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Griffith plays Jack, a Confederate soldier during UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar who is sent west on an espionage mission. The Union government is deep in debt due to the war effort, but they are anticipating a badly needed deposit of gold from a rich strike in the Nevada mountains. Jack's mission is to gain the confidence of miner Silas Woodcock (Mack Swain, ''Film/TheGoldRush''), while doing whatever he can to keep the gold out of Union hands. Complicating Jack's efforts in Nevada are the Union officer sent to take possession of the gold, as well as Woodcock's two pretty daughters, Alice and Mae, both of whom fall in love with him.
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Griffith plays Jack, a Confederate soldier during UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar who is sent west on an espionage mission. The Union government is deep in debt due to the war effort, but they are anticipating a badly needed deposit of gold from a rich strike in the Nevada mountains. Jack's mission is to gain the confidence of miner Silas Woodcock (Mack Swain, ''Film/TheGoldRush''), (Creator/MackSwain), while doing whatever he can to keep the gold out of Union hands. Complicating Jack's efforts in Nevada are the Union officer sent to take possession of the gold, as well as Woodcock's two pretty daughters, Alice and Mae, both of whom fall in love with him.
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''Hands Up!'' is a 1926 comedy film directed by Clarence Badger and starring Raymond Griffith. Griffith plays Jack, a Confederate soldier during UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar who is sent west on an espionage mission. The Union government is deep in debt due to the war effort, but they are anticipating a badly needed deposit of gold from a rich strike in the Nevada mountains. Jack's mission is to gain the confidence of miner Silas Woodcock (Mack Swain, ''Film/TheGoldRush''), while doing whatever he can to keep the gold out of Union hands. Complicating Jack's efforts in Nevada are the Union officer sent to take possession of the gold, as well as Woodcock's two pretty daughters, Alice and Mae, both of whom fall in love with him.
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''Hands Up!'' is a 1926 comedy film directed by Clarence Badger and starring Raymond Griffith.
Griffith plays Jack, a Confederate soldier during UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar who is sent west on an espionage mission. The Union government is deep in debt due to the war effort, but they are anticipating a badly needed deposit of gold from a rich strike in the Nevada mountains. Jack's mission is to gain the confidence of miner Silas Woodcock (Mack Swain, ''Film/TheGoldRush''), while doing whatever he can to keep the gold out of Union hands. Complicating Jack's efforts in Nevada are the Union officer sent to take possession of the gold, as well as Woodcock's two pretty daughters, Alice and Mae, both of whom fall in love with him.
Griffith plays Jack, a Confederate soldier during UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar who is sent west on an espionage mission. The Union government is deep in debt due to the war effort, but they are anticipating a badly needed deposit of gold from a rich strike in the Nevada mountains. Jack's mission is to gain the confidence of miner Silas Woodcock (Mack Swain, ''Film/TheGoldRush''), while doing whatever he can to keep the gold out of Union hands. Complicating Jack's efforts in Nevada are the Union officer sent to take possession of the gold, as well as Woodcock's two pretty daughters, Alice and Mae, both of whom fall in love with him.
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Raymond Griffith was a big star in TheTwenties, but he and his films are almost completely forgotten today. ''Hands Up!'' has a place in the NationalFilmRegistry. KeepCirculatingTheTapes, as this film has never been released in an authorized video format.
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Raymond Griffith was a big star in TheTwenties, but he and his films are almost completely forgotten today. ''Hands Up!'' has a place in the NationalFilmRegistry.UsefulNotes/NationalFilmRegistry. KeepCirculatingTheTapes, as this film has never been released in an authorized video format.
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* LoveTriangle / SiblingTriangle: Jack, Silas's pretty blonde daughter Mae, and Silas's pretty brunette daughter Alice. With a ''very'' unusual resolution; see MarryThemAll below.
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* ThirdOptionLoveInterest: What to do when in love with two sisters? Well, you could pick one. Or you could do something else--see MarryEmAll above.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Averted. Although blonde Mae and brunette Alice look like a Betty and Veronica dilemma, the gag is that they are almost exactly the same--they flirt with Jack in the same way, they react the same way when he asks each one separately to marry him, and they each pretend to be his wife to save him from hanging. This sets up the final joke (see MarryEmAll below).
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* BettyAndVeronica: Averted. Although blonde Mae and brunette Alice look like a Betty and Veronica dilemma, the gag is that they are almost exactly the same--they flirt with Jack in the same way, they react the same way when he asks each one separately to marry him, and they each pretend to be his wife to save him from hanging. This sets up the final joke (see MarryEmAll MarryThemAll below).
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* LoveTriangle: Jack, Silas's pretty blonde daughter Mae, and Silas's pretty brunette daughter Alice. With a ''very'' unusual resolution; see MarryEmAll below.
