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6 | [[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/HighSign_9397.jpg]] |
7 | [[caption-width-right:320:Subtle, guys.]] |
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9 | ->''Guarding a man from danger and killing him at the same time is SOME job.'' |
10 | -->-- '''Intertitle''' |
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12 | "The High Sign" (1921) follows a drifter (Creator/BusterKeaton) whose audition a shooting gallery leads to his recruitment as both a hit man and the bodyguard of the intended victim. HilarityEnsues. |
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14 | !!"The High Sign" provides examples of: |
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16 | * AccidentalAimingSkills: Arguably. Buster can shoot a bottle off a wall -- just never the one he's aiming at. |
17 | * AlliterativeName: The Blinking Buzzards |
18 | -->...a bold bad bunch of blood-thirsty bandits who would break into a bank, blow a battle-ship to bits or beat up a blue-eyed baby blonde. |
19 | %%* AsideGlance |
20 | * BallisticDiscount: A shooting gallery customer holds Buster at gunpoint and makes off with the profits. |
21 | * BananaPeel -- first averted, then immediately done straight. |
22 | * {{Blackmail}}: Extortion, actually, but there's no page for that. |
23 | %%* BodyguardBetrayal: Subverted. |
24 | %%* BookcasePassage |
25 | %%* BrickJoke: The banana in the gun holster. |
26 | %%* TheButlerDidIt |
27 | %%* ContractOnTheHitman |
28 | %%* TheDoorSlamsYou |
29 | %%* TheDulcineaEffect |
30 | %%* ExplosiveCigar |
31 | * FailedASpotCheck: Buster and the Nickelnursers don't notice the Blinking Buzzards entering the house. |
32 | %%* FakingTheDead |
33 | * FiveFingerDiscount: How Buster acquires a newspaper and a revolver. |
34 | %%* GunTwirling |
35 | %%* TheGunslinger: Subverted. |
36 | * {{Hobos}}: Buster, presumably, since he makes his entrance being thrown off a train. |
37 | * {{Irony}}: The man whose newspaper Buster stole unknowingly buys it back from him. |
38 | * ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Buster, at least initially. |
39 | * ImpossiblyCompactFolding: As Buster unfolds the newspaper, it just keeps unfolding until it's roughly the size of a bedsheet. As he tries to fold it up again, he has to stand on a bench to do so and quickly loses his balance. |
40 | * ImprobableAimingSkills: Subverted ''and'' played straight -- Buster has to fake amazing marksmanship at the shooting gallery, but manages to toss his hat onto a rack in the next room without looking. |
41 | * LargeAndInCharge: See picture. (Buster reportedly stood 5-1/2 feet tall). |
42 | %%* LiteralAssKicking |
43 | * MagicBullets: Or in this case, magic pellets -- one shooting gallery customer uses his own double-barreled shotgun and wipes out ''the entire gallery'' with ''one shot.'' |
44 | %%* NeonSignHideout: See picture. |
45 | * NoseTapping: The Blinking Buzzards' "secret" signal. |
46 | * PaintedTunnelRealTrain |
47 | ** Buster appears to paint a hook on the wall and then hang his hat upon it. |
48 | ** Buster dives through a seascape that conceals a secret passage. |
49 | %%* PaperThinDisguise |
50 | %%* PlayingBothSides |
51 | * PortraitPaintingPeephole: The entrance to the Blinking Buzzards' headquarters. |
52 | * PunnyName |
53 | ** "Dr. Pullem, Dentist" |
54 | ** August Nickelnurser, an elderly miser. |
55 | %%* ShotInTheAss |
56 | %%* {{Slapstick}} |
57 | %%* TrapDoor |
58 | %%* {{Undercrank}} |
59 | * VisualPun: After sipping some spiked or poisoned tea, Buster looks into the cup and sees a kicking mule. So, a drink with some kick. |
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