History Theatre / Oscar

* FakePregnancy: Lisa lies to her father about being pregnant so he will allow her to marry her boyfriend.

* SatchelSwitcheroo: There are three cases, having jewelry, cash, and lingerie. Angelo keeps thinking he's finally got the one with something valuable (money or jewels), only circumstances have given him the one with women's underthings... again. And because nearly all comedy protagonists choose the route most designed to embarrass them, he never bothers to check what's inside before dumping it out on the table in front of guests.

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[[caption-width-right:300:Hmmm... this [[Film/SafetyLast looks familiar]].]]

->'''Connie:''' Your daughter's not your daughter, and the cash that used to be your jewels is now your underwear!\\
'''Snaps:''' Now you've got it!\\
'''Connie:''' I got it! ''(beat)'' I don't even know what I'm ''talkin' '' about!

A screwball {{farce}} written by Claude Magnier as a play about an industrialist trying to get back the money one of his employees stole and the resulting complications. It was made into [[Film/Oscar1967 a French film]] (starring Creator/LouisDeFunes, who also starred in the play countless times) in 1967 that he co-wrote.

Then in 1991 the play was updated to be about a mobster trying to go straight, adding an extra complication to the plot. This was then made into an American film by director Creator/JohnLandis, starring Creator/SylvesterStallone, Creator/MarisaTomei, Creator/ChazzPalminteri, Creator/TimCurry, Creator/KurtwoodSmith, Creator/HarryShearer, Creator/DonAmeche and Creator/KirkDouglas, among several character actors.

Not to be confused with the nickname for the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward (which it didn't win any of anyway), or the 1966 film ''Film/TheOscar''.

