History Film / TheEvilThatMenDo

->"Now the hood which serves to [[MalevolentMaskedMen separate the interrogator and subject psychologically]] is not always necessary. There are times when one does without it." ''(removes his hood to show the face of a white-haired, dignified-looking man)''

* ItsPersonal: Holland turns down money for the assignment, seeking only to avenge his friend. However he's reluctant to take his Hidalgo's wife on the assignment for the same reason.

* SpitefulSpit: The doctor calmly wipes it off and says, "Notice, gentlemen, how the subject clings to compensatory morale, and habitual defences." Then he [[ElectricTorture calls for the electrodes]].

* TestedOnHumans

-->"No crutch, and he walks like a champ."
* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: After Claire gets killed, Holland has to use a tape-recording of her voice to fool Molloch.

* TortureTechnician: Dr Clement Molloch, a doctor who advises South American dictatorships on how to torture people. The movie opens with Molloch demonstrating to a group of army officers the use of Electric Torture on a dissident journalist.

* VillainProtagonist

* IHaveYourWife: Holland plans to lure Molloch out into the open by kidnapping his sister Claire, ostensibly for ransom. [[spoiler:Molloch then gets his hands on Rhiana's daughter Susan, and suggests a PrisonerSwap instead.]]

* MindScrew

-->'''Dr. Clement Molloch:''' Human rights violations? There is no such thing. There is only the security of the state and those who'd undermine that security.

-->'''Holland:''' I guess you don't.
* PrisonerExchange
* PunkInTheTrunk: This backfires; when they open the trunk Claire is dead, because the trunk was shot full of holes while making their getaway.
* PsychoLesbian: The villainous version with Claire, who has a female prostitute come to her hotel room.
* ReadingLips: Holland discovers Claire will be alone in a hotel room by watching them through a telescope and lipreading her discussion with her brother. The skill is foreshadowed by having Rihanna complain to her friend how cold Holland is. Holland picks that moment to smile at her, apparently disproving her point. She just says sourly that she knows he can read lips.
* RetiredBadass: Holland. He pals around with a dolphin friend he's named [[TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Quasimodo]] in the Caymans, and shows no signs of wanting to give up his idyllic lifestyle, but when he's given proof and a reason to hunt Molloch down, he jumps back into action.

* ShamefulStrip
-->'''Molloch:''' "You have seen, gentlemen, how a woman must be made to remove her own clothing, depriving her of her dignity. With a man, it is the opposite. ''Strip him!''"

* SingleStrokeBattle: Averted with Randolph's death -- he cops a knife in the throat and chases Holland across the room before collapsing.

* MalevolentMaskedMen: Molloch is introduced wearing a black hood.
->"Now the hood which serves to separate the interrogator and subject psychologically is not always necessary. There are times when one does without it." ''(removes his hood to show the face of a white-haired, dignified-looking man)''

* {{Eagleland}}: Molloch gets help from the local CIA, as they've used his services before.

* ElectricTorture: The opening scene in which Molloch demonstrates this technique on journalist Jorge Hidalgo is unforgettable. A later scene lists the extensive injuries inflicted by such torture, including teeth shattered from being clenched so hard.

* HoneyTrap: Holland lures Randolph, one of Molloch's bodyguards, to his room by pretending he and Rhiana are into wife-swopping. Randolph doesn't have a wife, but he agrees that AThreesomeIsHot.

* IHaveYourWife: Holland plans to lure Molloch out into the open by kidnapping his sister Claire, ostensibly for ransom. Molloch then gets his hands on Rhiana's daughter Susan.
* ItsPersonal: Holland turns down money for the assignment, seeking only to avenge his friend. However he's reluctant to take his friend's wife on the assignment for the same reason.
* KarmicDeath: Molloch is murdered by his own victims.

'''The Evil That Men Do (1984)''' is an action/psychological-drama starring CharlesBronson and directed by J. Lee Thompson. Bronson plays Holland, an ex-CIA agent summoned out of retirement to investigate and assassinate Clemente Molloch (Joseph Maher), the essential TortureTechnician from Guatemala. Accompanying him is the wife (Theresa Saldana) and son of one of Molloch's recent victims.

