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| 3 | ''Public Hero #1'' is a 1935 crime drama film directed by J. Walter Ruben, starring Chester Morris, Creator/JeanArthur, and Creator/LionelBarrymore. |
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| 5 | Undercover G-man Jeff (Morris) infiltrates Sonny Black’s (Joseph Calleia) gang to dismantle it. But doing so becomes more complicated when he meets Sonny’s sister Terry (Arthur) and falls in love. |
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| 8 | !!This film shows the following tropes: |
| 9 | * TheAlcoholic: Dr. Glass (Barrymore) is always drunk and can only work on Sonny when he sobers up. |
| 10 | * BlackDudeDiesFirst: In a hideaway where Sonny stays, he kills the proprietor for not protecting him properly from being caught, leaving him to resort to running away when he’s extremely injured. |
| 11 | * BackAlleyDoctor: Dr. Glass is the doctor to the gangsters. |
| 12 | * DeadpanSnarker: Jeff and Terry have their moments. |
| 13 | * DrinkingOnDuty: Dr. Glass has to be sober in able to do his work, but he does sneak in several drinks while he does it. |
| 14 | * ContrivedCoincidence: Jeff bumps into Terry on a bus, and she happens to be Sonny’s sister. |
| 15 | * TheInfiltration: Jeff goes to jail, befriends Sonny, and escapes with him just to take him down. |
| 16 | * BecomingTheMask: Jeff has to do this to become a gangster. |
| 17 | * GreatEscape: Jeff and Sonny break out of jail together. |
| 18 | * EmbarrassingFirstName: Maria-Theresa is embarrassed by her name, mostly because it makes her Italian heritage obvious. |
| 19 | * InLoveWithTheGangstersGirl: The gangster’s sister, more specifically. Jeff falls for Terry, hard. |
| 20 | * KnightInSourArmor: Jeff has to put a tough front to fit into the Sonny gang, but Terry notices this front and calls him out on it. |
| 21 | * MagicPlasticSurgery: Averted: The plastic surgery seems to only have aged up Sonny. |
| 22 | * PoliceAreUseless: Jeff has to circumvent police regulations to be able to stop Sonny. |
| 23 | * TomboyishName: Terry hates her given name, Maria-Theresa. |
| 24 | * TheSyndicate: Sonny is the head of his gang |
| 25 | * NoGuyWantsToBeChased: Jeff fights off Theresa’s advances: however, since his trying to take down Sonny he doesn’t want to involve her in the mess. |
| 26 | * WouldHitAGirl: Sonny has no qualms hitting his own sister. |
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