History Film / Mitchell

* SomethingElseAlsoRises: As Mitchell watches Greta wipe the spilled beer off her knee, his concealed revolver falls down his pant leg, looking briefly like a massive descending bulge. Crow is horrified.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The censored TV edit cuts out the scene where Deaney and one his goons try to kill Mitchell, but end up dead, themselves. (Mitchell bashes the goon's skull in with a rock, and Deaney dies trying to flee when [[MadeOfExplodium his dune buggy takes a bad bounce and explodes]].) As a result, it seems that Deaney just sort of disappears partway through the movie.

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The censored TV edit cuts out the scene where Mitchell fights Deaney and bashes his head in with a rock. As a result, it seems that Deaney just sort of disappears partway through the movie.

* RecklessGunUsage: Deaney admits he doesn't know which guns in his gun cabinet are loaded as an excuse to why he shot the cat burglar.

** The ending is an {{Homage}} to (or outright ripoff of) ''Film/KeyLargo.''

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The opening credits show a super slo-mo (about 1 frame-per-second) shot of Mitchell heaving a rock at the ground. This is from a scene late in the movie where he bludgeons Deaney to death with said rock. In the TV cut of the film, that whole scene is edited out, but the opening credits are the same. It doesn't make much difference, as it's hard to even tell what he's doing in the slo-mo version, and it doesn't make much more sense to have it in the opening credits to start with.

'''Mitchell:''' Buzz off.\\

'''Boy:''' You said buzz off!\\

'''Mitchell:''' Buzz off, huh?\\
'''Boy:''' Buzz off!\\
'''Mitchell:''' '''''BUZZ OFF, KID!!'''''

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** AnAssKickingChristmas

-->'''Mitchell:''' "She'll lie in ''my'' bed for ''nothin'''."

* StopCopyingMe: Done to the point that it drives the [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]] boys (and Mitchell) insane.

'''Tom Servo:''' Tonight, on ''Crossfire''...\\

''(Joel {{Facepalm}}s)''\\

'''Tom Servo:''' '''''[[SkywardScream AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!]]'''''\\

'''Mitchell:''' '''''BUZZ OFF, KID!!'''''[[note]]'''Servo:''' ''(as Mitchell)'' I'm gonna give him 10 seconds then I'm gonna ''run him over''![[/note]]

** Still, can you blame him for wanting [[DesignatedHero Mitchell]] to be punished?
** After setting up a trap for Mitchell to get caught up in the cocaine trade-off, Cummins contacts Mitchell's police department, probably in an attempt to get Mitchell framed for being involved, and possibly arrested. [[NiceJobFixingItVillain Instead, the cops arrive late in a helicopter, don't see the cocaine trading *at all*, and only see Mitchell getting shot at. They then assist him in escaping, and then tracking Cummins and Benton on their boat.]]

* BattleButler: Benton is presumably one of these to Cummings. While he does fight Mitchell on the boat at the end, he doesn't do a particularly good job of it.

* {{Fingore}}: In the uncut version, Mitchell catches up to the Larry Miller-esque mook who ran him off the road and hangs a beating on him, capping it off by slamming a car door on the mook's fingers.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: See Jerkass below. Originally it was "Bastard", not "Jerk", written on the windshield. Likely a cut intended for TV. In the same scene, during the argument with the kid, "Piss off!" was redubbed as "Buzz off!"

The film opens with the shooting of an unarmed home invader by Walter Deaney (John Saxon). Though Deaney claims self-defense, Mitchell is doubtful but can't properly pursue the charge due to the FBI wanting Deaney for far worse. The police chief tries to keep Mitchell busy by getting him to stake out a man named Cummings (Martin Balsam) who's involved in trafficking stolen merchandise and later drugs. Deaney also sends Mitchell a hooker named Greta (Linda Evans) to try and butter him up. After a disturbing sex scene involving beer and baby oil, he arrests her for having pot. Eventually Deaney tries to kill Mitchell, but dies in the attempt. Cummings is meanwhile trying to stop some Italian mobsters from bringing a shipment of heroin through his port. After a rather long scene of Mitchell yelling at a child, Cummings manipulates Mitchell into believing he'll help him catch the mobsters but in reality Cummings just plans to steal the real heroin and set up Mitchell. Mitchell gets wise and kills the Italian gangsters, then chases Cummings's boat. After a brief fight on the boat, he kills Cummings's "lousy" butler (Merlin Olsen) and finally Cummings himself. He returns home to find Greta waiting for him and he goes ahead and arrests her again for good measure (as she's been revealed to be high on pot, the viewer suddenly understands why she was willing to sleep with Mitchell).

''Mitchell'' is a 1975 action/crime film directed by Andrew V. [=McLaglen=] and starring Joe Don Baker as the [[ProtagonistTitle title character]], an abrasive, unpopular, alcoholic UsefulNotes/LosAngeles police detective.

-->'''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Crow T. Robot]]:''' [[{{Earworm}} My, my, my,]] '''''MY GOD, NOOOOO!!'''''

* ForTheEvulz: Deaney's killing of the Mexican burglar. He claimed it was self-defense, but in reality the burglar was unarmed and trying to run away, Deaney called him back and shot him purely for the malicious pleasure.

-->'''Mitchell:''' "She'll lie in ''my'' bed for ''free''."

** Mitchell's stakeout of Cummings is a joke. He is told to sit in a car parked across the street from Cumming's front door where he looks the most conspicuous for sixteen hours a day. He has no relief, the stakeout just kinda ''pauses'' if Mitchell has to leave to get something to eat or take a leak, and during the eight hours he's allowed to go home and sleep. He doesn't even have a partner. Cummings would have to be blind to not know the surveillance was going on, and he would have to be an idiot to not be able to figure out how to cheat it.