* BoundAndGagged: Claire
* BulletproofVest: Charles Bronson shoots a CIA man with a shotgun, only for him to get up again. This time Bronson shoots him in the face.
* ChaseScene: Holland being pursued by a carload of CIA mooks.

* ClosetShuffle: While scoping out Claire's apartment, Holland has to hide under the bed, only for Claire and a hooker to end up using it.
* ComeAlone: He doesn't of course.
* DeadGuyOnDisplay: Holland dumping Randolph's body outside Molloch's house.
* DescriptionCut: "I guess they're away safely." Cut to Max being tortured.
* DramaticGunCock: Holland pumps the action of his shotgun twice in the mine scene.

* ElectricTorture: The movie opens with the MadDoctor demonstrating (to a group of army officers) the use of electric torture on a dissident journalist. Although the film cuts away, a later scene lists the extensive injuries inflicted by such torture, including teeth shattered from being clenched so hard.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Holland plays on this by kidnapping the only person Molloch cares about.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: The CIA car goes off the road and explodes in a ball of flame.

* EvilVersusEvil: Charles Bronson is a hitman hired to murder Dr Clement Molloch, a doctor who advises South American dictatorships on how to torture people. We see Bronson carry out several cold-blooded murders, to the shock of the woman accompanying him as his pretend wife.
* ExternalCombustion: Some foreign assassins try this to get Molloch, but he switches cars at the last minute. The agent who planted the bomb gets caught underneath the unused car when the warden's guard starts it...

* ForcedToWatch: The taped interviewees describe how 'The Doctor' forced them to watch their friends and relatives be raped and tortured.

** And in the taped interviews with Molloch's victims, one describes watching Molloch drive nails through his friend's testicles.
* HoneyTrap / AThreesomeIsHot: Holland lures Randolph, one of Molloch's bodyguards, to his room by pretending he and Rhiana are into wife-swopping.
* HumanShield: Holland can't shoot Molloch's driver, who's holding a pistol to Susan's head, until one of the miners throws a rock at his head and he turns to fire at them.

-->"The Doctor, the Doctor, the Doctor! Dr Clement Molloch, the man they call The Doctor!"

* ComeAlone

->"He was a nuisance, and I'm glad he's dead. I only wish he'd suffered a little longer."

* {{Blackmail}}: Randolph threatens to leak the fact that Molloch has been doing the CIA's dirty work if he doesn't get any help from Briggs.

* DramaticGunCock: Twice

* EveryCarIsAPinto

* EveryCarIsAPinto: The CIA car goes off the road and explodes in a ball of flame for no apparent reason.
* EvilBrit: Molloch is Welsh.

* {{Fanservice}}: We get a brief glimpse of the prostitute stripping naked in Claire's apartment.

-->'''Rihanna:''' How do you know?

* PunkInTheTrunk: This backfires; when they open the trunk the kidnap victim is dead, because the trunk was shot full of holes while making their getaway.

-->"You have seen, gentlemen, how a woman must be made to remove her own clothing, depriving her of her dignity. With a man, it is the opposite. ''Strip him!''"

* ThrowingOffTheDisability: A 'cripple' that accosts Holland for drugs later turns up at Molloch's house. "No crutch, and he walks like a champ."

* TranslationConvention: Averted; Rihanna translates any Spanish for Holland.

* GoryDiscretionShot: The CIA man copping a shotgun blast in the face. Molloch's death.

* OfficeGolf: Briggs at the US Embassy.

* WallOfWeapons: Handguns are seen on the wall of Holland's contact in Guatemala.

* PunkInTheTrunk: Holland dumping Randolph's body outside Molloch's house.
** This backfires; when they open the trunk the kidnap victim is dead, because the trunk was shot full of holes while making their getaway.

* PunkInTheTrunk: This backfires; when they open the trunk the kidnap victim is dead, because the trunk was shot full of holes while making their getaway.