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* AccidentalMisnaming: The colonel keeps calling Plumpick "Pumpernickel".
* {{Calvinball}}: The card game the asylum inhabitants is stated to not have any rules.
* {{Calvinball}}: The card game the asylum inhabitants is stated to not have any rules.
* IChooseToStay: After the adventure, Charles is to be redeployed in another town. Upon passing the asylum, he decides to admit himself.
* LineOfSightAlias: Charles, when first hiding in the Asylum from the Germans is faking playing cards and chooses "The King of Hearts" from the cards he has.
* LineOfSightAlias: Charles, when first hiding in the Asylum from the Germans is faking playing cards and chooses "The King of Hearts" from the cards he has.
* SpySpeak: "The mackerel likes frying." Is a code phrase transmitted to the Scottish regiment. However, "The Knight strikes at Midnight" means what it says (meaning that when the clocktower goes off, a knight pops out and will activate the bombs).
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* YoungFutureFamousPeople: A young Adolf Hitler is among the Germans and briefly appears at the beginning of the film.
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A 1966 French-Italian Comedy Drama directed by Creator/PhilippeDeBroca that has a British Private (Creator/AlanBates) being mistaken for a king by former insane asylum patients.
The movie also stars Creator/JacquesBalutin, Creator/DanielBoulanger, Creator/PierreBrasseur, Creator/JeanClaudeBrialy, Creator/GenevieveBujold, Creator/PierPaoloCapponi, and Creator/AdolfoCeli.
It was released on December 21, 1966.
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!Tropes for the film:
* ClockTower: Charles Plumpick realizes at the last minute that the bomb the retreating German army planted that would blow up the village is triggered by a clockwork figure in the lower striking a bell.
* EccentricTownsfolk: The inhabitants of the town are escaped patients from the local mental institution.
* GoAmongMadPeople: The madmen become the sane people in the abandoned, war-torn town.
* LoonWithAHeartOfGold: A whole asylum is full of these types, who take over a town that the Germans (the setting is UsefulNotes/WorldWarI) has booby-trapped (the locals fled without bothering to evacuate them). Charles Plumpick of the Signal Corps comes to find and defuse the bomb, not knowing they aren't regular townsfolk. Bittersweet hilarity ensues.
* ManInAKilt: Plumpick wears a kilt as the uniform of his regiment - the ladies in the village brothel find it appealing.
* OnlySaneMan: Private Charles Plumpick is ''literally'' the only sane man in the French town of Marville, due to it having been evacuated by the regular citizenry before being repopulated by escaped denizens of the local insane asylum.
* {{Tagline}}: "De Broca's Crowning Triumph!".
* UnproblematicProstitution: The inmates of an abandoned insane asylum find their way into a deserted village in World War I France, and set up business there, including a bordello that feels like a pleasant social club.
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The movie also stars Creator/JacquesBalutin, Creator/DanielBoulanger, Creator/PierreBrasseur, Creator/JeanClaudeBrialy, Creator/GenevieveBujold, Creator/PierPaoloCapponi, and Creator/AdolfoCeli.
It was released on December 21, 1966.
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!Tropes for the film:
* ClockTower: Charles Plumpick realizes at the last minute that the bomb the retreating German army planted that would blow up the village is triggered by a clockwork figure in the lower striking a bell.
* EccentricTownsfolk: The inhabitants of the town are escaped patients from the local mental institution.
* GoAmongMadPeople: The madmen become the sane people in the abandoned, war-torn town.
* LoonWithAHeartOfGold: A whole asylum is full of these types, who take over a town that the Germans (the setting is UsefulNotes/WorldWarI) has booby-trapped (the locals fled without bothering to evacuate them). Charles Plumpick of the Signal Corps comes to find and defuse the bomb, not knowing they aren't regular townsfolk. Bittersweet hilarity ensues.
* ManInAKilt: Plumpick wears a kilt as the uniform of his regiment - the ladies in the village brothel find it appealing.
* OnlySaneMan: Private Charles Plumpick is ''literally'' the only sane man in the French town of Marville, due to it having been evacuated by the regular citizenry before being repopulated by escaped denizens of the local insane asylum.
* {{Tagline}}: "De Broca's Crowning Triumph!".
* UnproblematicProstitution: The inmates of an abandoned insane asylum find their way into a deserted village in World War I France, and set up business there, including a bordello that feels like a pleasant social club.
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