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* MostDefinitelyNotAVillain: Vincent manages to deceive The Bentleys by shedding his hoodlum threads and affecting a persona of an {{Adorkable}} teen friend of Derek's. He even manages to charm Mr. Bentley who invites "Monty" to come around again sometime.
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* MostDefinitelyNotAVillain: Vincent manages to deceive The Bentleys by shedding his hoodlum threads and affecting a persona of an {{Adorkable}} a dorky teen friend of Derek's. He even manages to charm Mr. Bentley who invites "Monty" to come around again sometime.
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* ManChild: ManChild:
** Derek, very much so.
** Derek, very much so.
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* SpecialEffectFailure: When Chris falls through the greenhouse roof, it's very obviously a stuntman who is at least a foot taller than Chris, and he's not ''even wearing the same clothes.''
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* {{Woobie}}: Derek, big time. The whole mess happened due to peer pressure and Derek attempting to be accepted by his new hoodlum friends. In prison, he gets more and more terrified as his salvation options start to fall through.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Midway through the movie, Vincent brags about a robbery that he and Chris committed. He even [[WhatAnIdiot carries around the newspaper clipping about the crime]]. Towards the end of the movie it is revealed that the police did finally arrest him and sent him to prison for this stickup.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Midway through the movie, Vincent brags about a robbery that he and Chris committed. He even [[WhatAnIdiot carries around the newspaper clipping about the crime]].crime. Towards the end of the movie it is revealed that the police did finally arrest him and sent him to prison for this stickup.
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* MaleGaze: Stella climbs a ladder to both get a record for Iris and to [[TheTease show off to Derek]]. Both Derek and the camera make note of Stella's curvy buttocks.
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* Woobie: Derek, big time. The whole mess happened due to peer pressure and Derek attempting to be accepted by his new hoodlum friends.
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* Woobie: {{Woobie}}: Derek, big time. The whole mess happened due to peer pressure and Derek attempting to be accepted by his new hoodlum friends. In prison, he gets more and more terrified as his salvation options start to fall through.
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* SpecialEffectFailure: When Chris falls through the greenhouse roof, it's very obviously a stuntman who is at least a foot taller than Chris, and he's not ''even wearing the same clothes.''
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Midway through the movie, Vincent brags about a robbery that he and Chris committed. He even [[WhatAnIdiot carries around the newspaper clipping about the crime]]. Towards the end of the movie it is revealed that the police did finally arrest him and sent him to prison for this.this stickup.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Midway through the movie, Vincent brags about a robbery that he and Chris committed. He even [[WhatAnIdiot carries around the newspaper clipping about the crime]]. Towards the end of the movie it is revealed that the police did finally arrest him for this.
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* MostDefinitelyNotAVillain: Vincent manages to deceive The Bentleys by shedding his hoodlum threads and affecting a persona of an {Adorkable} teen friend of Derek's. He even manages to charm Mr. Bentley who invites "Monty" to come around again sometime.
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* MostDefinitelyNotAVillain: Vincent manages to deceive The Bentleys by shedding his hoodlum threads and affecting a persona of an {Adorkable} {{Adorkable}} teen friend of Derek's. He even manages to charm Mr. Bentley who invites "Monty" to come around again sometime.
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* MostDefinitelyNotAVillain: Vincent manages to deceive The Bentleys by shedding his hoodlum threads and affecting a persona of an {Adorkable} teen friend of Derek's. He even manages to charm Mr. Bentley who invites "Monty" to come around again sometime.
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** Chris may be considered a juvenile version of this trope. He idolizes American Gangster movies, tries to affect a tough hood persona, but his room is filled with children's toys.
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* KangarooCourt: Despite all the lavish trappings and procedures of Her Majesty's Court, the outcome isn't in doubt by the time Derek takes the stand.
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* ManChild: Derek, very much so.
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* OhCrap:
** Derek, when he realizes the cops have arrived and that they will be probably be caught.
** Mr. and Mrs. Bentley, when they find out the Home Secretary posted the execution date, despite all the public backlash. They're going through with this, no matter what.