!!The 1991 film provides examples of the following tropes:
* AccidentalTruth:[[spoiler:Theresa introducing herself to Anthony as Snaps daughter. Turns out her mother was an old girlfriend of his and he is her dad.]]
* AdaptationalNameChange: Every single character ''except'' for the titular one has their name changed.
** Bertrand Barnier --> Angelo "Snaps" Provolone
** Christian Martin --> Anthony Rossano
** Colette --> Lisa
** Charlotte --> Roxie
** Jacqueline --> Theresa
* AdaptationalNationality: The setting is moved from 1960s France to 1930s New York, and the cast of characters are therefore changed from French to American.
* AdaptationalJobChange: Snaps is a mobster instead of a businessman.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Dr. Poole's elocution lesson with Snaps:
-->'''Snaps''': When am I gonna start sounding like a banker?\\
'''Dr. Poole''': After me: [''Dr. Poole rolls his "r"'s as he speaks''] "Round the rough and rugged rocks, the ragged rascal rudely ran."\\
'''Snaps''' [''mumbling'']: Round the rough and rugged rocks--\\
'''Dr. Poole''': Round ''the'' rough and rugged rocks, ''the'' ragged...\\
'''Snaps''': Round the rough and rascal, the ragged... Aw, look, Doc, I just can't do it. I'll never learn to speak good.\\
'''Dr. Poole''': Rocco the rum-runner rubbed out Rico the Rat with his roscoe for robbing his rum-running receipts.\\
'''Snaps''': "Rocco the rum-runner rubbed out Rico the Rat with his roscoe for robbing his rum-running receipts."\\
'''Dr. Poole''': You've got it!\\
'''Snaps''': Well, sure! You finally came up with something that made sense!
* ArrangedMarriage: Lisa is getting married to an Arranger Marriage when the film starts, only to have it fall through when the husband falls for their maid.
* AllWomenAreLustful: Vendetti’s manicurist.
-->'''Manicurist''' *flirtatious voice* I finished your nails. Is there anything else I can do, huh?
%% * AlphaBitch: A non high-school example. Nora.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: When Lt. Toomey is looking at the documents:
-->'''Lt. Toomey''': University Club, Harvard Alumni Club, Republican National committee? Wait a minute: the City Commerce board of directors, City Trade Association board of directors, the State Financial Advisory Board, committee to re-elect UsefulNotes/HerbertHoover, East Side athletic club, and two tickets to the policemen's ball.
* AsideGlance: After receiving the last slap from his father, Angelo looks right into the [[NoFourthWall – apparently missing – fourth wall.]]
** He does so again after Connie suggests that the missing $50,000 turned into the underwear in the black bag as a miracle "like the loaves and the fishes."
* BigWhat: Snaps utters one of these after Lisa tells him she's pregnant.
* BlatantLies: According to Five Spot, his job is an "Honorable Profession” Yeah, right! Listening to other people’s private conversation is definitely honorable.
%% * BrickJoke: Expeditive
* CallBack: Unlike director Creator/JohnLandis, Snaps is not a fan of Music/CabCalloway's ''[[Film/TheBluesBrothers Minnie The Moocher]]''.
* CanonForeigner: The rival mobster, the cops, and Snaps' father don't really have an equivalent in the original play.
%% * CanNotSpitItOut: Dr. Poole. He gets better though.
* ChekhovsGun: Nora's frequently handled bag of lingerie proves beneficial just when Lt. Toomey is about to nail Snaps, and Toomey is humiliated when he's left "holding the bag".
* ChekhovsSkill: The fact Aldo doesn't make noise when he walks.
* CrucifiedHeroShot: Snaps stands in front of the fireplace with his arms stretched out in a pose unintentionally reminiscent of the crucifixion of Christ after Sofia demands that Snaps finds a husband for Lisa and her unborn child; Snaps was just tired and needed to rest for a bit.
* DeadpanSnarker: Almost everybody snarks, but mostly Snaps and Aldo. Even Dr. Poole has this moment when the bag is full of lingerie instead of the $50,000:
-->'''Dr. Poole''' [''speaking sarcastically while handling the lingerie'']: Mm, that's right, Mr. Provolone, I've never seen so much money. Here's money, um... and here's more money, and-- Oh, look. Here's a lovely new $20 bill.
* DeathGlare: Snaps and her daughter share one, after the former taunts the latter to hit her.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Spoofed when Snaps states of all the lowlifes he met in his life, the bankers are the really scary people.
-->'''Kirkwood''': I hate to say I told you so, but that's what we get for going into business with a crook!
-->'''Snaps''': I'm a crook? You come into my house with your fine print and addendums and try to con me out of my dough? Geez, I'm used to dealing with mobsters, bootleggers, and gunzles, but you bankers... are scary.
* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry: Anthony converts his petty cash to jewels, which he keeps in one of the bags that keep switching.
** Later, it was deciding to give up the jewels, rather than lose Theresa, that proved he really loved her.
* ExtendedDisarming: "It's like disarming [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI Germany...]]"
* FakePregnancy: Lisa lies to her father about being pregnant so he will allow her to marry her boyfriend
* {{Farce}}: The film is closer to [[TheThirties 1930s]] farces than modern comedies. Justified since the movie is set in 1931.
* ForeignRemake: Of ''[[Film/Oscar1967 Oscar]]'' (1967).
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Snaps mentions that he knows about Lisa's "lover" she says she thought he left her for good. Since Anthony never mentioned anything about leaving, (and even if he did, he wouldn’t have been there in the beginning of the movie) this foreshadows, not only that [[spoiler: Lisa’s lover is someone else, (namely Oscar) but also that he isn’t in the country anymore.]]
* GenderBlenderName: Connie, Snaps's right-hand man.
%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
* TheGoldenRule: Parodied in Vendetti's office:
