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* PunBasedTitle: An obvious play on "the long arm of the law".
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-->'''Nosy Parker''': A quite bit of breaking and entering is one thing, but sloshing a bogey in the execution of his duty–oh, dear, dear, dear!–they'll really lay on for that!
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'''''The Wrong Arm of the Law''''' is a British caper comedy starring Creator/PeterSellers.
Something is up in the criminal underworld. A new gang of crooks from Australia is going around dressed as police officers and lifting the ill-gotten gains of the local crooks. Things soon escalate, and it gets to the point where the robbers start ambushing the actual cops, assuming they're beating up the Aussies. Soon, the local rival gangs, including those led by Pearly Gates (who daylights as a legitimate fashion designer) and Nervous O'Toole, gather for an emergency meeting and vote to propose an alliance with the police to get the IPO gang out of the way, with Pearly as their representative. HilarityEnsues as the two parties of strange bedfellows prepare for war on the IPO gang.
'''''The Wrong Arm of the Law''''' is a British caper comedy starring Creator/PeterSellers.
Something is up in the criminal underworld. A new gang of crooks from Australia is going around dressed as police officers and lifting the ill-gotten gains of the local crooks. Things soon escalate, and it gets to the point where the robbers start ambushing the actual cops, assuming they're beating up the Aussies. Soon, the local rival gangs, including those led by Pearly Gates (who daylights as a legitimate fashion designer) and Nervous O'Toole, gather for an emergency meeting and vote to propose an alliance with the police to get the IPO gang out of the way, with Pearly as their representative. HilarityEnsues as the two parties of strange bedfellows prepare for war on the IPO gang.
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''The Wrong Arm of theLaw''''' Law'' is a 1963 British caper comedy film directed by Cliff Owen and starring Creator/PeterSellers.
Creator/PeterSellers, Lionel Jeffries, and Creator/BernardCribbins.
Something unusual isup happening in the London's criminal underworld. A new gang of crooks from Australia is going around dressed as police officers and lifting the ill-gotten gains of the local crooks. Things soon escalate, and it gets to the point where the robbers start ambushing the actual cops, assuming they're beating up the Aussies.
Soon, the local rivalgangs, gangs -- including those led by Pearly "Pearly" Gates (who (Sellers), who daylights as a legitimate fashion designer) designer, and Nervous O'Toole, "Nervous" O'Toole (Cribbins) -- gather for an emergency meeting and vote to propose an alliance with the police to get the IPO gang out of the way, with Pearly as their representative. HilarityEnsues as the two parties of strange bedfellows prepare for war on the IPO gang.
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A young, uncredited Creator/MichaelCaine appears briefly as a constable.
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* TheCameo: Michael Caine as a constable.
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* CrimeConcealingHobby: Played with. While Nosy Parker immediately suspects that Pearly Gates is still using his fashion boutique as a front for his gang's activities, Pearly insists that the fashion boutique is now a legitimate business which he runs on the side.
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* VitriolicBestBuds: Pearly and Parker develop into this by the end.
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* VitriolicBestBuds: Pearly and Parker develop into this by the end.end.
* WhatTheHellHero: Parker chews out the paranoid crooks that assaulted him.
-->'''Nosy Parker''': A quite bit of breaking and entering is one thing, but sloshing a bogey in the execution of his duty–oh, dear, dear, dear!–they'll really lay on for that!
* WhatTheHellHero: Parker chews out the paranoid crooks that assaulted him.
-->'''Nosy Parker''': A quite bit of breaking and entering is one thing, but sloshing a bogey in the execution of his duty–oh, dear, dear, dear!–they'll really lay on for that!
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* AntiHero: Pearly is a [[VillainWithGoodPublicity rather charismatic crook]] who runs a legitimate fashion shop and is the main protagonist and a driving force in the war against the IPO mob.
* BatmanGambit: Planned by heroes, anti-heroes, and villains alike.
* TheCameo: Michael Caine as a constable.
* TheChessmaster: Pearly Gates develops into this over the course of the war against the IPO mob. This was played up in advertising.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Nosy Parker.