* PetTheDog:
** Niven Craig, despite being a bloodthirsty hood, takes an avuncular liking to Derek, and even gives him his own jacket.
** Pierrepoint kindly reassures Derek before leading him to the scaffold. The warder also gives Derek a friendly wink.
** Derek, when he realizes the cops have arrived and that they will be probably be caught.
** Mr. and Mrs. Bentley, when they find out the Home Secretary posted the execution date, despite all the public backlash. They're going through with this, no matter what.
* PetTheDog:
** Niven Craig, despite being a bloodthirsty hood, takes an avuncular liking to Derek, and even gives him his own jacket.
** Pierrepoint kindly reassures Derek before leading him to the scaffold. The warder also gives Derek a friendly wink.
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* TheVamp: Stella, to an extent. While she doesn't do anything to directly corrupt Derek, he is smitten and sees the hoodlum life as a way to get access to her (or girls ''like'' her).
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* Woobie: Derek, big time. The whole mess happened due to peer pressure and Derek attempting to be accepted by his new hoodlum friends.
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* HangingJudgeL The cruel judge who sentenced Derek to death, despite him not being a killer, being mentally challenged, and being in custody at the time the death occurred.
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* HangingJudgeL The cruel judge who sentenced Derek to death, despite him not being a killer, being mentally challenged, and being in custody at the time the death occurred.
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* KarmaHoudini: The prosecutor who charged Derek with 1st degree murder, the jury who convicted him, and the judge who sentenced him to death.
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* LoopholeAbuse: Derek was an accomplice in the break-in and subsequent shooting and was in custody during the shooting, but because he was an adult and the actual gunman was a minor, Derek gets sentenced to hang due to FelonyMurder.
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* LoopholeAbuse: Derek was an accomplice in the break-in and subsequent shooting and was actually in custody during the shooting, latter, but because he was an adult and the actual gunman was a minor, Derek gets sentenced to hang due to FelonyMurder.
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* LoopholeAbuse: Derek was an accomplice in the break-in and subsequent shooting, but because he was an adult and the actual gunman was a minor, Derek gets sentenced to hang due to FelonyMurder.
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* LoopholeAbuse: Derek was an accomplice in the break-in and subsequent shooting and was in custody during the shooting, but because he was an adult and the actual gunman was a minor, Derek gets sentenced to hang due to FelonyMurder.
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* MisplacedRetribution: Derek is hanged while the actual murderer gets ten years. despite being in police custody when the shooting occurred.
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* MisplacedRetribution: Derek is hanged while the actual murderer gets ten years. years, despite being in police custody when the shooting occurred.
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* LoopeholeAbuse: Derek was an accomplice in the break-in and subsequent shooting, but because he was an adult and the actual gunman was a minor, Derek gets sentenced to hang due to FelonyMurder.
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* LoopeholeAbuse: LoopholeAbuse: Derek was an accomplice in the break-in and subsequent shooting, but because he was an adult and the actual gunman was a minor, Derek gets sentenced to hang due to FelonyMurder.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Bentley is sentenced to hang for PC Mile's murder, despite being arrested by then, while the actual gunman, Craig, spent a total of ten years in prison due to being a minor.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Bentley is sentenced to hang for PC Mile's Miles' murder, despite being arrested by then, while the actual gunman, Craig, spent a total of ten years in prison due to being a minor.
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* UniversalAmmo: Craig is unable to find any .455 Webley rounds, so he instead forces or files down various .45 and .41 ammo. When he trades another revolver for a Luger, he's advised he can force ".38s" into it in lieu of 9mm (presumably .38 S&W, also called .38/200 and .380 Mk I, as .38 Special would never fit), which he's apparently able to do and fires a round into the ceiling.
