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* ChekhovsGunman: Medical Officer Arnaud makes a brief appearance in the first act as someone for the convicts to threaten and pickpocket, but shows up again in the final act for a LastMinuteHookUp with Isabelle.
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* GentlemanThief: Jules, the most polite and sophisticated of the convicts, had a long career as a brilliant safecracker before committing a murder unrelated to his string of thefts.
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* LostInACrowd: The three escaped convicts make no effort to hide how they come from the prison and almost everyone just assumes they are among the hundreds of paroled convicts doing odd jobs around the island rather than the recent fugitives.
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* PetTheDog: Paul may be a slimy, greedy creep, but, unlike his uncle, he shows a willingness to keep Andre working at the store despite his poor sales as long as the inventory checks out (although he does smugly vow to fire his relative if it doesn’t check out).
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* {{Confessional}}: The escaped convicts posing as priests hear confessions form the locals but are unprepared for this. When one man confesses to chewing on his wife, Ned [[ComicallyMissingThePoint tells him that it's no big deal as long as she doesn't know.]]
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* {{Confessional}}: The escaped convicts posing as priests hear confessions form from the locals but are unprepared for this. When one man confesses to chewing on his wife, Ned [[ComicallyMissingThePoint tells him that it's no big deal as long as she doesn't know.]]
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* SweetAndSourGrapes: The convicts are hoping to get off the island, yet at the very end of the film - when victory is within reach - they decide that their lives are better spent in the relative security of the prison. As they head back to turn themselves in, halos appear above each of their heads to signify an apparent holy forgiveness of each of the men (and their snake, too.)
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* SweetAndSourGrapes: The convicts are hoping to get off the island, yet at the very end of the film - – when victory is within reach - – they decide that their lives are better spent in the relative security of the prison. As they head back to turn themselves in, halos appear above each of their heads to signify an apparent holy forgiveness of each of the men (and their snake, too.)
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* NiceHat: "When you're sixty, you'll wear a hat like that so men won't have to look at your face; not now, you have a ''nice'' face!"
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* MenOfSherwood: The local sheriff's department and border guard corner and wound Bobby (who easily shot through a bunch of prison guards in an earlier scene) and [[spoiler:finish him off with some help from the warden in a later scene after he escapes]], and only one deputy is wounded in either fight.
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* MultipleGunshotDeath: [[spoiler:The warden, the sheriff, and several deputies empty their guns into Bobby's chest during the climax.]]
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: In contrast to the warden, the sheriff is a competent but compassionate lawman. He takes the hunt for the escaped convicts seriously, but he's reluctant to harass the townspeople during the search and [[spoiler:allows a wounded Bobby to see a priest.]]
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* ChainedHeat: Jim and Ned are chained together with leg manacles prior to their escape from prison, although they quickly shoot through the chain under the cover of putting down an injured deer.
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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The movie begins the night of the jailbreak and ends two mornings later.
* FrenchJerk: French-Canadian, anyway. The French-speaking bishop is the most irritable and pompous clergyman in the movie.
* FrenchJerk: French-Canadian, anyway. The French-speaking bishop is the most irritable and pompous clergyman in the movie.
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* NeverGoingBackToPrison: Jim repeatedly says that he's not going back to the harsh prison they came from and Ned seems to feel the same way.
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* BigBadDuumvirate: The ruthless warden who wants to keep Ned and Jim from crossing the border and their AxCrazy fellow escaped convict Bobby are both prominent antagonists, although neither of them has too much screen time.
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* OffStageVillainy: Ned and Jim are escaped convicts who presumably did ''something'' to end up in jail, but nothing about their past crimes is mentioned, and they only commit a few petty crimes over the course of the film.
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* ChekhovsGun: Jimmy picks up a brochure for a gun in Harry's store and ends up using the flowery ad [[spoiler:as the opening of an impromptu sermon that he's forced to give in front of a crowd.]]
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* HelpingGrannyCrossTheStreet: Escaped convicts Ned and Jimmy insist on helping Mrs. Blair carry some groceries from the Canadian side of the border to provide themselves with an excuse to cross it. This gets foiled when the sheriff and his chief deputy insist on sending one of their men with her to save the two supposed priests the trouble.
* ImAManICantHelpIt: Downplayed. The chief deputy cheats on his wife with Molly the local prostitute whenever his duties take him away from his wife and near Molly's house for prolonged periods of time. He blames this on the "constant state of temptation", but clearly agonizes over it due to his religious beliefs and blames himself for dragging Molly into sinful activities rather than blaming her for enticing him into them. Molly finds the whole thing annoying (he apparently calls himself "filthy" and "swine" while they're having sex) and wishes that he'd just stop visiting her or stop making such a big deal about it.