-->'''Vendetti''': We're gonna observe the 11th commandment: "Do unto others before they do unto you."
* GoshDangItToHeck: Snaps, as Father Clemente enters the room:
-->'''Snaps''': That son of a...\\
[[LastSecondWordSwap [Father Clemente enters the room] ...gun!]] Gosh-a-mighty! Cheese and crackers!
* GrammarNazi:
** A Justified example is Dr. Thornton Poole, the speech therapist whom Snaps hires to improve his grammatical habits:
--->'''Connie''': Even in the old days, he was known as an honest crook.\\
'''Dr. Poole''': That's an oxymoron.\\
''' Connie''': Gee, you shouldn't oughta said that, Doc.\\
'''Snaps''': Yeah, leave Connie alone. He does the best he can.
** Happens again when Dr. Poole meets Aldo:
--->'''Aldo''': Oh, Dr. Poole! Come on in. The boss been expecting you.\\
'''Dr. Poole''': Aldo, do you realize what you just did?\\
'''Aldo''': What?\\
'''Dr. Poole''': You used the past participle without a modifier.\\
'''Aldo''': I did? What's the rap on that?
* HairTriggerTemper: Snaps has a lot of things that anger him. One of the examples is that you shouldn’t even try waking him up before nine am.
-->'''Aldo''' The Boss don’t get up before 9:00 a.m. Even the feds know that!
* {{Hammerspace}}: Connie's coat, which hides a ton of weapons.
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Oscar, [[spoiler:up until the end, subverted when he tries to stop Lisa's marriage and is turned out on his ear.]]
* IGaveMyWord: Snaps is insistent on fulfilling his father's dying wish in the face of the day's mounting insanity, only giving up after the bankers try and fail to rip him off.
%% * IKnowYouKnowIKnow
* LastRequest: Snaps promises his dying father that he'll give up his life of crime at the beginning of the film, thus setting things in motion.
* LastSecondWordSwap:
-->'''Snaps:''' Damn! Son of a-- ''(sees Father Clemente)'' gun, gosh almighty! Cheese and crackers!
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Largo al factotum della citta" from Theatre/TheBarberOfSeville, with vocal performances at the beginning and end, and instrumental excerpt reprises throughout the film.
* LoveAtFirstSight: The ArrangedMarriage Angelo makes for Lisa falls through because the guy fell in love with the family's maid.
* LukeYouAreMyFather / LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Theresa said she was Angelo's daughter to make Anthony think she came from a well-to-do family. She later confesses this lie to Angelo himself. Neither she nor Angelo knew that Theresa really is Snaps' daughter from when he and her mother Roxanne worked for the same mob boss.]]
* {{Malaproper}}: Aldo, as noticed by Dr. Poole's observation of Aldo:
-->'''Dr. Poole''': [[LampshadeHanging Aldo is a treasure trove of linguistic anomalies.]]
* MeaningfulName: Angelo "Snaps" Provolone, because he snaps his fingers, and he has frequent anger snaps.
* MistakenForPregnant: Lisa tricks Snaps into thinking she's pregnant so he'll let her marry whom she thinks is her ex, Oscar.
* MistakenIdentity: Snaps thinks Anthony wants to marry Lisa at first, while Lisa thinks Oscar came back to marry her when he tells her.
* MixedMetaphor: When the cops are staked out on a surveillance of Snaps' mansion:
-->'''Lt. Toomey''': A leopard don't change its stripes.\\
'''Officer Keough''': You mean spots.\\
'''Lt. Toomey''': I mean Snaps!
* MorallyBankruptBanker: The bankers are a snotty lot who only care about the million stricken by poverty in regards to how it will affect their business and are happy at the idea of taking Snaps money to be a partner but then denying him much influence.
* MyBelovedSmother: Thornton identifies with Lisa wanting to get out of the house, since his mother "can be so possessive".
* MoodWhiplash: Downplayed. The cheerful theme song turn into creepy when the camera zooms to Toomey’s hideout.
* TheNewRockAndRoll: An anachronistic 1930's variant (since rock and roll wasn't around in the '30s) when Snaps enters Lisa's room:
-->'''Snaps''': It's this music you kids listen to today! Bing Crosby, Cab Calloway... Don't think I haven't heard the lyrics to "Minnie the Moocher."
* NotNamedInOpeningCredits: Snaps' father, Eduardo Provolone on his death bed, played by [[spoiler: Creator/KirkDouglas]].
* ObliviousToHisOwnDescription: See the page quote.
* OffTheTable: When the bankers showed they didn't trust Angelo, he ended up not doing business with them.
* OneDialogueTwoConversations: Snaps browbeats Anthony into marrying Lisa by convincing him that his tailors, the Finuccis are really hired killers. When they later brag about their success (a photo of a murdered gangster wearing one of their suits) and offer to make him a suit, Anthony thinks they're the ones who killed him and are threatening to do the same to him.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: The presumably-Irish maid drops her accent as soon as she's out of the Provolone household, but turns it back on when she returns for her bag.
* OverlyLongGag: The ExtendedDisarming example above.
* OverprotectiveDad: Snaps, who already has a marriage set up for Lisa whether she likes it or not, and resorts to deception, blackmail, threats, and bribery to get her a husband when he thinks that she's pregnant.
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Lisa and [[spoiler:Dr. Poole]] get shoved together rather abruptly as a matter of convenience but turn out to have a lot in common and get along nicely.
* PiecemealFundsTransfer: Anthony, who took over Snaps' bookkeeping, used the protection profits to upgrade the bootlegging, and save 10 cents on each bottle of beer, only to lower the costs by 5 cents instead of 10, and accumulated a sizable nest egg of $50,000 a nickel at a time.
* PlayingGertrude: Ornella Muti plays Sofia Provolone; her daughter Lisa played by Creator/MarisaTomei. Muti was born in 1955 and Tomei was born just nine years later in 1964.
