This still frame from the untouchables (1987) shows a furious looking man pulling out a tommy gun from inside his jacket. The film is based on the crime family of al capone and this character has a suprised/frightened look on his face suggesting he is about to shoot someone who could be aiming a gun at him in a attempt to defend himself. In the top right of the frame you can see a film poster and behind the character is doors so hes likely to be outside a cinema. This character is likely to be a gangster based on the suit he is wearing probaly earned out criminal pay and also because he has a plaster on his nose suggesting he got into a fight being the criminal he is.
He pulls out a tommy gun from underneath his coat suggesting that it was well hidden and easy to carry weapons around public places like cinema without being noticed. The tommy gun itself is a very iconic weapon of the 1920s gangsters in america and straight away implies the man holding it is likely to be gangster. The fact that one second he looks like a ordinary citizen at the time then he suddenly pulls out a gun suggests that almost anyone could be a gangster creating much suspicion.
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