* ImpersonationExclusiveCharacter: Renowned theologians Fr.'s Brown and Riley never arrive for the ceremony, for unexplained reasons, allowing Ned and Jimmy to impersonate them for the whole film.
* MadeOfIron: Bobby is shot in the stomach during his attempts to cross the border and the people on the scene are initially unsure whether he'll even survive long enough to be sent to the electric chair. Nonetheless, he recovers enough to break out of the jail cell he's placed in and try to cross the border a second time with little visible difficulty.
* ImAManICantHelpIt: Downplayed. The chief deputy cheats on his wife with Molly the local prostitute whenever his duties take him away from his wife and near Molly's house for prolonged periods of time. He blames this on the "constant state of temptation", but clearly agonizes over it due to his religious beliefs and blames himself for dragging Molly into sinful activities rather than blaming her for enticing him into them. Molly finds the whole thing annoying (he apparently calls himself "filthy" and "swine" while they're having sex) and wishes that he'd just stop visiting her or stop making such a big deal about it.
* ImpersonationExclusiveCharacter: Renowned theologians Fr.'s Brown and Riley never arrive for the ceremony, for unexplained reasons, allowing Ned and Jimmy to impersonate them for the whole film.
* MadeOfIron: Bobby is shot in the stomach during his attempts to cross the border and the people on the scene are initially unsure whether he'll even survive long enough to be sent to the electric chair. Nonetheless, he recovers enough to break out of the jail cell he's placed in and try to cross the border a second time with little visible difficulty.
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* NeverMessWithGranny: The elderly local Mrs. Blair pulls a shotgun on Ned and Jimmy when they first approach her on the side of the road.
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* SureLetsGoWithThat: When Jimmy introduces himself and Ned to Mrs. Blair with [[AsTheGoodBookSays a biblical quote about being kind to strangers]], she asks if they're priests in town for a major ceremony. Ned and Jimmy quickly say that they are.
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* NoNameGiven: Twenty-two of the thirty-two characters in the credits are unnnamed, including half of the first ten credited characters (the warden, the bishop's translator, a young monk, and the sheriff and deputy).
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* ActionPrologue: Within the first six or seven minutes, Bobby shoots his way out of the prison while dragging Ned and Jimmy along for the ride. The rest of the movie is noticeably less action-packed.
* MustHaveNicotine: Jimmy is very anxious for a cigarette after the escaped convicts reach a town.
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* RunForTheBorder: The escaped convicts break out of a New York prison and are trying to cross into Canada as cops patrol the border.
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* RightInFrontOfMe: Storekeeper Harry complains to Ned and Jimmy about how all of the priests in town aren't buying anything from his store, right before another local walks in and tells him that Ned and Jimmy are priests (actually, they're just impersonating priests), at which point Harry frantically apologizes.
* RunForTheBorder: The escaped convicts break out of a New York prison and are trying to cross into Canada as cops patrol the border. Unusually for the trope, the main characters ''reach'' the border very early on, but it's heavily guarded and something keeps stopping them whenever they think they've found a way to safely cross it.
* {{Sideboob}}: Ned gets a sideways view of the town's prostitute changing through a window and is pleased by the sight.
* SingleMomStripper: Molly works as a prostitute to take care of her deaf daughter (whose father is never mentioned).
* WardensAreEvil: The warden is a well-dressed, self-righteous man who whips two prisoners for talking during his speech. Although he does have some JerkassHasAPoint moments about how bad Bobby (who escapes with the two protagonists but travels separately from them) is.
* RunForTheBorder: The escaped convicts break out of a New York prison and are trying to cross into Canada as cops patrol the border. Unusually for the trope, the main characters ''reach'' the border very early on, but it's heavily guarded and something keeps stopping them whenever they think they've found a way to safely cross it.
* {{Sideboob}}: Ned gets a sideways view of the town's prostitute changing through a window and is pleased by the sight.
* SingleMomStripper: Molly works as a prostitute to take care of her deaf daughter (whose father is never mentioned).
* WardensAreEvil: The warden is a well-dressed, self-righteous man who whips two prisoners for talking during his speech. Although he does have some JerkassHasAPoint moments about how bad Bobby (who escapes with the two protagonists but travels separately from them) is.
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!! This The original 1955 film provides examples of:
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* BecomingTheMask: One of the convicts impersonating a priest decides to become a real priest.
