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* BigWhat: Roderick when Gwendolyn exclaims she is in love with Giacomo (Hawkins). Hawkins has an ExplainExplainOhCrap moments later as he realises he's in big trouble despite having no memory of what happened.
* DumbMuscle: Griswold is described as this by Gwendolyn. She calls him " a brute and a lout". Ravenhurst calls him uncouth in the same scene, to which Roderick agrees, but says he is also strong. Strong enough, as we see later, to punch a hole through a shield.
** The Captain of the Guard is confident that he has seen Hawkins before, as he first realises when he sees Hawkins as Giacomo. [[spoiler:When Ravenhurst suspects that Hawkins is The Black Fox, he points out no one would want the alliance with Griswold destroyed more than that "rabble in the forest". This comment leads the Captain of the Guard to one of these, as he realises he saw Hawkins dressed as an old man with the wine cart, and that Jean was with him.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Roderick has Gwendolyn, his daughter, although [[OffingTheOffspring he threatens to have her killed]] if she steps out of line and refuses to marry Griswold.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Roderick has Gwendolyn, his daughter, although [[OffingTheOffspring he threatens to have her killed]] if she steps out of line and refuses to marry Griswold.
* NeckSnap: Roderick threatens to have Gwendolyn killed with one of these if she steps out of line: "Daughter or not, princess or not, one move, one false move, and your neck will snap like a twig!" Accentuated by a snap of the fingers to unknowingly bring Hawkins back under Griselda's spell and reveal himself as Roderick leaves.
* NoNameGiven: The Captain of the Guard, first seen in the opening scene ("'The child lives. Death to the tyrant! The Black Fox'!") and is the most suspicious of Hawkins, as he correctly suspects he has seen Hawkins before.
* NumberTwo: Ravenhurst is this to Roderick. Brockhurst knows that Ravenhurst opposes the alliance with Griswold because it could potentially lose him this position.
* NoNameGiven: The Captain of the Guard, first seen in the opening scene ("'The child lives. Death to the tyrant! The Black Fox'!") and is the most suspicious of Hawkins, as he correctly suspects he has seen Hawkins before.
* NumberTwo: Ravenhurst is this to Roderick. Brockhurst knows that Ravenhurst opposes the alliance with Griswold because it could potentially lose him this position.
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** Hawkins again when Griswold arrives at the castle and Gwendolyn proclaims her love for him (Hawkins). As Hawkins doesn't remember what happened and is just singing along to whatever's said, he has one in mid-sentence.
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** Hawkins again when Griswold arrives at the castle and Gwendolyn proclaims her love for him (Hawkins). As Hawkins doesn't remember what happened and is just singing along to whatever's said, [[ExplainExplainOhCrap he has one in mid-sentence.mid-sentence]].
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Gwendolyn expresses a desire to do this, wanting to flee the castle so she can escape from under Roderick's thumb. When Hawkins seduces her while hypnotised, she decides to run away with him that night. When she publicly expresses her love for him that evening in front of everybody (including Roderick) the plan is scuppered when Hawkins is imprisoned.
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* HesDeadJim: Somebody quickly confirms the death of Brockhurst, Finsdale and Pertwee who were poisoned by Grizelda.
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* HesDeadJim: Somebody quickly confirms the death of Brockhurst, Finsdale and Pertwee who were poisoned by Grizelda.Griselda.
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* OffingTheOffspring: After findign Gwendolyn with the key to the secret passage, Roderick warns her that if she steps out of line and does anything to prevent her arranged marriage to Griswold, he will sentence her to death.
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* OffingTheOffspring: After findign finding Gwendolyn with the key to the secret passage, Roderick warns her that if she steps out of line and does anything to prevent her arranged marriage to Griswold, he will sentence her to death.
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* ShadowDiscretionShot: Hawkins is reluctant to knock out the real Giacomo with a login the woodman's hut, so Jean does this honors, and we see it happen [[ShadowDiscretionShot as shadows on the wall]].
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* ShadowDiscretionShot: Hawkins is reluctant to knock out the real Giacomo with a login log in the woodman's hut, so Jean does this honors, and we see it happen [[ShadowDiscretionShot as shadows on the wall]].
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* CleanCut: Hawkins slashes a set of candles, apparently to no effect, and Ravenhurst laughs at him. Then he ''blows'' on the candles, and they fall apart. This is another ActorAllusion, as well, as Tyrone Power had pulled a similar, if less exaggerated, bit of swordplay on Basil Rathbone's Captain Esteban in 1940's ''Film/TheMarkOfZorro.''
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* CleanCut: Hawkins slashes a set of candles, apparently to no effect, and Ravenhurst laughs at him. Then he ''blows'' on the candles, and they fall apart. This is another ActorAllusion, as well, as Tyrone Power had pulled a similar, if less exaggerated, bit of swordplay on Basil Rathbone's Captain Esteban in 1940's ''Film/TheMarkOfZorro.''Film/{{The Mark of Zorro|1940}}.''
