History Film / BedknobsAndBroomsticks

* ConvenientDecoyCat: Cosmic Creepers acts as this for Professor Browne when he sneaks into Miss Price's cottage just before the climax--after first drawing the Nazis' attention by making angry growls and yowls at Emelius, he is found by the Nazis amongst the wreckage of the items Browne had knocked over and smashed. [[ItsProbablyNothing They dismiss the noise]] (until Brown makes more from the next room) and [[PetTheDog even show affection for the "naughty" cat]].

* {{Expy}}: Astoroth and his star seem to be inspired by the medieval alchemist and magus John Dee, with a little of Simon Magus thrown in. His attempts to make animals sentient, on the other hand (as well as his ultimate fate) are rather reminiscent of Dr. Moreau, only with magic instead of science and (presumably) out of benevolence rather than ForScience.

* XMeetsY: ''Film/MaryPoppins'' meets ''Film/TheEagleHasLanded''.

It's 1940 in the British coastal village of Pepperinge Eye, and among the children evacuated here from the ongoing London Blitz are three orphaned siblings: Charlie, Carrie, and Paul. They're reluctantly taken in by Miss Eglantine Price (AngelaLansbury), a spinster who's secretly taking mail-order witchcraft lessons in hopes of being able to aid the war effort with magic. Miss Price doesn't want the kids and the kids don't want Miss Price, so they try to get rid of each other as quickly as possible. But when the children see her flying on a broom at night, they strike a bargain: in exchange for keeping her secret, the children get to live their lives at Miss Price's home any way they like. To seal the deal, Miss Price gives little Paul a transportation spell which enchants the big bed into a magical travelling bed.

* AccidentallyBrokeTheMacGuffin: The characters have retrieved the Star of Astromov, imprinted with the words for the Substituary Locomotion. But as they arrive home, they find the star has disintegrated during the journey. [[ShaggyDogStory And it turned out to be unnecessary]], as one of the kid's storybooks had an illustration of the star, and more importantly, the words to the spell.

* NotNowKiddo: Basically how his older siblings, andsometimes the adults, treat Paul. [[CassandraTruth Basically, if they had listened to or believed him, much of what the heroes went through needn't have been done]].

* NightmareFuel: Browne was sleeping on a bench waiting for his train when he wakes up to an echo-y singing, and sees a ghosty lingerie-clad woman walking on the railroad tracks before she disappeared.

* ArmyOfTheAges: The army that Miss Price assembles to ward off the Nazi invasion, although they are really living suits of armours, not actual people

A Disney film from 1971, based on [[Literature/BedknobAndBroomstick a pair of novels by Mary Norton]]. The film is often regarded as a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Film/MaryPoppins'' -- a live action fantasy musical with a substantial segment incorporating animation, with the same production company, same director, same scriptwriters, same songwriters, one actor in common, etc.

A Disney film from 1971, based on [[Literature/BedknobAndBroomstick a pair of novels by Mary Norton]]. The film is often regarded as a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Film/MaryPoppins'' -- a live action fantasy musical with a substantial segment incorporating animation, with the same director, same scriptwriters, same songwriters, one actor in common, etc.

* MobileKiosk: Everything in Portobello Road that isn't nailed down. As well as Professor Browne's nifty suitcase act.
* {{Muggles}}: Professor Browne at first, but he believes once he sees (or rather, once he gets turned into a rabbit). And, amusingly, the Nazis, who don't believe.

* OminousLatinChanting: Well, it becomes ominous after Eglantine and company quit singing it: ''[[AC:Treguna. Macoides. Trecorum. Satis. Dee.]]''

* XMeetsY: ''Film/MaryPoppins'' meets ''TheEagleHasLanded''.

*** He did at least learn to be a little more clever about it the second time - rather than demanding she give them something fancy, he makes the deal that they receive a precious object (the travelling spell), and if they break their end of the deal, they have to give the object back. She even comments that it's an excellent idea.