* PoliceAreUseless: Subverted with Lt. Toomey, who fails to find the money after he's left "holding the bag" of lingerie, but then has a "run-in" with Vendetti's gang, whom he promptly arrests afterwards.
* PonziScheme: Anthony offers to buy the $50,000 worth of jewelry (which he acquired by embezzling from Snaps) by attempting to buy back the jewels from Snaps with another $50,000 he had also embezzled from Snaps, in a "rob Peter to pay Paul scenario".
-->'''Anthony''': I'll make you a deal, Mr. P.\\
'''Snaps''': What kind of a deal?\\
'''Anthony''': Well, I've become attached to those jewels; they remind me of Theresa. I'd like to buy them back from you for $50,000.\\
'''Snaps''': Now where'd you come up with another 50,000 smackers?\\
'''Anthony''': I stole it from you.\\
'''Snaps''': [[SuddenlyShouting '''CONNIE!''']] \\
'''Connie''' [''entering the room'']: What is it, boss?\\
'''Connie''' [''Snaps takes what he thinks is a gun, but is actually a leg and thigh of chicken'']: You took my gun.\\
'''Snaps''': ''Now'' you're trying to tell me you stole another 50,000 clams since the last time I saw you?\\
'''Anthony''': Remember that dummy corporation I set up for you to hide your protection income?\\
'''Snaps''': Yeah.\\
'''Anthony''': Remember who you made treasurer as a beard?[[note]]In this case, a "beard" is an alias used to conceal the identity of the actual boss[[/note]]\\
'''Snaps''': You didn't!\\
'''Anthony''': I just wrote out a check to myself. As treasurer, the bank asked me no questions.\\
'''Snaps''': Only a rat would steal another guy's extortion money.\\
'''Anthony''': Here's my offer: You give me back the jewels that are rightfully mine, and I'll give you back the money, which isn't.\\
'''Snaps''': All right, I guess you outsmarted me. You give me that money, and I'll give you these jewels.
* PrettyInMink: Sofia wears a couple, and the maid wears a fur coat after she leaves to get married.
* PunnyName: Snaps Provolone, especially since provolone is a well-known Italian cheese; this movie can be considered one of Creator/SylvesterStallone's "cheesier" performances.
* ReallyGetsAround: Lisa, according to the conversation between Snaps and Sofia:
-->'''Sofia''': I just came from Lisa's bedroom.\\
'''Snaps''': You and everybody else.
* TheRoaringTwenties: It's set during the 1920's, with an emphasis on both the collapse of the banks and the predominance of gangsters.
* RunningGag: Snaps reminding his {{Mooks}} Connie and Aldo to stop calling him boss, followed by them accidentally saying "Yes, boss."
* SherlockScan: Dr. Poole does a version of this with Anthony by guessing where he's from based off how he speaks. Before he says a word. This was not the first time they had met though.
* SatchelSwitcheroo: Anthony's satchel bag with $50,000 in jewelry, another satchel bag containing $50,000 in cash, and Nora's bag containing her lingerie.
* SarcasmBlind: In the scene, where Angelo is looking for Anthony and asks his servants, Aldo tells him that Oscar fell in love with a girl but he couldn’t marry with her because his father is jerk. Snaps then asks "Oh, is that so?”, he fails to recognize he was only sarcastic and keeps explaining.
* ScrewballComedy: The romance aspect of it is constantly battered around as at one point as everyone seems to reveal or find new love interests.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Connie’s Sensitive Guy to Snaps and Aldo’s Manly Man.
* ShoutOut:
** To ''{{Film/Clue}}'': "Damn, a double negative!"
** When Snaps's accountant shows up at the door:
--->'''Aldo''': Well, well, well. If it isn't Little Anthony... and his Imperial.
** A reference to Godfather's Pizza when Vendetti heads for Snaps's mansion and tells his secretary, "Order out for pizza".
* ASimplePlan: There are several (Snaps plan to go straight, Anthony's plan to marry Theresa, Lisa's to fake she's pregnant etc.), which makes this a simple plan pileup.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Oscar, who Lisa falsely claims to be pregnant by (kicking off the plot) is only onscreen for less than a minute at the end.
* SpoiledBrat: Lisa has been very indulged by her parents in the past and is prone to shouting in frustration about how they drive her crazy now.
* StockClockHandHang: The movie poster has Snaps hang from the hands of a large clock, referring to the day's mounting insanity.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Sometimes Angelo seriously has this feeling. After finding out that Connie fails to guard the bag with the jewels, he lampshades It.
-->'''Snaps''': Keep her (Theresa) on ice. I’m lookin’ for somethin’n
-->'''Aldo''': What?
-->'''Snaps''': A bag just like this one.
-->'''Aldo''': Ah, don’t worry about that. I gave It back to Underwood’s chauffeur.
-->'''Snaps''': You did what?
-->'''Aldo''': It was sittin in the library before, so I swtiched the bags for ya.
-->'''Snaps''': And where was Einstein?
-->'''Aldo''': Was Connie in here? Connie, was you in here? I didn’t see him.
-->'''Snaps''': Why don’t you stand over there next to your girlfriend?
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Connie's loads of weapons that he has in his clothes. Among many other things, his arsenal includes revolvers, knives, brass knuckles, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs a knife with a brass-knuckled handle]], poison, a meathook, a flail, and a ''ticking bundle of dynamite.''
* ThrowTheDogABone: Lieutenant Toomey is humiliated for his attempts to arrest Snaps in front of reporters during his mysterious meeting with men who turn out to be prominent bankers. But he does get to be the hero by arresting several prominent gangsters who tried to kill Snap in front of those same reporters.
* VerbalTic: Vendetti's informant "Five-Spot" Charlie, who stutters like WesternAnimation/PorkyPig, and has a lisp similar to Gopher from the animated version of Franchise/WinnieThePooh, or Floyd the Barber from Series/TheAndyGriffithShow.
* WholeCostumeReference: Lisa's FairytaleWeddingDress is a copy of the dress from ''Film/ItHappenedOneNight''.