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Brockhurst mentions early on that Ravenhurst likely fears losing his position as the king's advisor because of the alliance he (Brockhurst), Finsdale and Pertwee want Roderick to make with Griswold. Ravenhurst yells at him that he will die for that, to which Brockhurst replies, "One of us will!", before engaging in a brief sword fight. Ravenhurst later conspires to have Brockhurst, Finsdale and Pertwee killed off to prevent the alliance from going ahead.
** The "Outfox Thwe Fox" number at the start makes it out that Hawkins is the Black Fox. [[spoiler:He ends up getting mistaken for the Black Fox by Ravenhurst and his associates and they conspire to use him to try and get rid of Griswold.]]
** The "Outfox Thwe Fox" number at the start makes it out that Hawkins is the Black Fox. [[spoiler:He ends up getting mistaken for the Black Fox by Ravenhurst and his associates and they conspire to use him to try and get rid of Griswold.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Brockhurst mentions early on that Ravenhurst likely fears losing his position as the king's advisor because of the alliance he (Brockhurst), Finsdale and Pertwee want Roderick to make with Griswold. Ravenhurst yells at him that he will die for that, to which Brockhurst replies, "One of us will!", before engaging in a brief sword fight. Ravenhurst later conspires to have Brockhurst, Finsdale and Pertwee killed off to prevent the alliance from going ahead.
** The "OutfoxThwe The Fox" number at the start makes it out that Hawkins is the Black Fox. [[spoiler:He ends up getting mistaken for the Black Fox by Ravenhurst and his associates and they conspire to use him to try and get rid of Griswold.]]
** Brockhurst mentions early on that Ravenhurst likely fears losing his position as the king's advisor because of the alliance he (Brockhurst), Finsdale and Pertwee want Roderick to make with Griswold. Ravenhurst yells at him that he will die for that, to which Brockhurst replies, "One of us will!", before engaging in a brief sword fight. Ravenhurst later conspires to have Brockhurst, Finsdale and Pertwee killed off to prevent the alliance from going ahead.
** The "Outfox
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** The "Outfox Thwe Fox" number at the start makes it out that Hawkins is the Black Fox. [[spoiler:He ends up getting mistaken for the Black Fox by Ravenhurst and his associates and they conspire to use him to try and get rid of Griswold.]]
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* ChekhovsSkill: Hawkins's entertaining skills from the carnival come in very hand when he has to pose as Giacomo, making his appearance as a jester pretty convincing.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Hawkins's entertaining skills from the carnival come in very hand handy when he has to pose as Giacomo, making his appearance as a jester pretty convincing.
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* BaitAndSwitch: It looks initially like Hawkins himself is the Black Fox in the "Outfox The Fox" number", but once the number ends, the real Black Fox appears, Hawkins having been dressing in his clothes. [[spoiler:This also likely forehsadows how Hawkins will be mistaken for the Black Fox later by Ravenhurst and his cronies.]]
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* ButtMonkey: Fergus. He sneaks into the castle before the film starts, but only gets duties as an hostler, so they have to send someone else o the castle after him. He's ignored by everybody, including Hawkins and Jean a few times, while listening to him could have ended the film in about five minutes, and saved many lives, including his own. He does manage to get through to Jean by telling her his plan to send the key to the secret passage to the Black Fox is better than hers, but he's caught in the act by Ravenhurst and his henchmen and tortured to death (thankfully offscreen).
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* ButtMonkey: Fergus. He sneaks into the castle before the film starts, but only gets duties as an hostler, so they have to send someone else o into the castle after him. He's ignored by everybody, including Hawkins and Jean a few times, while listening to him could have ended the film in about five minutes, and saved many lives, including his own. He does manage to get through to Jean by telling her his plan to send the key to the secret passage to the Black Fox is better than hers, but he's caught in the act by Ravenhurst and his henchmen and tortured to death (thankfully offscreen).
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Ravenhurst, Brockhurst, Finsdale and Pertwee's outfits in the scenes they appear. Ravenhurst tends to dress in black and purple, Brockhurst in yellow, Finsdale in green, and Pertwee in blue.
* DarkIsEvil: Ravenhurst dresses in dark outfits in every scene he appears in.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The Black Fox, the leader of the group in the forest looking after the infant king and true heir to the throne.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The Black Fox, the leader of the group in the forest looking after the infant king and true heir to the throne.
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* EvilChancellor: Ravenhurst isn't quite outright planning to overthrow the kingdom, but he certain makes plans that help his position. Even Roderick knows Ravenhurst isn't fully to be trusted.
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* EvilChancellor: Ravenhurst isn't quite outright planning to overthrow the kingdom, but he certain certainly makes plans that help his position. Even Roderick knows Ravenhurst isn't fully to be trusted.
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* FailedASpotCheck: Because everybody was busy applauding Hawkins after singing "The Maladjusted Jester", no one noticed Griselda slipping pellets of poison into the goblets intended for Brockhurst, Finsdale and Pertwee, not even the attendant holding them.
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* PetTheDog: At the request of Hawkins (under hypnosis at the time), Ravenhurst agrees to order flowers for the widows of Brockhurst, Finsdale and Pertwee after they are killed.