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* UniversalAmmo: Craig is unable to find any .455 Webley rounds, rounds for his Colt New Service, so he instead forces or files down various .45 and .41 ammo. He also says "Tommy gun ammo" (.45 ACP) will work.[[note]]It won't, since Colt didn't use shoulders in their chambers until mid-production of the [=M1917=] so a .45 ACP will slide away from the firing pin (and .455 revolvers were chambered for the longer Mk I round even after the shorter Mk II was introduced, so a .45 ACP round will move away even with a shoulder), and the cylinder isn't machined for moon clips (which would make it impossible to use any rimmed cartridge other than .45 Auto Rim).[[/note]] When he trades another revolver for a Luger, he's advised he can force ".38s" into it in lieu of 9mm (presumably .38 S&W, also called .38/200 and .380 Mk I, as .38 Special would never fit), is far too long), which he's apparently able to do and fires a round into the ceiling.
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* BlackCapOfDeath: The judge puts on the customary black cap before sentencing Derek to hang.
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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The film ends with a note saying Derek's sister Iris was still fighting for an acquittal. She died six years after the film was made. One year after that, Derek's sentence was overturned and he was pardoned.
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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The film ends with a note saying Derek's sister Iris was still fighting for an acquittal. She died six years after the film was made. One year after that, Derek's sentence was overturned and he was pardoned.pardoned.
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* WhereAreTheyNow: The film ends with a note saying Derek's sister Iris was still fighting for an acquittal. She died six years after the film was made. One year after that, Derek's sentence was overturned and he was pardoned.
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* WhereAreTheyNow: WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The film ends with a note saying Derek's sister Iris was still fighting for an acquittal. She died six years after the film was made. One year after that, Derek's sentence was overturned and he was pardoned.
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** Craig carries a Colt New Service in .455 Webley, which he modified by cutting down the barrel to about three inches. He trades a Colt Detective Special to another student for a Luger, claiming he has three more at home.
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** Craig carries a Colt New Service in .455 Webley, which he modified by cutting down the barrel to about three inches. He trades a Colt Detective Special Special, of which he claims to have three, to another student for a Luger, claiming he has three more at home.Luger.
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* FlareGun: A student hands in a brass Webley flare gun when Craig's teacher demands all his students place their guns on his desk.
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* FlareGun: A student hands in a brass Webley flare gun when Craig's teacher demands all his students place their guns on his desk. The teacher knowledgeably identifies it as being manufactured by the Wolseley Car Company.
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* UniversalAmmo: Craig is unable to find any .455 Webley rounds, so he instead forces or files down various .45 and .41 ammo. When he trades another revolver for a Luger, he's advised he can force ".38s" into it in lieu of 9mm (presumably .38 S&W, also called .38/200 and .380 Mk I, as .38 Special would never fit), which he's apparently able to do and fires a round into the ceiling.
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* UniversalAmmo: Craig is unable to find any .455 Webley rounds, so he instead forces or files down various .45 and .41 ammo. When he trades another revolver for a Luger, he's advised he can force ".38s" into it in lieu of 9mm (presumably .38 S&W, also called .38/200 and .380 Mk I, as .38 Special would never fit), which he's apparently able to do and fires a round into the ceiling.ceiling.
* WhereAreTheyNow: The film ends with a note saying Derek's sister Iris was still fighting for an acquittal. She died six years after the film was made. One year after that, Derek's sentence was overturned and he was pardoned.
* WhereAreTheyNow: The film ends with a note saying Derek's sister Iris was still fighting for an acquittal. She died six years after the film was made. One year after that, Derek's sentence was overturned and he was pardoned.
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''Let Him Have It'' is a 1991 British drama directed by Peter Medak, based on the true story of Derek Bentley.
Derek Bentley (Creator/ChristopherEccleston) is an illiterate, epileptic, mentally disabled young adult who falls into a gang led by a 16 year old student, Christopher Craig (Paul Reynolds). While breaking into a warehouse, Craig shoots and kills a police officer, PC Sidney Miles, resulting in Britain's most controversial court case.
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* AcquittedTooLate: Bentley received a pardon in 1998, decades after his execution, seven years after the movie was made and one year after his sister Iris' death.
* AmbiguousSyntax: Derek shouting "Let him have it". To this day, it is unclear if he meant it literally, as in "surrender the gun" (as argued by his defense) or figuratively, as in "shoot him" (as argued by the prosecution).
* DisproportionateRetribution: Bentley is sentenced to hang for PC Mile's murder, despite being arrested by then, while the actual gunman, Craig, spent a total of ten years in prison due to being a minor.