* PlayingGertrude:Ornella Muti plays Creator/MarisaTomei's mother. Muti was born in 1955 and Tomei was born in 1964.

Then in 1991 the play was updated to be about a mobster trying to go straight, adding an extra complication to the plot. This was then made into an American film by director Creator/JohnLandis, starring Creator/SylvesterStallone, Creator/TimCurry, Creator/MarisaTomei, Creator/KurtwoodSmith, Creator/HarryShearer, Creator/DonAmeche and Creator/KirkDouglas, among several character actors.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "Watch it there, Connie. You've got a dangling participle."
** Dr. Poole, when talking with Snaps:
-->'''Dr. Poole''': "She seems to have such nicely rounded diphthongs."\\
'''Snaps''': That's what got her into this jam!
** When Snaps goes up to Lisa's bedroom:
-->'''Lisa''': You kept me a prisoner up here - like Rapunzel.\\
'''Snaps''': Well, you certainly ain't Snow White!

Not to be confused with the nickname for the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward (which it didn't win any anyway).

* FakePregnancy: Lisa lies to her father about being pregnant so he will allow her to marry her boyfriend.

** Dr. Thornton Poole, the speech therapist whom Snaps hires to improve his grammatical habits:

* PoliceAreUseless: Subverted with Lt. Toomey, who fails to find the money after he's left "holding the bag" of lingerie, and has a "run-in" with Vendetti's gang, whom he promptly arrests afterwards.

* TheRoaringTwenties

%% * ScrewballComedy

%% * ASimplePlan: Several, which makes this a simple plan pileup.
%% * SpoiledBrat: Lisa

* GoOutWithASmile: Snaps's father after Angelo promises to go straight. But he gives Angelo another slap just so he won't forget.

* CanonForeigner: The rival mobster, the cops, and Snaps' father don't really have an equivalent in the original story.