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This 1956 musical-comedy {{Farce}}, written and directed by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank and starring Creator/DannyKaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Creator/AngelaLansbury, Cecil Parker, Mildred Natwick, and Creator/JohnCarradine, has been a CultClassic on TV for years, mercilessly mocking the conventions of [[TheMiddleAges medieval]] {{Swashbuckler}} films of the 1930s through the '50s. A lot of it is thanks to the talent of Danny Kaye, who is about as unlikely an adventure hero as you could get, and the film makes sure to milk every drop of that.
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This 1956 musical-comedy {{Farce}}, written and directed by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank and starring Creator/DannyKaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Creator/BasilRathbone, Creator/AngelaLansbury, Cecil Parker, Mildred Natwick, and Creator/JohnCarradine, has been a CultClassic on TV for years, mercilessly mocking the conventions of [[TheMiddleAges medieval]] {{Swashbuckler}} films of the 1930s through the '50s. A lot of it is thanks to the talent of Danny Kaye, who is about as unlikely an adventure hero as you could get, and the film makes sure to milk every drop of that.
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* AnswerCut: Jane wonders how they could get somebody inside the castle close to the king with access to his chamber. Cue Giacomo entering the shack.
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* AnswerCut: Jane Jean wonders how they could get somebody inside the castle close to the king with access to his chamber. Cue Giacomo entering the shack.
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* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Jean and Hawkins spend the night in the woodman's hut, though nothing intimate happens.
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This 1955 1956 musical-comedy {{Farce}}, written and directed by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank and starring Creator/DannyKaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Creator/AngelaLansbury, Cecil Parker, Mildred Natwick, and Creator/JohnCarradine, has been a CultClassic on TV for years, mercilessly mocking the conventions of [[TheMiddleAges medieval]] {{Swashbuckler}} films of the 1930s through the '50s. A lot of it is thanks to the talent of Danny Kaye, who is about as unlikely an adventure hero as you could get, and the film makes sure to milk every drop of that.
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[[quoteright:270:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/court_jester.jpg]]
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This 1955 comedic {{Farce}}, written and directed by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank and starring Creator/DannyKaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Creator/AngelaLansbury, Cecil Parker, Mildred Natwick, and Creator/JohnCarradine, has been a CultClassic on TV for years, mercilessly mocking the conventions of [[TheMiddleAges medieval]] {{Swashbuckler}} films of the 1930s through the '50s. A lot of it is thanks to the talent of Danny Kaye, who is about as unlikely an adventure hero as you could get, and the film makes sure to milk every drop of that.
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This 1955 comedic musical-comedy {{Farce}}, written and directed by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank and starring Creator/DannyKaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Creator/AngelaLansbury, Cecil Parker, Mildred Natwick, and Creator/JohnCarradine, has been a CultClassic on TV for years, mercilessly mocking the conventions of [[TheMiddleAges medieval]] {{Swashbuckler}} films of the 1930s through the '50s. A lot of it is thanks to the talent of Danny Kaye, who is about as unlikely an adventure hero as you could get, and the film makes sure to milk every drop of that.
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''The Court Jester'' is a 1955 Creator/{{Paramount}} {{Farce}} comedy film, written and directed by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, and starring Creator/DannyKaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Creator/AngelaLansbury, Cecil Parker, Mildred Natwick, and JohnCarradine, has been a {{Comedy}} CultClassic on TV for years, mercilessly mocking the conventions of [[TheMiddleAges medieval]] {{Swashbuckler}} films of the 1930s through the 1950s. A lot of it is thanks to the talent of Creator/DannyKaye, who is about as unlikely an adventure hero as you could get, and the film makes sure to milk every drop of that.
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* WhosOnFirst: When Hubert Hawkins tells King Roderick the narrative of the Duke, the Doge, and the Duchess:
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* WhosOnFirst: A couple. [[note]]
** When Hubert Hawkins tells King Roderick the narrative of the Duke, the Doge, and theDuchess:Duchess.
** When Hubert Hawkins tells King Roderick the narrative of the Duke, the Doge, and the
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** And HilarityEnsues when Hawkins is trying to sort out the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace, and the flagon with the dragon:
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** And HilarityEnsues when Hawkins is trying to sort out the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace, and the flagon with the dragon:dragon.
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** Later on:
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** Later And later on:
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-->'''Griselda''': Just remember that.
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* WhosOnFirst: When Hubert Hawkins tells King Roderick the narrative of the Duke, the Doge, and the Duchess:
-->'''King Roderick''': The Duke. What did the Duke do?
-->'''Hubert''': Eh... the Duke?
-->'''King Roderick''':Yes. And what about the Doge?
-->'''Hubert''': Oh, the Doge!
-->'''King Roderick''': Eh, well, what did the Doge do?
-->'''Hubert''': The Doge do?
-->'''King Roderick''': Yes, the Doge do.
-->'''Hubert''': Well, uh, the Doge did what the Doge does. Eh, uh, when the Doge does his duty to the Duke, that is.
-->'''King Roderick''': What? What's that?
-->'''Hubert''': Oh, it's very simple, sire: When the Doge did his duty and the Duke didn't, that's when the Duchess did the dirt to the Duke with the Doge.