* MarryEmAll: At the end, each sister realizes the other is also in love with Jack and offers to step aside. Jack is puzzling about how to resolve the LoveTriangle when a stagecoach arrives. A bearded man exits the stagecoach and introduces the sisters to his wife, who exits the stagecoach behind him. Then a second wife emerges, then a third. Five wives come out of the coach before the man is revealed to be Brigham Young. The film ends with Griffith leaving with both sisters in the stagecoach, which has a sign on the back reading "To Salt Lake City".
* MarryEmAll: At the end, each sister realizes the other is also in love with Jack and offers to step aside. Jack is puzzling about how to resolve the LoveTriangle when a stagecoach arrives. A bearded man exits the stagecoach and introduces the sisters to his wife, who exits the stagecoach behind him. Then a second wife emerges, then a third. Five wives come out of the coach before the man is revealed to be Brigham Young. The film ends with Griffith leaving with both sisters in the stagecoach, which has a sign on the back reading "To Salt Lake City".
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* LoveTriangle: Jack, Silas's pretty blonde daughter Mae, and Silas's pretty brunette daughter Alice. With a ''very'' unusual resolution; see MarryEmAll MarryThemAll below.
*MarryEmAll: MarryThemAll: At the end, each sister realizes the other is also in love with Jack and offers to step aside. Jack is puzzling about how to resolve the LoveTriangle when a stagecoach arrives. A bearded man exits the stagecoach and introduces the sisters to his wife, who exits the stagecoach behind him. Then a second wife emerges, then a third. Five wives come out of the coach before the man is revealed to be Brigham Young. The film ends with Griffith leaving with both sisters in the stagecoach, which has a sign on the back reading "To Salt Lake City".
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''Hands Up!'' is a 1926 comedy film directed by Clarence Badger and starring Raymond Griffith. Griffith plays Jack, a Confederate soldier during UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar who is sent west on an espionage mission. The Union government is deep in debt due to the war effort, but they are anticipating a badly needed deposit of gold from a rich strike in the Nevada mountains. Jack's mission is to gain the confidence of miner Silas Woodcock (Mack Swain, ''Film/TheGoldRush''), while doing whatever he can to keep the gold out of Union hands. Complicating Jack's efforts in Nevada are the Union officer sent to take possession of the gold, as well as Woodcock's two pretty daughters, Alice and Mae, both of whom fall in love with him.
Raymond Griffith was a big star in TheTwenties, but he and his films are almost completely forgotten today. ''Hands Up!'' has a place in the NationalFilmRegistry. KeepCirculatingTheTapes, as this film has never been released in an authorized video format.
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* AllForNothing: After an epic chase through town, Jack gets the drop on Silas and Capt. Logan, tells Alice and Mae to get the stagecoach carrying the gold, and seemingly has won--when everyone starts cheering. Lee has surrendered and the war is over.
* AloneInACrowd: Jack, frozen in shock, standing motionless as everyone else goes bananas celebrating the end of the war.
* AnachronismStew: The Indians have captured Jack's party and seem to be about to kill them all. They go into a war dance, when Jack frowns, shakes his head, and proceeds to teach them the Charleston.
* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: The opening title to this very silly film says it is "an historical incident, with variations."
* BettyAndVeronica: Averted. Although blonde Mae and brunette Alice look like a Betty and Veronica dilemma, the gag is that they are almost exactly the same--they flirt with Jack in the same way, they react the same way when he asks each one separately to marry him, and they each pretend to be his wife to save him from hanging. This sets up the final joke (see MarryEmAll below).
* CasualDangerDialog: As General Lee briefs Jack on his mission, the chaos of battle increases around them, with bullets flying, cannonballs skipping past, and finally the cabin they're in exploding. Neither of them so much as flinch.
--> '''Lee''': This is a secret between the three of us.
--> (Lee's adjutant is shot and killed)
--> '''Jack''': The two of us, sir!
* DirtyCoward: Capt. Logan, the Union officer sent to take custody of the gold, abandons Jack, Silas, and the girls when the Indians attack.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Jack reads the palms of the two sisters and tells them "you're each going to marry a dark man." They do. Him.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Jack sets off an explosion in order to wreck Woodcock's mine. An enormous blast shatters the whole operation--and opens up an even bigger, richer gold vein.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Sitting Bull, and Brigham Young all appear.
* InjunCountry: While on the way to the gold mine, the coach carrying Silas, Jack, Silas's daughters, and Union Capt. Logan is waylaid by Indians. Jack the charmer charms his way out of this jam by teaching the Indians how to dance the Charleston and playing craps with the Indian chief.
* LoveTriangle: Jack, Silas's pretty blonde daughter Mae, and Silas's pretty brunette daughter Alice. With a ''very'' unusual resolution; see MarryEmAll below.
* MarryEmAll: At the end, each sister realizes the other is also in love with Jack and offers to step aside. Jack is puzzling about how to resolve the LoveTriangle when a stagecoach arrives. A bearded man exits the stagecoach and introduces the sisters to his wife, who exits the stagecoach behind him. Then a second wife emerges, then a third. Five wives come out of the coach before the man is revealed to be Brigham Young. The film ends with Griffith leaving with both sisters in the stagecoach, which has a sign on the back reading "To Salt Lake City".