Then in 1991 the play was updated to be about a mobster trying to go straight, adding an extra complication to the plot. This was then made into an American film by director Creator/JohnLandis, starring Creator/SylvesterStallone, Creator/TimCurry, Creator/MarisaTomei, Creator/KurtwoodSmith, Creator/HarryShearer, Don Ameche and Creator/KirkDouglas, among several character actors.

A screwball {{farce}} written by Claude Magnier as a play about an industrialist trying to get back the money one of his employees stole and the resulting complications. It was made into [[Film/Oscar1967 a French film]] (starring Creator/LouisDeFunes, who also starred in the play countless times) in 1967 that he co-wrote. Then in 1991 the play was updated to be about a mobster trying to go straight, adding an extra complication to the plot. This was then made into an American film by director Creator/JohnLandis, starring Creator/SylvesterStallone, Creator/TimCurry, Creator/MarisaTomei, Creator/KurtwoodSmith, Creator/HarryShearer, Don Ameche and Creator/KirkDouglas, among several character actors.

!!''Oscar'' (the American movie) provides examples of the following tropes:

* BerserkButton: Snaps has a lot. One of the examples is that you shouldn’t even try waking him up before nine am.
-->'''Aldo''' The Boss don’t get up before 9:00 a.m. Even the feds know that!

* GrammarNazi: Dr. Thornton Poole, the speech therapist whom Snaps hires to improve his grammatical habits:
-->'''Connie''': Even in the old days, he was known as an honest crook.
-->'''Dr. Poole''': That's an oxymoron.
-->''' Connie''': Gee, you shouldn't oughta said that, Doc.
-->'''Snaps''': Yeah, leave Connie alone. He does the best he can.

-->'''Aldo''': Oh, Dr. Poole! Come on in. The boss been expecting you.
-->'''Dr. Poole''': Aldo, do you realize what you just did?
-->'''Aldo''': What?
-->'''Dr. Poole''': You used the past participle without a modifier.
-->'''Aldo''': I did? What's the rap on that?

* IKnowYouKnowIKnow

* ArrangedMarriage: Lisa is in one of these when the film starts, only to have it fall through when the husband falls for their maid.

* AlphaBitch: A non high-school example. Nora.

* BrickJoke: Expeditive

* CanNotSpitItOut: Dr. Poole. He gets better though.

* ScrewballComedy

* ShoutOut: [[{{Film/Clue}} "Damn, a double negative!"]]

-->'''Aldo''': Well, well, well. If it isn't Little Anthony... and his Imperial.
** A possible reference to Godfather's Pizza when Vendetti heads for Snaps's mansion and tells his secretary, "Order out for pizza".
* SpoiledBrat: Lisa
* ASimplePlan: Several, which makes this a simple plan pileup.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Sometimes Angelo seriously has this feeling. After finding out that Connie fails to guard the bag with the jewels he somewhat lampshades It.

A screwball farce written by Claude Magnier as a play about an industrialist trying to get back the money one of his employees stole and the resulting complications. It was made into [[Film/Oscar1967 a French film]] (starring Creator/LouisDeFunes, who also starred in the play countless times) in 1967 that he co-wrote. Then in 1991 the play was updated to be about a mobster trying to go straight, adding an extra complication to the plot. This was then made into an American film by director Creator/JohnLandis, starring Creator/SylvesterStallone, Creator/TimCurry, Creator/MarisaTomei, Creator/KurtwoodSmith, Creator/HarryShearer, Don Ameche and Creator/KirkDouglas, among several character actors.

A traditional farce, it features loads of swapping of little black bags (which may contain jewels or underwear, as the plot requires) than any other film in memory. Contains the mook with a ridiculous armory in his jacket (blackjack, pistol, club, knife, switchblade, brass knuckles...): "It's like disarming Germany!"

!!''Oscar'' (the american movie) provides examples of the following tropes:

* LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: Overton, Milhous, Van Leland, and Kirkwood, who pose as bankers and almost persuade Snaps to sign over his money to their bank, until Lt. Toomey raids Snaps' place and reveals Kirkwood is really O'Banion's triggerman "Fingers" Frischetti, and Milhous is revealed to be Sid "The Shiv" Saperstein, and the cops uncover a bunch of bogus documents.