-->'''King Roderick''': Who did what to what?
-->'''Hubert''': Oh, they all did, sire. There they were in the dark; the Duke with his dagger, the Doge with his dart, Duchess with her dirk.
-->'''King Roderick''': Duchess with her dirk?
-->'''Hubert''': Yes! The Duchess dove at the Duke just when the Duke dove at the Doge. Now the Duke ducked, the Doge dodged, and the Duchess didn't. So the Duke got the Duchess, the Duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke!
-->'''King Roderick''': Curious. I... I... hm? What? What's that? All I heard was that the Duchess had a siege of rheumatism. She's 83, you know.
** And HilarityEnsues when Hawkins is trying to sort out the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace, and the flagon with the dragon:
-->'''Griselda''': Listen. I have put a pellet of poison in one of the vessels.
-->'''Hawkins''': Which one?
-->'''Griselda''': The one with the figure of a pestle.
-->'''Hawkins''': The vessel with the pestle?
-->'''Griselda''': Yes. But you don't want the vessel with the pestle, you want the chalice from the palace!
-->'''Hawkins''': I don't want the vessel with the pestle, I want the chalice from... the what?
-->'''Jean''': The chalice from the palace!
-->'''Hawkins''': Hmm?
-->'''Griselda''': It's a little crystal chalice with a figure of a palace.
-->'''Hawkins''': The chalice from the palace has the pellet with the poison?
-->'''Griselda''': No, the pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle.
-->'''Hawkins''': Oh, oh, the pestle with the vessel.
-->'''Jean''': The vessel with the pestle.
-->'''Hawkins''': What about the palace from the chalice?
-->'''Griselda''': Not the palace from the chalice! The chalice from the palace!
-->'''Hawkins''': Where's the pellet with the poison?
-->'''Griselda''': In the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
-->'''Jean''': Don't you see? The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle.
-->'''Griselda''': The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!
-->'''Jean''': It's so easy, I can say it.
-->'''Hawkins''': Well then you fight him!
-->'''Griselda''': Listen carefully: The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
-->'''Hawkins''': The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
** Later on:
-->'''Hawkins''': I've got it! I've got it! The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! Right?
-->'''Griselda''': Right. But there's been a change: they broke the chalice from the palace!
-->'''Hawkins''': They broke the chalice from the palace?
-->'''Griselda''': And replaced it with a flagon.
-->'''Hawkins''': A flagon?
-->'''Griselda''': With the figure of a dragon.
-->'''Hawkins''': Flagon with a dragon.
-->'''Griselda''': Right.
-->'''Hawkins''': But did you put the pellet with the poison in the vessel with the pestle?
-->'''Griselda''': No! The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon! The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true!
-->'''Hawkins''': The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon; the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.
-->'''Griselda''': Just remember that.
-->'''King Roderick''': The Duke. What did the Duke do?
-->'''Hubert''': Eh... the Duke?
-->'''King Roderick''':Yes. And what about the Doge?
-->'''Hubert''': Oh, the Doge!
-->'''King Roderick''': Eh, well, what did the Doge do?
-->'''Hubert''': The Doge do?
-->'''King Roderick''': Yes, the Doge do.
-->'''Hubert''': Well, uh, the Doge did what the Doge does. Eh, uh, when the Doge does his duty to the Duke, that is.
-->'''King Roderick''': What? What's that?
-->'''Hubert''': Oh, it's very simple, sire: When the Doge did his duty and the Duke didn't, that's when the Duchess did the dirt to the Duke with the Doge.
-->'''King Roderick''': Who did what to what?
-->'''Hubert''': Oh, they all did, sire. There they were in the dark; the Duke with his dagger, the Doge with his dart, Duchess with her dirk.
-->'''King Roderick''': Duchess with her dirk?
-->'''Hubert''': Yes! The Duchess dove at the Duke just when the Duke dove at the Doge. Now the Duke ducked, the Doge dodged, and the Duchess didn't. So the Duke got the Duchess, the Duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke!
-->'''King Roderick''': Curious. I... I... hm? What? What's that? All I heard was that the Duchess had a siege of rheumatism. She's 83, you know.
** And HilarityEnsues when Hawkins is trying to sort out the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace, and the flagon with the dragon:
-->'''Griselda''': Listen. I have put a pellet of poison in one of the vessels.
-->'''Hawkins''': Which one?
-->'''Griselda''': The one with the figure of a pestle.
-->'''Hawkins''': The vessel with the pestle?
-->'''Griselda''': Yes. But you don't want the vessel with the pestle, you want the chalice from the palace!
-->'''Hawkins''': I don't want the vessel with the pestle, I want the chalice from... the what?
-->'''Jean''': The chalice from the palace!
-->'''Hawkins''': Hmm?
-->'''Griselda''': It's a little crystal chalice with a figure of a palace.
-->'''Hawkins''': The chalice from the palace has the pellet with the poison?
-->'''Griselda''': No, the pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle.
-->'''Hawkins''': Oh, oh, the pestle with the vessel.