* {{Confessional}}: The escaped convicts posing as priests hear confessions form the locals but are unprepared for this. When one man confesses to chewing on his wife, Ned [[ComicallyMissingThePoint tells him that it's no big deal as long as she doesn't know.]]
* NoNameGiven: Twenty-four of the thirty-two characters in the credits are named, including half of the first ten credited characters (the warden, the bishop's translator, a young monk, and the sheriff and deputy).
* RunForTheBorder: The escaped convicts break out of a New York prison and are trying to cross into Canada as cops patrol the border.
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Shortly before Christmas in 1895, unapologetic convicts Joseph (Bogart), Albert (Ray), and Jules (Ustinov) escape -- along with Albert's pet viper, Adolfe -- from the infamous Devil's Island prison in French Guiana. After dodging search parties, they seek refuge in the shop of Felix Ducotel (Leo G. Carroll), who is struggling to make ends meet under the overbearing supervision of his cousin Andre (Creator/BasilRathbone). Given the spirit of the Christmas season, the trio decide to assist Ducotel, his wife Amelie (Creator/JoanBennett), and their daughter Isabelle (Gloria Talbott) the only way they know how.
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Shortly before Christmas in 1895, unapologetic convicts Joseph (Bogart), Albert (Ray), and Jules (Ustinov) escape -- along with Albert's pet viper, Adolfe -- from the infamous Devil's Island prison in French Guiana. After dodging search parties, they seek refuge in the shop of Felix Ducotel (Leo G. Carroll), (Creator/LeoGCarroll), who is struggling to make ends meet under the overbearing supervision of his cousin Andre (Creator/BasilRathbone). Given the spirit of the Christmas season, the trio decide to assist Ducotel, his wife Amelie (Creator/JoanBennett), and their daughter Isabelle (Gloria Talbott) the only way they know how.
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Adapted from the stage production ''My Three Angels'' by Sam and Bella Spewack, itself based the French play ''La Cuisine des Anges''[[labelnote:†]]"The Kitchen of the Angels"[[/labelnote]] by Albert Husson. Loosely [[TheRemake remade]] as a 1989 film directed by Creator/NeilJordan, written by Creator/DavidMamet, and starring Creator/RobertDeNiro, Creator/SeanPenn, and Creator/DemiMoore. In this version, [[SettingUpdate the setting is changed]] to upstate New York during TheGreatDepression, and the escaped convicts (here reduced to a duo) [[BadHabits masquerade as priests]]. Despite earning moderate critical acclaim, the remake was a box-office flop.
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Adapted from the stage production ''My Three Angels'' by Sam and Bella Spewack, itself based the French play ''La Cuisine des Anges''[[labelnote:†]]"The Kitchen of the Angels"[[/labelnote]] by Albert Husson. Loosely [[TheRemake remade]] as a 1989 film directed by Creator/NeilJordan, written by Creator/DavidMamet, and starring Creator/RobertDeNiro, Creator/SeanPenn, and Creator/DemiMoore. In this version, [[SettingUpdate the setting is changed]] to upstate New York during TheGreatDepression, and the escaped convicts (here (now reduced to a duo) [[BadHabits masquerade as priests]]. Despite earning moderate critical acclaim, the remake was a box-office flop.
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Adapted from the stage production ''My Three Angels'' by Sam and Bella Spewack, itself based the French play ''La Cuisine des Anges''[[labelnote:†]]"The Kitchen of the Angels"[[/labelnote]] by Albert Husson. Loosely [[TheRemake remade]] as a 1989 film directed by Creator/NeilJordan, written by Creator/DavidMamet, and starring Creator/RobertDeNiro, Creator/SeanPenn, and Creator/DemiMoore. In this version, [[SettingUpdate the setting is changed]] to upstate New York during TheGreatDepression, and the escaped convicts (here reduced to a duo) [[BadHabits masquerade as Catholic priests]]. Despite earning moderate critical acclaim, the remake was a box-office flop.
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Adapted from the stage production ''My Three Angels'' by Sam and Bella Spewack, itself based the French play ''La Cuisine des Anges''[[labelnote:†]]"The Kitchen of the Angels"[[/labelnote]] by Albert Husson. Loosely [[TheRemake remade]] as a 1989 film directed by Creator/NeilJordan, written by Creator/DavidMamet, and starring Creator/RobertDeNiro, Creator/SeanPenn, and Creator/DemiMoore. In this version, [[SettingUpdate the setting is changed changed]] to upstate New York during TheGreatDepression, and the escaped convicts (here reduced to a duo) [[BadHabits masquerade as Catholic priests]]. Despite moderate critical acclaim, the remake was a box-office flop.
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