# Identify this movie!

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**Created:** [December 30, 2015, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie/741770 "2015-12-30T21:40:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie/741770/1 "2015-12-30T21:40:44Z")

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I saw this film on TV in France many years ago (likely late 80s). I’m positive it was dubbed from English to French. It was in monochrome, not colour. The scene I recall is near the end, with monks marching into stalls (in a chapel?) and then throwing off their robes and revealing themselves to be knights, possibly with the King present. I thought it was [Ivanhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanhoe_(1952_film)) or [Quentin Durward](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Quentin_Durward), but the plots of neither ring any bells with regard to that scene, and both of those are in colour.

Help me Dopers!

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**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie/741770/2 "2015-12-30T21:49:48Z")

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Could it have been a monochrome version of [The Adventures of Robin Hood](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029843/?ref_=nv_sr_1)?.

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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie/741770/3 "2015-12-30T22:05:38Z")

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> [@Sefton](#):
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> Could it have been a monochrome version of [The Adventures of Robin Hood](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029843/?ref_=nv_sr_1)?.

Just thinking that. It seems to be a standard part of the King Richard story.

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**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie/741770/4 "2015-12-30T22:25:19Z")

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That was my first thought but the Errol Flynn version was in Technicolor. Perhaps the later English version? I sure does sound like Robin Hood.

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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie/741770/5 "2015-12-30T22:29:02Z")

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Yeah, that sounds like the kind of stunt that Richard would have pulled. Anything to get John in trouble.