-->'''Jean''': The vessel with the pestle.
-->'''Hawkins''': What about the palace from the chalice?
-->'''Griselda''': Not the palace from the chalice! The chalice from the palace!
-->'''Hawkins''': Where's the pellet with the poison?
-->'''Griselda''': In the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
-->'''Jean''': Don't you see? The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle.
-->'''Griselda''': The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!
-->'''Jean''': It's so easy, I can say it.
-->'''Hawkins''': Well then you fight him!
-->'''Griselda''': Listen carefully: The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
-->'''Hawkins''': The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
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-->'''Hawkins''': I've got it! I've got it! The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! Right?
-->'''Griselda''': Right. But there's been a change: they broke the chalice from the palace!
-->'''Hawkins''': They broke the chalice from the palace?
-->'''Griselda''': And replaced it with a flagon.
-->'''Hawkins''': A flagon?
-->'''Griselda''': With the figure of a dragon.
-->'''Hawkins''': Flagon with a dragon.
-->'''Griselda''': Right.
-->'''Hawkins''': But did you put the pellet with the poison in the vessel with the pestle?
-->'''Griselda''': No! The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon! The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true!
-->'''Hawkins''': The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon; the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.
-->'''Griselda''': Just remember that.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never find out what happened to the real Giacomo after Maid Jean knocked him out.
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* AChildShallLeadThem: The surviving true royal is an infant. No regent is named at the end of the film though.
* AChildShallLeadThem: The surviving true royal is an infant. No regent is named at the end of the film though.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Roderick, who had the entire royal family killed so he could usurp the throne for himself, wants to kill the last remaining heir to the throne, and intends to force Gwendolyn into an ArrangedMarriage she wants no part of for reasons that benefit himself, and even threatens her with death if she steps out of line.
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** Roderick, who had the entire royal family killed so he could usurp the throne for himself, wants to kill the last remaining heir to the throne, and intends to force Gwendolyn into an ArrangedMarriage she wants no part of for reasons that benefit himself, and even threatens her with death if she steps out of line.
** Roderick, who had the entire royal family killed so he could usurp the throne for himself, wants to kill the last remaining heir to the throne, and intends to force Gwendolyn into an ArrangedMarriage she wants no part of for reasons that benefit himself, and even threatens her with death if she steps out of line.
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* NoYou: This exchange between Roderick and Gwendolyn at the beginning:
-->'''Roderick''': I am the king. If it pleases me, you will marry Griswold.
-->'''Gwendolyn''': If it pleases you so much, ''you'' [[WhyDontYouMarryIt marry Griswold]].
-->'''Roderick''': I am the king. If it pleases me, you will marry Griswold.
-->'''Gwendolyn''': If it pleases you so much, ''you'' [[WhyDontYouMarryIt marry Griswold]].
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-->'''Roderick''': I am the king. If it pleases me, you will marry Griswold.
-->'''Gwendolyn''': If it pleases you so much, ''you'' marry Griswold.
-->'''Roderick''': I am the king. If it pleases me, you will marry Griswold.
-->'''Gwendolyn''': If it pleases you so much, ''you'' marry Griswold.
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* ChekhovsArmy: [[spoiler:Hawkins's dwarf friends, seen during the "Outfox The Fox" number at the start of the film. [[spoiler:When Jean finally gets the key to the Black Fox, the tunnel collapses, rendering it unusable except for a small crawlspace, giving the Black Fox the [[EurekaMoment idea]] to use Hawkins's dwarf friends from the carnival to use the passage to enter the castle, while he leads the others to attack from the outside.]]
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* ChekhovsArmy: [[spoiler:Hawkins's dwarf friends, seen during the "Outfox The Fox" number at the start of the film. [[spoiler:When When Jean finally gets the key to the Black Fox, the tunnel collapses, rendering it unusable except for a small crawlspace, giving the Black Fox the [[EurekaMoment idea]] to use Hawkins's dwarf friends from the carnival to use the passage to enter the castle, while he leads the others to attack from the outside.]]
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* VictoriasSecretCompartment: Both Gwendolyn and Jean store the key in their secret departments at different times during the movie.
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->'''Giacomo:''' "King of Jesters..." [[CatchphraseInterruptus (gets hit on the head, falls unconscious)]]\\
'''Maid Jean:''' (points to Hawkins, indicating that he'll take Giacomo's place) "And jester to the king!"
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->'''Giacomo:''' "King of Jesters..." [[CatchphraseInterruptus (gets hit on the head, falls unconscious)]]\\
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'''Maid Jean:''' (points to Hawkins, indicating that he'll take Giacomo's place) "And jester
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* SupportingProtagonist: Hawkins wants to be a hero, but he's mainly just thrown around in the events of the film.
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-->''" A toast! A toast! A toast to his most royal highness! To Roderick the first, for all that he has done for this great England of ours, may Providence provide a true and just reward! To the king!"''
-->''" A toast! A toast! A toast to his most royal highness! To Roderick the first, for all that he has done for this great England of ours, may Providence provide a true and just reward! To the king!"''