* EnemyMine: The local crooks and the police join forces against the IPO mob. The IPO mob also makes strange bedfellows of Pearly and Nervous.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The local crooks note that they wouldn't assault a police officer and apologise to Nosy Parker when they end up sloshing him instead of the IPO gang they'd been pursuing. Parker even makes note of how out of character that was of the two that hit him.
* FemmeFatale: Valerie.
* FunnyForeigner: German crook Siggy Schmoltz.
* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: The Australian gang uses this as their tactic.
* KarmaHoudini: Pearly escapes with the decoy money, Nosy Parker, and his two-timing girlfriend Valerie in tow and starts up a Hawaiian fashion shop, with Parker and Valerie (the latter as a model) in his employ. Also Valerie herself, who despite grassing on her boyfriend's gang's jobs to the IPO mob ends up escaping with him and being employed as a model for his Hawaiian fashion shop.
* LovableRogue: Pearly Gates.
* OutOfCharacterMoment: Lampshaded by Nosy Parker when a couple of local crooks jump him.
* RunningGag: Parker accusing Pearly of trying to bribe him.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: An anti-heroic example in Pearly Gates.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Pearly and Parker develop into this by the end.
* BatmanGambit: Planned by heroes, anti-heroes, and villains alike.
* TheCameo: Michael Caine as a constable.
* TheChessmaster: Pearly Gates develops into this over the course of the war against the IPO mob. This was played up in advertising.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Nosy Parker.
* EnemyMine: The local crooks and the police join forces against the IPO mob. The IPO mob also makes strange bedfellows of Pearly and Nervous.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The local crooks note that they wouldn't assault a police officer and apologise to Nosy Parker when they end up sloshing him instead of the IPO gang they'd been pursuing. Parker even makes note of how out of character that was of the two that hit him.
* FemmeFatale: Valerie.
* FunnyForeigner: German crook Siggy Schmoltz.
* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: The Australian gang uses this as their tactic.
* KarmaHoudini: Pearly escapes with the decoy money, Nosy Parker, and his two-timing girlfriend Valerie in tow and starts up a Hawaiian fashion shop, with Parker and Valerie (the latter as a model) in his employ. Also Valerie herself, who despite grassing on her boyfriend's gang's jobs to the IPO mob ends up escaping with him and being employed as a model for his Hawaiian fashion shop.
* LovableRogue: Pearly Gates.
* OutOfCharacterMoment: Lampshaded by Nosy Parker when a couple of local crooks jump him.
* RunningGag: Parker accusing Pearly of trying to bribe him.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: An anti-heroic example in Pearly Gates.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Pearly and Parker develop into this by the end.
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*KarmaHoudini:
**Pearly escapes with the
**Also Valerie herself, who despite grassing on her boyfriend's gang's jobs to the IPO mob ends up escaping with him and being employed as a model for his Hawaiian fashion shop.
*NoodleIncident: That one time years before when Parker brought Pearly in. They were Nosy Parker and Pearly Gates then, and Nosy Parker and Pearly Gates they'll always be!
*OutOfCharacterMoment: Lampshaded by Nosy Parker when a couple of local crooks jump him.
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'''''The Wrong Arm of the Law''''' is a British caper comedy starring Creator/PeterSellers.
Something is up in the criminal underworld. A new gang of crooks from Australia is going around dressed as police officers and lifting the ill-gotten gains of the local crooks. Things soon escalate, and it gets to the point where the robbers start ambushing the actual cops, assuming they're beating up the Aussies. Soon, the local rival gangs, including those led by Pearly Gates (who daylights as a legitimate fashion designer) and Nervous O'Toole, gather for an emergency meeting and vote to propose an alliance with the police to get the IPO gang out of the way, with Pearly as their representative. HilarityEnsues as the two parties of strange bedfellows prepare for war on the IPO gang.
!!This film contains examples of:
*AntiHero: Pearly is a [[VillainWithGoodPublicity rather charismatic crook]] who runs a legitimate fashion shop and is the main protagonist and a driving force in the war against the IPO mob.
