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* AdaptationDisplacement: Much, ''much'' better known than ''Bedtime Story'', the 1964 movie with Creator/DavidNiven, Creator/MarlonBrando and Shirley Jones which it's based on (the original movie's writers share credit on the new version with Dale Launer). [[spoiler: (The "innocent" really ''is'' one this time, and she and the American con artist run off together, once he does a HeelFaceTurn.)]]

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* AdaptationDisplacement: Much, ''much'' better known than ''Bedtime Story'', ''Film/BedtimeStory1964'', the 1964 movie with Creator/DavidNiven, Creator/MarlonBrando and Shirley Jones Creator/ShirleyJones which it's based on (the original movie's writers share credit on the new version with Dale Launer). [[spoiler: (The "innocent" really ''is'' one this time, and she and the American con artist run off together, once he does a HeelFaceTurn.)]]

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covering spoilers


* MagnificentBitch: [[ConMan Janet Colgate]] is "The Jackal", an infamous con artist who scams money out of unassuming men. Posing as a wealthy socialite tourist, once she crosses paths with con artists Lawrence and Freddy, Janet, already knowing that they're trying to swindle her of her money, feigns naivety to get the unsuspecting men to do her bidding. Leaving the country $50,000 richer, Janet is no less jovial towards Lawrence and Freddy, allowing them to partake in her latest scam after finding their prior con the most fun she's ever had.
* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Series/AmericanHorrorStory Moira O'Hara/The Angel of Death/Myrtle Snow/Gloria Mott]] as the Lady from Palm Beach.

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* MagnificentBitch: [[ConMan MagnificentBastard: [[spoiler:[[ConMan Janet Colgate]] is "The Jackal", an infamous con artist who scams money out of unassuming men. Posing as a wealthy socialite tourist, once she crosses paths with con artists Lawrence and Freddy, Janet, already knowing that they're trying to swindle her of her money, feigns naivety to get the unsuspecting men to do her bidding. Leaving the country $50,000 richer, Janet is no less jovial towards Lawrence and Freddy, allowing them to partake in her latest scam after finding their prior con the most fun she's ever had.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Series/AmericanHorrorStory Moira O'Hara/The Angel of Death/Myrtle Snow/Gloria Mott]] as the Lady from Palm Beach.Beach.
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Merged.


* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Lawrence pretends to have a mentally challenged brother named Ruprecht. After Creator/MichaelCaine's mother died in 1989, he discovered he had a half-brother named David who had been institutionalized due to severe epilepsy and brain damage.

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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: HarsherInHindsight: Lawrence pretends to have a mentally challenged brother named Ruprecht. After Creator/MichaelCaine's mother died in 1989, he discovered he had a half-brother named David who had been institutionalized due to severe epilepsy and brain damage.
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Star Wars predates this, so this doesn't count


* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Series/AmericanHorrorStory Moira O'Hara/The Angel of Death/Myrtle Snow/Gloria Mott]] as the Lady from Palm Beach.
** [[Franchise/StarWars Senator/Emperor Palpatine]] as Arthur, Lawrence's butler.

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* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Series/AmericanHorrorStory Moira O'Hara/The Angel of Death/Myrtle Snow/Gloria Mott]] as the Lady from Palm Beach.
** [[Franchise/StarWars Senator/Emperor Palpatine]] as Arthur, Lawrence's butler.
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* MagnificentBitch: [[ConMan Janet Colgate]] is "The Jackal", an infamous con artist who scams money out of unassuming men. Posing as a wealthy socialite tourist, once she crosses paths with con artists Lawrence and Freddy, Janet, already knowing that they're trying to swindle her of her money, feigns naivety to get the unsuspecting men to do her bidding. Leaving the country $50,000 richer, Janet is no less jovial towards Lawrence and Freddy, allowing them to partake in her latest scam after finding their prior con the most fun she's ever had.
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%%* MagnificentBastard: Lawrence Jamieson.

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* AdaptationDisplacement: Must, ''much'' better known than ''Bedtime Story'', the 1964 movie with Creator/DavidNiven, Creator/MarlonBrando and Shirley Jones which it's based on (the original movie's writers share credit on the new version with Dale Launer). [[spoiler: (The "innocent" really ''is'' one this time, and she and the American con artist run off together, once he does a HeelFaceTurn.)]]

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* AdaptationDisplacement: Must, Much, ''much'' better known than ''Bedtime Story'', the 1964 movie with Creator/DavidNiven, Creator/MarlonBrando and Shirley Jones which it's based on (the original movie's writers share credit on the new version with Dale Launer). [[spoiler: (The "innocent" really ''is'' one this time, and she and the American con artist run off together, once he does a HeelFaceTurn.)]])]]
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Lawrence pretends to have a mentally challenged brother named Ruprecht. After Creator/MichaelCaine's mother died in 1989, he discovered he had a half-brother named David who had been institutionalized due to severe epilepsy and brain damage.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Series/AmericanHorrorStory Moira O'Hara/The Angel of Death/Myrtle Snow/Gloria Mott]] as the Lady from Palm Beach.

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* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Series/AmericanHorrorStory Moira O'Hara/The Angel of Death/Myrtle Snow/Gloria Mott]] as the Lady from Palm Beach.Beach.
** [[Franchise/StarWars Senator/Emperor Palpatine]] as Arthur, Lawrence's butler.

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Return of the Jedi was already five years old when this movie came out?


* RetroactiveRecognition:
** [[Series/AmericanHorrorStory Moira O'Hara/The Angel of Death/Myrtle Snow/Gloria Mott]] as the Lady from Palm Beach.
** [[Franchise/StarWars The Emperor/Senator Palpatine/Darth Sidious]] as Lawrence's valet, Arthur.

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* RetroactiveRecognition:
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RetroactiveRecognition: [[Series/AmericanHorrorStory Moira O'Hara/The Angel of Death/Myrtle Snow/Gloria Mott]] as the Lady from Palm Beach.
** [[Franchise/StarWars The Emperor/Senator Palpatine/Darth Sidious]] as Lawrence's valet, Arthur.
Beach.

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* MagnificentBastard: Lawrence Jamieson.
** BastardUnderstudy: Freddy Benson.

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* %%* MagnificentBastard: Lawrence Jamieson.
** BastardUnderstudy: Freddy Benson.
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** And, of course, [[Franchise/StarWars The Emperor/Senator Palpatine/Darth Sidious]] as Lawrence's valet, Arthur.

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** And, of course, [[Franchise/StarWars The Emperor/Senator Palpatine/Darth Sidious]] as Lawrence's valet, Arthur.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: Must, ''much'' better known than ''Bedtime Story'', the 1964 movie with Creator/DavidNiven, Creator/MarlonBrando and Shirley Jones which it's based on (the original movie's writers share credit on the new version with Dale Launer). [[spoiler: (The "innocent" really ''is'' one this time, and she and the American con artist run off together, once he does a HeelFaceTurn.)]]
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* RetroactiveRecognition:
** [[Series/AmericanHorrorStory Moira O'Hara/The Angel of Death/Myrtle Snow/Gloria Mott]] as the Lady from Palm Beach.
** And, of course, [[Franchise/StarWars The Emperor/Senator Palpatine/Darth Sidious]] as Lawrence's valet, Arthur.
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* MagnificentBastard: Lawrence Jamieson.
** BastardUnderstudy: Freddy Benson.

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