* PocketProtector: The Indian chief grabs Jack by the neck and twice tries to slice his stomach open. The blade is deflected by the somewhat oversized pair of dice that Jack is carring in his coat.
* RoofHopping: Jack resorts to this when he is finally exposed as the spy and the local garrison comes after him.
* SharpDressedMan: During his whole time in the West--fleeing from Indians, blowing up gold mines, running away from a posse, stealing stagecoaches--Jack is dressed in white tie and tails, with a top hat, a cape, and a walking stick to boot. This was Griffith's IconicOutfit.
* ShotAtDawn: It turns out that you can distract the firing squad that is trying to execute you by flinging dinner plates in the air for them to shoot at.
* ThirdOptionLoveInterest: What to do when in love with two sisters? Well, you could pick one. Or you could do something else--see MarryEmAll above.
* TitleDrop: Silas says "Hands up!" to Jack after Jack is exposed as the spy.
Raymond Griffith was a big star in TheTwenties, but he and his films are almost completely forgotten today. ''Hands Up!'' has a place in the NationalFilmRegistry. KeepCirculatingTheTapes, as this film has never been released in an authorized video format.
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!!Tropes:
* AllForNothing: After an epic chase through town, Jack gets the drop on Silas and Capt. Logan, tells Alice and Mae to get the stagecoach carrying the gold, and seemingly has won--when everyone starts cheering. Lee has surrendered and the war is over.
* AloneInACrowd: Jack, frozen in shock, standing motionless as everyone else goes bananas celebrating the end of the war.
* AnachronismStew: The Indians have captured Jack's party and seem to be about to kill them all. They go into a war dance, when Jack frowns, shakes his head, and proceeds to teach them the Charleston.
* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: The opening title to this very silly film says it is "an historical incident, with variations."
* BettyAndVeronica: Averted. Although blonde Mae and brunette Alice look like a Betty and Veronica dilemma, the gag is that they are almost exactly the same--they flirt with Jack in the same way, they react the same way when he asks each one separately to marry him, and they each pretend to be his wife to save him from hanging. This sets up the final joke (see MarryEmAll below).
* CasualDangerDialog: As General Lee briefs Jack on his mission, the chaos of battle increases around them, with bullets flying, cannonballs skipping past, and finally the cabin they're in exploding. Neither of them so much as flinch.
--> '''Lee''': This is a secret between the three of us.
--> (Lee's adjutant is shot and killed)
--> '''Jack''': The two of us, sir!
* DirtyCoward: Capt. Logan, the Union officer sent to take custody of the gold, abandons Jack, Silas, and the girls when the Indians attack.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Jack reads the palms of the two sisters and tells them "you're each going to marry a dark man." They do. Him.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Jack sets off an explosion in order to wreck Woodcock's mine. An enormous blast shatters the whole operation--and opens up an even bigger, richer gold vein.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Sitting Bull, and Brigham Young all appear.
* InjunCountry: While on the way to the gold mine, the coach carrying Silas, Jack, Silas's daughters, and Union Capt. Logan is waylaid by Indians. Jack the charmer charms his way out of this jam by teaching the Indians how to dance the Charleston and playing craps with the Indian chief.
* LoveTriangle: Jack, Silas's pretty blonde daughter Mae, and Silas's pretty brunette daughter Alice. With a ''very'' unusual resolution; see MarryEmAll below.
* MarryEmAll: At the end, each sister realizes the other is also in love with Jack and offers to step aside. Jack is puzzling about how to resolve the LoveTriangle when a stagecoach arrives. A bearded man exits the stagecoach and introduces the sisters to his wife, who exits the stagecoach behind him. Then a second wife emerges, then a third. Five wives come out of the coach before the man is revealed to be Brigham Young. The film ends with Griffith leaving with both sisters in the stagecoach, which has a sign on the back reading "To Salt Lake City".
* PocketProtector: The Indian chief grabs Jack by the neck and twice tries to slice his stomach open. The blade is deflected by the somewhat oversized pair of dice that Jack is carring in his coat.
* RoofHopping: Jack resorts to this when he is finally exposed as the spy and the local garrison comes after him.
* SharpDressedMan: During his whole time in the West--fleeing from Indians, blowing up gold mines, running away from a posse, stealing stagecoaches--Jack is dressed in white tie and tails, with a top hat, a cape, and a walking stick to boot. This was Griffith's IconicOutfit.
* ShotAtDawn: It turns out that you can distract the firing squad that is trying to execute you by flinging dinner plates in the air for them to shoot at.
* ThirdOptionLoveInterest: What to do when in love with two sisters? Well, you could pick one. Or you could do something else--see MarryEmAll above.
* TitleDrop: Silas says "Hands up!" to Jack after Jack is exposed as the spy.