*BatmanGambit: Planned by heroes, anti-heroes, and villains alike.
*TheCameo: Michael Caine as a constable.
*TheChessmaster: Pearly Gates develops into this over the course of the war against the IPO mob. This was played up in advertising.
*{{Deuteragonist}}: Nosy Parker.
*EnemyMine: The local crooks and the police join forces against the IPO mob. The IPO mob also makes strange bedfellows of Pearly and Nervous.
*EvenEvilHasStandards: The local crooks note that they wouldn't assault a police officer and apologise to Nosy Parker when they end up sloshing him instead of the IPO gang they'd been pursuing. Parker even makes note of how out of character that was of the two that hit him.
*FemmeFatale: Valerie.
*FunnyForeigner: German crook Siggy Schmoltz.
*ImpersonatingAnOfficer: The Australian gang uses this as their tactic.
*KarmaHoudini: Pearly escapes with the decoy money, Nosy Parker, and his two-timing girlfriend Valerie in tow and starts up a Hawaiian fashion shop, with Parker and Valerie (the latter as a model) in his employ. Also Valerie herself, who despite grassing on her boyfriend's gang's jobs to the IPO mob ends up escaping with him and being employed as a model for his Hawaiian fashion shop.
*LovableRogue: Pearly Gates.
*OutOfCharacterMoment: Lampshaded by Nosy Parker when a couple of local crooks jump him.
*RunningGag: Parker accusing Pearly of trying to bribe him.
*VillainWithGoodPublicity: An anti-heroic example in Pearly Gates.
*VitriolicBestBuds: Pearly and Parker develop into this by the end.
Something is up in the criminal underworld. A new gang of crooks from Australia is going around dressed as police officers and lifting the ill-gotten gains of the local crooks. Things soon escalate, and it gets to the point where the robbers start ambushing the actual cops, assuming they're beating up the Aussies. Soon, the local rival gangs, including those led by Pearly Gates (who daylights as a legitimate fashion designer) and Nervous O'Toole, gather for an emergency meeting and vote to propose an alliance with the police to get the IPO gang out of the way, with Pearly as their representative. HilarityEnsues as the two parties of strange bedfellows prepare for war on the IPO gang.
!!This film contains examples of:
*AntiHero: Pearly is a [[VillainWithGoodPublicity rather charismatic crook]] who runs a legitimate fashion shop and is the main protagonist and a driving force in the war against the IPO mob.
*BatmanGambit: Planned by heroes, anti-heroes, and villains alike.
*TheCameo: Michael Caine as a constable.
*TheChessmaster: Pearly Gates develops into this over the course of the war against the IPO mob. This was played up in advertising.
*{{Deuteragonist}}: Nosy Parker.
*EnemyMine: The local crooks and the police join forces against the IPO mob. The IPO mob also makes strange bedfellows of Pearly and Nervous.
*EvenEvilHasStandards: The local crooks note that they wouldn't assault a police officer and apologise to Nosy Parker when they end up sloshing him instead of the IPO gang they'd been pursuing. Parker even makes note of how out of character that was of the two that hit him.
*FemmeFatale: Valerie.
*FunnyForeigner: German crook Siggy Schmoltz.
*ImpersonatingAnOfficer: The Australian gang uses this as their tactic.
*KarmaHoudini: Pearly escapes with the decoy money, Nosy Parker, and his two-timing girlfriend Valerie in tow and starts up a Hawaiian fashion shop, with Parker and Valerie (the latter as a model) in his employ. Also Valerie herself, who despite grassing on her boyfriend's gang's jobs to the IPO mob ends up escaping with him and being employed as a model for his Hawaiian fashion shop.
*LovableRogue: Pearly Gates.
*OutOfCharacterMoment: Lampshaded by Nosy Parker when a couple of local crooks jump him.
*RunningGag: Parker accusing Pearly of trying to bribe him.
*VillainWithGoodPublicity: An anti-heroic example in Pearly Gates.
*VitriolicBestBuds: Pearly and Parker develop into this by the end.
