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* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/JamesCagney [[Film/WhiteHeat as a gangster very close to his mother]].
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* MoralEventHorizon: Whatever sympathy you may have had for Powers, no matter what he did, instantly evaporates after needlessly murdering a horse after a friend of his died riding it.
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* SignatureScene: Tom Powers pushing a grapefruit in his girlfriend's face.
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* NightmareFuel: The final scene where Tom's mother is still upstairs preparing a room for her boy while a... package is dropped off on her doorstep. After mostly bloodless cinematic violence, it's quite a shock.
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* NightmareFuel: The final scene scene, where Tom's mother is still upstairs preparing a room for her boy while a... package [[DeadGuyOnDisplay package]] is dropped off on her doorstep. After mostly bloodless cinematic violence, it's quite a shock.
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* NightmareFuel: The final scene where Tom's mother is still upstairs preparing a room for her boy while a...package is dropped off on her doorstep. After mostly bloodless cinematic violence, it's quite a shock.
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* NightmareFuel: The final scene where Tom's mother is still upstairs preparing a room for her boy while a... package is dropped off on her doorstep. After mostly bloodless cinematic violence, it's quite a shock.
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* AwardSnub: It received one Academy Award Nomination for Best Story. Creator/JamesCagney's perfomance wasn't nominated.
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* AwardSnub: It received one Academy Award UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Nomination for Best Story. Creator/JamesCagney's perfomance wasn't nominated.
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* AwardSnub: It received one Academy Award Nomination for Best Story. Creator/JamesCagney's perfomance wasn't nominated.
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Some Anvils Need To Be Dropped got cut.
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The movie really is making the effort to say that a life of crime does not pay.
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* NightmareFuel: The final scene where Tom's mother is still upstairs preparing a room for her boy while a...package is dropped off on her doorstep. After mostly bloodless cinematic violence, it's quite a shock.
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*SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The movie really is making the effort to say that a life of crime does not pay.
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* GeniusBonus: At about half an hour into the film, Powers and Doyle enter the nightclub "Black and Tan." Since the film has much to do with Prohibition, this is a clever pun by the filmmakers, as a black and tan is also a mixture of beers (typically stout and ale, hence its name).
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* OneSceneWonder: If Mae Clarke is remembered today at all, it's for that one scene where Creator/JamesCagney smashes the grapefruit in her face.
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* OneSceneWonder: If Mae Clarke is remembered today at all, it's for that one scene where HilariousInHindsight: Creator/JamesCagney smashes the grapefruit in her face.
[[Film/WhiteHeat as a gangster very close to his mother]].
* SignatureScene: Tom Powers pushing a grapefruit in his girlfriend'sface.face.
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* SignatureScene: Tom Powers pushing a grapefruit in his girlfriend's
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* AdaptationDisplacement: Bet you didn't know it was based on a book called "Beer and Blood"?
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* AdaptationDisplacement: Bet you didn't know it was based on a book called "Beer ''Beer and Blood"?
Blood''?
* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: The film opens with a title card explicitly stating that the studio did not seek to "glorify the hoodlum or criminal". It makes the gangster cooler, more interesting, and more important than his straight-laced brother.
* OneSceneWonder: If Mae Clarke is remembered today at all, it's for that one scene where Creator/JamesCagney smashes the grapefruit in her face.
* SignatureScene:The Tom Powers pushing a grapefruit scene.in his girlfriend's face.
* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: The film opens with a title card explicitly stating that the studio did not seek to "glorify the hoodlum or criminal". It makes the gangster cooler, more interesting, and more important than his straight-laced brother.
* OneSceneWonder: If Mae Clarke is remembered today at all, it's for that one scene where Creator/JamesCagney smashes the grapefruit in her face.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: Bet you didn't know it was based on a book called "Beer and Blood"?
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* SignatureScene: The grapefruit scene.
