The Court Jester (1955)

Leo Britt: Sir Bertram

Quotes 

• Ravenhurst : Welcome home, Sir Bertram. You saw the jester's performance?

  Sir Bertram : Mm-hmm.

  Ravenhurst : When I sent you to negotiate with Giacomo, I never expected results like this. Was he not brilliant?

  Sir Bertram : Indeed... with one slight discrepancy. This man is not Giacomo.

  Ravenhurst : What?

  Sir Bertram : Ah, I know not this pretender, but I assure you he is not the Giacomo I met and negotiated with in Europe.

  Captain of the Guard : I tell you, I've seen this man before, and somehow, that maid.

  Sir Locksley : What did I tell you? What plan now?

  Ravenhurst : To my chambers immediately.

• Ravenhurst : But if he's not Giacomo, who can he be, and what does he want? Why would he do our every bidding?

  Sir Locksley : Why would he work to destroy the alliance?

  Ravenhurst : Why would he murder with the cunning of a fox?

  [a thought strikes him] 

  Ravenhurst : A fox. But of course, a fox. A Black Fox.

  Sir Locksley : But you don't think that...

  Ravenhurst : Why not? Who else would oppose Griswold and want the alliance destroyed but that rabble in the forest?

  Captain of the Guard : The forest?

  [realizing how he knows Hawkins] 

  Captain of the Guard : That's where I saw him, dressed as an old man riding into the forest, with the very wench who sat beside the king tonight.

  Ravenhurst : My lords, what a prize! The Black Fox himself!

  Sir Bertram : Expose him! You'll get all the credit.

  Ravenhurst : Not so fast. Not until the Fox pays us one last service. He'll rid us forever of the barbaric Griswold.

  Sir Locksley : Kill Griswold? But how?

  Ravenhurst : Whose is the deadliest blade in England? Who is the only man alive who can best Griswold in mortal combat? Only the Black Fox.

  Sir Locksley : But the Fox is a commoner and cannot fight in tournament.

  Ravenhurst : We shall see.