means sending a murderer to prison to protect the Italiancommunity.community.
* GoodHairEvilHair: The gangsters are recognisable by their moustaches.
* GoodIsNotNice: HardboiledDetective Joe is willing to beat confessions out of gang members, if it means sending a murderer to prison to protect the Italian
* GoodHairEvilHair: The gangsters are recognisable by their moustaches.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: KnightInSourArmor Joe is rude and abrasive, but also motivated by desire to protect law abiding Italian-Americans from the criminal gangs.
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* RabidCop: Joe starts to show signs of this out of frustration at the Italian witnesses' reluctance to denounce the gangsters.
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* OlderHeroVersusYoungerVillain: As in real life, LeadDetective Joe is approaching retirement age. Tony is a young immigrant in his 20s.
* OldFashionedCopper: Joe is uncorruptable, but will resort to PoliceBrutality against any AssholeVictim that protects murderers.
* PoliteVillainsRudeHeroes: The AffablyEvil, well dressed Professor and the low-born, violent SmithOfTheYard Joe.
* RabidCop: PragmaticHero Joe starts to show signs of this out of frustration at the Italian witnesses' reluctance to denounce thegangsters.gangsters.
* ThanatosGambit: With help from DaChief and his Republican allies, Joe pretends to resign from the force and travels to Italy to bring down the Mafia bosses. If he puts them in jail they will testify against their friends, if he kills them they will no longer terrorise ordinary Italians, and if they kill him the people will lose confidence in the Tammany Hall Democrats.
* TheIrishMob: Tony gets into a fight with a gang of Irish laborers at the brothel.
* OldFashionedCopper: Joe is uncorruptable, but will resort to PoliceBrutality against any AssholeVictim that protects murderers.
* PoliteVillainsRudeHeroes: The AffablyEvil, well dressed Professor and the low-born, violent SmithOfTheYard Joe.
* RabidCop: PragmaticHero Joe starts to show signs of this out of frustration at the Italian witnesses' reluctance to denounce the
* ThanatosGambit: With help from DaChief and his Republican allies, Joe pretends to resign from the force and travels to Italy to bring down the Mafia bosses. If he puts them in jail they will testify against their friends, if he kills them they will no longer terrorise ordinary Italians, and if they kill him the people will lose confidence in the Tammany Hall Democrats.
* TheIrishMob: Tony gets into a fight with a gang of Irish laborers at the brothel.
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* VillainousRescue: The Mafia save Tony from the Irish thugs.
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* YouHaveFailedMe: When Tony loses his nerve and fails to kill Joe, he is shot by a Mafia hitman.
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* YouHaveFailedMe: When Tony loses his nerve and fails to kill Joe, he is shot by a Mafia hitman.hitman.
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The Black Hand is a 1973 Mafia film set in New York during TheGayNineties. Mike Placido plays a young Sicilian immigrant called Tony, and Creator/LionelStander plays Joe Petrosino, a tough KnightTemplar cop trying to bust the early Mafia protection rackets. A remake has been announced for 2018, with Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio playing Joe. Tropes include:
*BigBad: FatBastard Don Gaetano is an {{Expy}} of Film/TheGodfather, as played by Marlon Brando.
*CorruptTheCutie: Tony's PoisonousFriend The Professor turns him into a killer.
*CoolCar: TheMafia boss travels in a black horse drawn carriage.
*DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: The Professor introduces Tony to tailored suits, cigars, drink, women and billiards.
*TheDragon: The professor (Philip Leroy) is an underboss to the local godfather.
*DirtyCop: One of the prison guards works for the Mafia, and tells TheDon that the Professor will betray him.
*EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Tony tells his wife Angela to get an abortion rather than have their son grow up to be a gangster like him.
*GoodIsNotNice: Joe is willing to beat confessions out of gang members, if it means sending a murderer to prison to protect the Italian community.
*HeroAntagonist: Joe, to the VillainProtagonist Tony.
*HeelFaceTurn: The Professor when he turns informant. Unfortunately for him, RedemptionEqualsDeath.
*KillEmAll: TheHeroDies when Joe is killed in a drive-by shooting in Italy. Tony is shot in the back on the Mafia boss's orders.
*RabidCop: Joe starts to show signs of this out of frustration at the Italian witnesses' reluctance to denounce the gangsters.
*VillainTeamUp: The Democrat senator and the Mafia bosses do each other favors to stay in power.
*YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The Professor is poisoned in jail to prevent him testifying against Gaetano.
*YouHaveFailedMe: When Tony loses his nerve and fails to kill Joe, he is shot by a Mafia hitman.
*BigBad: FatBastard Don Gaetano is an {{Expy}} of Film/TheGodfather, as played by Marlon Brando.
*CorruptTheCutie: Tony's PoisonousFriend The Professor turns him into a killer.
*CoolCar: TheMafia boss travels in a black horse drawn carriage.
*DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: The Professor introduces Tony to tailored suits, cigars, drink, women and billiards.
*TheDragon: The professor (Philip Leroy) is an underboss to the local godfather.
*DirtyCop: One of the prison guards works for the Mafia, and tells TheDon that the Professor will betray him.
*EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Tony tells his wife Angela to get an abortion rather than have their son grow up to be a gangster like him.
*GoodIsNotNice: Joe is willing to beat confessions out of gang members, if it means sending a murderer to prison to protect the Italian community.
*HeroAntagonist: Joe, to the VillainProtagonist Tony.
*HeelFaceTurn: The Professor when he turns informant. Unfortunately for him, RedemptionEqualsDeath.
*KillEmAll: TheHeroDies when Joe is killed in a drive-by shooting in Italy. Tony is shot in the back on the Mafia boss's orders.
*RabidCop: Joe starts to show signs of this out of frustration at the Italian witnesses' reluctance to denounce the gangsters.
*VillainTeamUp: The Democrat senator and the Mafia bosses do each other favors to stay in power.
*YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The Professor is poisoned in jail to prevent him testifying against Gaetano.
*YouHaveFailedMe: When Tony loses his nerve and fails to kill Joe, he is shot by a Mafia hitman.
