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{{quote| "You see, Eleña, the whole trouble comes from treating your enemies like human beings. Don't you see, my dear, that if you do that, they cease to be enemies? Think what that leads to. It's the end of patriotism -- it's the end of war -- it's the end of -- of ''everything''."}}
This comes perilously close to overthrowing the entire propaganda purpose of the film. One wonders if Korda's writers were entirely committed to his message, or were trying to seem reasonable to those who might doubt -- or were so jingoistic that they applied this to every other nation ''but Britain''.
* [[Cold
* [[Les Collaborateurs]]: The English courtiers plotting against Elizabeth (for unstated reasons, interestingly).
* [[Dark Reprise]]: Of Michael's tune, "The Spanish Lady's Love," which he uses to entreat Eleña not to reveal his identity.
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* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Interestingly, Michael has to do this to Eleña ''after'' she has fallen in love with him. After he has denounced her as a "Spanish devil" and returned to England, she has married another man and is fully aware that Michael is in Spain as a spy; he must convince her not to give him up.
* [[Designated Hero]]: Some viewers may find it hard to warm up to Michael, with his temperamental outbursts and outrageous mistreatment of Eleña, including his shameless manipulation of her feelings for England's political advantage.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]?: The Spanish in this film clearly are stand-ins for the Nazis.
* [[Double Entendre]]: As a non-sexual example, Michael's toasting the Spanish with "To the salvation of England."
** More usual, perhaps, is the part when Elizabeth, finding Cynthia kissing Michael, exclaims, "Who gave the wench leave to mount my throne?"
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* [[Heel Face Turn]]: When Elizabeth confronts them, alone and unarmed, ''all'' the English conspirators [[Kneel Before Frodo|sink down on their knees]] and shout, "God save the Queen!"
* [[The Heretic]]: What Eleña at first calls Michael, and what Sir Richard is presumably burnt for being.
* [[Hey
* [[The High Queen]]: Elizabeth
* [[Historical Domain Character]]: King Philip II; [[The Virgin Queen|Queen Elizabeth I]]; William Cecil, Lord Burleigh; Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.
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'''Cynthia:''' ''Because she ''likes'' you''. [''He looks puzzled; she glances at him disgustedly.''] }}
* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: Heard when the [[The Spanish Inquisition|Inquisition]] come to arrest Sir Richard Ingolby and during his execution, and again in the Escurial.
* [[Eerie Pale
* [[Pimped
* [[Pirate]]: What the Spanish consider Drake (and by implication, Ingolby).
* [[Privateer]]: Sir Richard Ingolby; Drake from the English point of view
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