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* StealthInsult: Hawkins, toasting the usurper king:
-->"A toast to his most royal highness! To Roderick the first, for all that he has done for this great England of ours, may providence provide a true and just reward!"
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''The Court Jester'' is a 1955 Creator/{{Paramount}} {{Farce}} comedy film, written and directed by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, and starring Creator/DannyKaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Creator/AngelaLansbury, Cecil Parker, Mildred Natwick, and JohnCarradine, has been a {{Comedy}} CultClassic on TV for years, mercilessly mocking the conventions of [[TheMiddleAges medieval]] {{Swashbuckler}} films of the 1930s through the 1950s. A lot of it is thanks to the talent of Creator/DannyKaye, who is about as unlikely an adventure hero as you could get, and the film makes sure to milk every drop of that.
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This 1955 Creator/{{Paramount}} film, written and directed by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, and starring Creator/DannyKaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Creator/AngelaLansbury, Cecil Parker, Mildred Natwick, and JohnCarradine, has been a {{Comedy}} CultClassic on TV for years, mercilessly mocking the conventions of [[TheMiddleAges medieval]] {{Swashbuckler}} films of the 1930s through the 1950s. A lot of it is thanks to the talent of Creator/DannyKaye, who is about as unlikely an adventure hero as you could get, and the film makes sure to milk every drop of that.
It flopped when it came out, but was later a hit on TV. Now it's on the American Film Institute's list of "100 Years... 100 Laughs," and preserved in the United States UsefulNotes/NationalFilmRegistry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
It flopped when it came out, but was later a hit on TV. Now it's on the American Film Institute's list of "100 Years... 100 Laughs," and preserved in the United States UsefulNotes/NationalFilmRegistry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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* BumblingDad: Kind of, in that Hawkins is actually a more than competent foster father to the young king (in fact, he's the most competent parental type in the whole movie), but he's bumbling at pretty much everything else.
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* ChekhovsArmy: [[spoiler:Hawkins's dwarf friends, seen during the "Outfox The Fox" number at the start of the film. The Black Fox enlists their help in storming the castle at the end.]]
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* ChekhovsArmy: [[spoiler:Hawkins's dwarf friends, seen during the "Outfox The Fox" number at the start of the film. The [[spoiler:When Jean finally gets the key to the Black Fox, the tunnel collapses, rendering it unusable except for a small crawlspace, giving the Black Fox enlists their help in storming the castle at [[EurekaMoment idea]] to use Hawkins's dwarf friends from the end.carnival to use the passage to enter the castle, while he leads the others to attack from the outside.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: The key to the secret passage, and the secret passage itself. [[spoiler:When Jean finally gets the key to the Black Fox, the tunnel collapses, rendering it unusable except for a small crawlspace, giving the Black Fox the [[EurekaMoment idea]] to use [[ChekhovsArmy Hawkins's dwarf friends from the carnival]] to use the passage to enter the castle, while he leads the others to attack from the outside.]]
** Griselda hypnotising Hawkins. She first does it to him to get him to woo Gwendolyn and save her own life, then does it to him again at the end to protect him in his sword fight with Ravenhurst.
** A TotemPoleTrench. It's first done with Hawkins's dwarf friends a few times in the forest at the start of the film. [[spoiler:It's done again at the start of the climax to free Hawkins and Jean and let them know that Hawkins's dwarf friends are about to attack.]]
** Griselda hypnotising Hawkins. She first does it to him to get him to woo Gwendolyn and save her own life, then does it to him again at the end to protect him in his sword fight with Ravenhurst.
** A TotemPoleTrench. It's first done with Hawkins's dwarf friends a few times in the forest at the start of the film. [[spoiler:It's done again at the start of the climax to free Hawkins and Jean and let them know that Hawkins's dwarf friends are about to attack.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: The key to the secret passage, and the secret passage itself. [[spoiler:When Jean finally gets the key to the Black Fox, the tunnel collapses, rendering it unusable except for a small crawlspace, giving the Black Fox the [[EurekaMoment idea]] to use [[ChekhovsArmy Hawkins's dwarf friends from the carnival]] to use the passage to enter the castle, while he leads the others to attack from the outside.]]
** Griselda hypnotising Hawkins. She first does it to him to get him to woo Gwendolyn and save her own life, then does it to him again at the end to protect him in his sword fight with Ravenhurst.
** ATotemPoleTrench. It's first done with Hawkins's dwarf friends a few times in the forest at the start of the film. [[spoiler:It's done again at the start of the climax to free Hawkins and Jean and let them know that Hawkins's dwarf friends are about to attack.]]
** Griselda hypnotising Hawkins. She first does it to him to get him to woo Gwendolyn and save her own life, then does it to him again at the end to protect him in his sword fight with Ravenhurst.
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* CleanCut: Hawkins slashes a set of candles, apparently to no effect, and Ravenhurst laughs at him. Then he ''blows'' on the candles, and they fall apart. This is another ActorAllusion, as well, as Tyrone Power had pulled a similar, if less exaggerated, bit of swordplay on Basil Rathbone's Captain Esteban in 1940's ''Film/TheMarkOfZorro.''