* FelonyMurder: "Joint enterprise" in Britain. Bentley is charged with murder due to being the only adult around, despite being under arrest and in custody when the shots were fired. The uproar this caused ultimately ended the practise of joint enterprise.
* FlareGun: A student hands in a brass Webley flare gun when Craig's teacher demands all his students place their guns on his desk.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: The defense argues that, as Craig had sawed off his revolver's barrel to about three inches, leaving a large jag that would send any bullet flying off randomly and having to make do with whatever ammo he could find and fit in the chambers, accuracy would be next to impossible, but it would be possible to hit something he ''wasn't'' aiming for, and thus PC Miles' death should be ruled manslaughter.
* RevolversAreJustBetter:
** Craig carries a Colt New Service in .455 Webley, which he modified by cutting down the barrel to about three inches. He trades a Colt Detective Special to another student for a Luger, claiming he has three more at home.
** Detective Sergeant Fairfax is seen retrieving a Smith and Wesson Second Model Hand Ejector when the shooting starts. Other constables are issued Enfield No. 2 revolvers before responding to the shooting. In real life, the London Metropolitan Police used a .32 automatic at the time (presumably the revolvers were chosen because they were easier to procure and were more reliable with blanks).
* UniversalAmmo: Craig is unable to find any .455 Webley rounds, so he instead forces or files down various .45 and .41 ammo. When he trades another revolver for a Luger, he's advised he can force ".38s" into it in lieu of 9mm (presumably .38 S&W, also called .38/200 and .380 Mk I, as .38 Special would never fit), which he's apparently able to do and fires a round into the ceiling.
Derek Bentley (Creator/ChristopherEccleston) is an illiterate, epileptic, mentally disabled young adult who falls into a gang led by a 16 year old student, Christopher Craig (Paul Reynolds). While breaking into a warehouse, Craig shoots and kills a police officer, PC Sidney Miles, resulting in Britain's most controversial court case.
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* AcquittedTooLate: Bentley received a pardon in 1998, decades after his execution, seven years after the movie was made and one year after his sister Iris' death.
* AmbiguousSyntax: Derek shouting "Let him have it". To this day, it is unclear if he meant it literally, as in "surrender the gun" (as argued by his defense) or figuratively, as in "shoot him" (as argued by the prosecution).
* DisproportionateRetribution: Bentley is sentenced to hang for PC Mile's murder, despite being arrested by then, while the actual gunman, Craig, spent a total of ten years in prison due to being a minor.
* FelonyMurder: "Joint enterprise" in Britain. Bentley is charged with murder due to being the only adult around, despite being under arrest and in custody when the shots were fired. The uproar this caused ultimately ended the practise of joint enterprise.
* FlareGun: A student hands in a brass Webley flare gun when Craig's teacher demands all his students place their guns on his desk.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: The defense argues that, as Craig had sawed off his revolver's barrel to about three inches, leaving a large jag that would send any bullet flying off randomly and having to make do with whatever ammo he could find and fit in the chambers, accuracy would be next to impossible, but it would be possible to hit something he ''wasn't'' aiming for, and thus PC Miles' death should be ruled manslaughter.
* RevolversAreJustBetter:
** Craig carries a Colt New Service in .455 Webley, which he modified by cutting down the barrel to about three inches. He trades a Colt Detective Special to another student for a Luger, claiming he has three more at home.
** Detective Sergeant Fairfax is seen retrieving a Smith and Wesson Second Model Hand Ejector when the shooting starts. Other constables are issued Enfield No. 2 revolvers before responding to the shooting. In real life, the London Metropolitan Police used a .32 automatic at the time (presumably the revolvers were chosen because they were easier to procure and were more reliable with blanks).
* UniversalAmmo: Craig is unable to find any .455 Webley rounds, so he instead forces or files down various .45 and .41 ammo. When he trades another revolver for a Luger, he's advised he can force ".38s" into it in lieu of 9mm (presumably .38 S&W, also called .38/200 and .380 Mk I, as .38 Special would never fit), which he's apparently able to do and fires a round into the ceiling.