* ChildrenRaiseYou

--> '''[[MookLieutenant German Sergeant]]:''' Its a witch sir!

* AnimatedArmor: Price animates a whole army at the climax
* BalefulPolymorph: Ms. Price's spells tend to turn people into rabbits instead of frogs.

** ''Literally''. With some [[BritsWithBattleships British]] ProudWarriorRace porn. They drive off the Germans, however, a bomb blows up and knocks Price off her broom. Before the Germans realize that the armor is inert, the home guard come and force them to retreat.

* ImmuneToBullets: Since there's no actual living body in the armors animated by Substitutiary Locomotion, being raked by machine guns is but a minor inconvenience. Suits of armor that include greaves and boots do seem to be inconvenienced by the weight of collected rounds, to the point where they halt their advance to disconnect a boot and dump out the bullet fragments. This is a move that drives home the fact that there's no legs in the boots and no hands in the gloves, but there it is. Even hand grenades can't keep one down for long.

* KeystoneArmy: Miss Price's army of armors.
* KnifeOutline: Archer armors animated by Subtitutionary Locomotion pull this off with their arrows.
* KnightInShiningArmor: If a whole army of empty medieval armors kicking the ass of ThoseWackyNazis counts.

* LiteralAssKicking: A major part of the comedic tone in the climatic battle. A German soldier removes the upper part of an armor and gets his ass kicked by the lower part. Another soldier gets his ass kicked repeatedly while dangling on a halberd. Another animated armor swings its sword on some fleeing Germans' butts.

* TapOnTheHead: Two German commandos are knocked unconscious by the animated suits of armor.

--> '''[[MookLieutenant German Sergeant]]:'''Its a witch sir!
--> '''Colonel:'''Don't be a fool, there's no such thing as a witch!

--> '''Colonel:'''There is the witch.
--> '''German Sergeant:'''[[DeadpanSnarker You said there was no such thing as a witch, sir?]]

This 1971 Disney film, a take on [[Literature/BedknobAndBroomstick a pair of novels by Mary Norton]], is often regarded as a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Film/MaryPoppins'' - a live action fantasy musical with a substantial segment incorporating animation, with the same director, same scriptwriters, same songwriters, one actor in common, etc.

It is 1940 in the British coastal village of Pepperinge Eye, and among the children evacuated here from the ongoing London Blitz are three orphaned siblings, Charlie, Carrie, and Paul. They are taken in by Miss Eglantine Price (AngelaLansbury), a spinster whom they discover is secretly taking mail-order witchcraft lessons in hopes of being able to aid the war effort with magic. But the school abruptly closes, leaving her without the all-important Substitutiary Locomotion spell she needs. She and the children travel to London via bed - in exchange for the children keeping her secret, she enchanted one of its bedknobs for them with a traveling spell - and discover the "professor", Emelius Browne, is a fraud who was just selling her the pages of an incomplete spellbook. So begins a greater journey, from the market at Portobello Road to the Isle of Naboombu (land of animated [[Main/TalkingAnimal talking animals]]), in search of the spell. Once Miss Price learns it, she'll have to use its power to bring inanimate objects to life to save her hometown from none other than the Nazis.

* ThoseWackyNazis: Variation - the ''heroine'' is the Secret Project Leader looking to turn the tide in the war in favour of the British, and the Nazis are flummoxed by her abilities because they don't believe in magic.

** The Nazi leader. "Es gibt keine Hexe! (There's no such thing as witches!)" Okay, then how do ''you'' explain the floating armour army and the flying lady on a broomstick?
*** Well, perhaps he thought the army was just another decoy trick (British Intelligence had dozens of such operations set up throughout the war. I hope we all have seen the footage of a soldier tipping over a ''tank'' with one hand). And Ms Price on the broom? Perhaps he thought it was an ultra-light spyplane for the British (?).