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* ImplausibleFencingPowers: Hawkins slashes a set of candles, apparently to no effect, and Ravenhurst laughs at him. Then he ''blows'' on the candles, and they fall apart. This is another ActorAllusion, as well, as Tyrone Power had pulled a similar, if less exaggerated, bit of swordplay on Basil Rathbone's Captain Esteban in 1940's ''Film/TheMarkOfZorro.''
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* LightningCanDoAnything: At one point Hawkins' armor is hit by lightning. After Hawkins puts it on, anything made of metal [[SelectiveMagnetism sticks to him]].
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* LightningCanDoAnything: At one point Hawkins' armor is hit by lightning. After Hawkins puts it on, anything made of metal [[SelectiveMagnetism sticks to him]].him]] which lets him defeat Sir Griswold.
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* AChildShallLeadThem: The surviving true royal is an infant. No regent is named at the end of the film though.
* AnswerCut: Jane wonders how they could get somebody inside the castle close to the king with access to his chamber. Cue Giacomo entering the shack.
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Hawkins pretends to be a jester from Italy. When a guard asks him why he doesn't have an accent, he replies that he is fluent in many languages and demonstrates it by talking a lot of nonsensical gibberish that sounds very much like French, Italian, and German. (This skill was then known as "double-talk", and Kaye was a famous master of it.) The guard, who doesn't understand any of this, allows him to pass
* BorrowedCatchphrase: Hawkins using Giacomo's "King of Jesters, and Jester to the King."
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* AChildShallLeadThem: The surviving true royal is an infant. No regent is named at the end of the film though.
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Hawkins is bumbling at rather a lot of things, but he is a competent faster father figure to the young king, his carnival skills make him rather adept at impersonating Giacomo, and it's an enforced trope when he gets to the castle and Griselda hypnotises him. [[spoiler:She does it first to make him court Gwendolyn, and again at the end to make him defeat Ravenhurst.]]
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Hawkins is bumbling at rather a lot of things, but he is a competent faster father figure to the young king, his carnival skills make him rather adept at impersonating Giacomo, and it's an enforced trope when he gets to the castle and Griselda hypnotises him. [[spoiler:She does it first to make him court Gwendolyn, and again at the end to make him defeat Ravenhurst.]]
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* EpicFlail: Hawkins faces off against a knight who [[WeaponOfChoice selects a mace and chain as his weapon]].
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* HaveAGayOldTime: He's the new Jester I've sent for, by reputation, the gayest and wittiest entertainer in Europe.
* HesDeadJim: Somebody quickly confirms the death of Brockhurst, Finsdale and Pertwee who were poisoned by Grizelda.
* HesDeadJim: Somebody quickly confirms the death of Brockhurst, Finsdale and Pertwee who were poisoned by Grizelda.
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* InstantDeathBullet: In the opening scene a mook dies instantly from an arrow wound inflicted by the Black Fox.
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* KissUpTheArm: Hawkins does this up and down Gwendolyn's arms while under hypnosis.
* KneelBeforeFrodo: In the final scene everybody is kneeling before the true baby king.
* KneelBeforeFrodo: In the final scene everybody is kneeling before the true baby king.
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* LargeHam: Roderick as well as the original Giacomo.
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* LetMeGetThisStraight: Roderick provides this kind of exposition when summarising the plan how to get his daughter married to Sir Griswold.
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* MacGuffin: Providing the key to the SecretPath into the castle is what drives the plot.
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* MaidAndMaiden: The princess has Griselda, an older maid/companion who is a hypnotist.
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* MistakenForBadass: Hawkins impersonates a jester, unaware that he is also an assassin. A series of well timed coincidences convince everyone he is the ruthless killer they believe he is.
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* SecretPath: There is a secret path into the castle but it needs a key to be opened.
* ShadowDiscretionShot: Hawkins is reluctant to knock out the real Giacomo with a login the woodman's hut, so Jean does this honors, and we see it happen as shadows on the wall.
* ShadowDiscretionShot: Hawkins is reluctant to knock out the real Giacomo with a login the woodman's hut, so Jean does this honors, and we see it happen as shadows on the wall.
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* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Maid Jean seems indifferent toward Hawkins at first, and the fact that Hawkins comes off as a bumbling fool, especially compared to the RobinHood {{Expy}} The Black Fox, seems to justify her attitude. When they spend some time alone together, prior to his taking the role of Giacomo the Jester, she confesses her true feelings to Hawkins, saying that she was attracted to his kindness and sensitivity; she is seen glancing longingly at Hawkins as he sings a lullaby to the infant king. She only seems cold and distant because she is focused on the task of overthrowing the usurper Roderick.
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** The instructions for the jester to avoid being poisoned are: the vessel with the pestle has the pellet with the poison, and the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true. Later (because the chalice from the palace is broken), the pellet with the poison is in the flagon with the dragon, and the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.
** "The Duchess dove at the Duke just when the Duke dove at the Doge. Now the Duke ducked, the Doge dodged, and the Duchess didn't. So the Duke got the Duchess, the Duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke!
** The instructions for the jester to avoid being poisoned are: the vessel with the pestle has the pellet with the poison, and the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true. Later (because the chalice from the palace is broken), the pellet with the poison is in the flagon with the dragon, and the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.
** "The Duchess dove at the Duke just when the Duke dove at the Doge. Now the Duke ducked, the Doge dodged, and the Duchess didn't. So the Duke got the Duchess, the Duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke!
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** A TotemPoleTrench. It's first done with Hawkins's dwarf friends a few times in the forest at the start of the film. [[spoiler:It's done again at the start of the climax to free Hawkins and Jean and let them know that Hawkins's dwarf friends are about to attack.]]
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* EurekaMoment: After the secret passage collapses, the Black Fox is informed there is barely enough of an opening for a child. [[spoiler:This gives him the idea to use Hawkins's dwarf friends from the carnival to use the passage and attack the castle while he and the others mount a second attack from the outside.]]
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* InfantImmortality: The last remaining rightful heir to the throne survived the massacre that wiped out the rest of the royal family and is being cared for by the Black Fox's group in the forest. Roderick attempts to avert it by ordering said heir to be capture and killed, and the rightful heir even spends a fair bit of time in the castle without detection [[spoiler:and ends up back on the throne at the end.]]
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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Gwendolyn has a moment of this when she refers to Griswold as "the grim and grisly gruesome Griswold", saying he's not called that for nothing.
** The whole bit about the Duke, the Duchess and the Doge is full of this.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: It's possible that Gwendolyn thinks being married to Griswold would be this, as she says she would rather die than be married to him.
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* IJustWantToBeLoved: Gwendolyn. She doesn't want to be forced into an ArrangedMarriage to Griswold because she wants to marry for love.
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** Ravenhurst, who plans to kill Brockhurst, Finsdale and Pertwee so he can avoid losing his position as the king's right-hand man.
** Ravenhurst, who plans to kill Brockhurst, Finsdale and Pertwee so he can avoid losing his position as the king's right-hand man.
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* AbusiveParents: Roderick gets a moment of this when he tells Gwendolyn that [[Arranged Marriage she will marry Griswold no matter what]], and that if she makes any false move, he will have her killed, regardless of the fact she is his daughter.
* BigDamnKiss: Hawkins and Jean in the woodman's hut when Hawkins tells her he will not fail in the plan, as the future of England depends on it.
** Hawkins and Gwendolyn in Gwendolyn's chambers, while Hawkins is still under Griselda's spell to woo her.
** Hawkins and Gwendolyn in Gwendolyn's chambers, while Hawkins is still under Griselda's spell to woo her.
* ButtMonkey: Fergus. He sneaks into the castle before the film starts, but only gets duties as an hostler, so they have to send someone else o the castle after him. He's ignored by everybody, including Hawkins and Jean a few times, while listening to him could have ended the film in about five minutes, and saved many lives, including his own. He does manage to get through to Jean by telling her his plan to send the key to the secret passage to the Black Fox is better than hers, but he's caught in the act by Ravenhurst and his henchmen and tortured to death (thankfully offscreen).
** Griselda hypnotising Hawkins. She first does it to him to get him to woo Gwendolyn and save her own life, then does it to him again at the end to protect him in his sword fight with Ravenhurst.
* ChekhovsSkill: Hawkins's entertaining skills from the carnival come in very hand when he has to pose as Giacomo, making his appearance as a jester pretty convincing.
* ChekhovsSkill: Hawkins's entertaining skills from the carnival come in very hand when he has to pose as Giacomo, making his appearance as a jester pretty convincing.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Brockhurst mentions early on that Ravenhurst likely fears losing his position as the king's advisor because of the alliance he (Brockhurst), Finsdale and Pertwee want Roderick to make with Griswold. Ravenhurst yells at him that he will die for that, to which Brockhurst replies, "One of us will!", before engaging in a brief sword fight. Ravenhurst later conspires to have Brockhurst, Finsdale and Pertwee killed off to prevent the alliance from going ahead.
* GetOut: Before the knighting ceremony, Jean's message to Hawkins tells him to do this, as they only want to knight him so they can kill him off. The message reads: "They Knight you only to kill you. Run for your life!"
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* OnlyOneName: Subverted with Hawkins, Jean reveals his first name is Hubert. Played straight with every other named character.
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* SayMyName: Roderick does this three times in a row when Brockhurst, Finsdale and Pertwee respectively drop dead at the banquet after being poisoned by Griselda.
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* ShakeSomeoneObjectsFall: Roderick shakes Gwendolyn when Hawkins is hiding in her chambers, and suddenly the key to the secret passage, which Gwendolyn had taken from Hawkins earlier in the scene, drops to the floor.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: Two befall Hawkins and Jean at the same time, while Hawkins is on his way to the castle impersonating Giacomo, and while Jean is on her way to the abbey in Dover to protect the infant king. A wheel of Hawkins's wagon breaks and Roderick's men make it to him just as he finishes repairing it. Luckily for him, they were there to escort him to the castle. As for Jean, Roderick's men are also rounding up the fairest wenches in the land and she ends up at the castle when they catch up to her, with the infant king still hidden in the wine cart.
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