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''Until at last, you start believing there's something wonderful in you!"'' }}
The 1971 Disney film '''''Bedknobs and Broomsticks''''', a take on [[Bedknob and Broomstick|a pair of novels by Mary Norton]], is often regarded as a [[Spiritual Successor]] to ''[[Mary Poppins]]''
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 ([[Angela Lansbury]]), 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
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* [[Billing Displacement]]: Roddy McDowall is third-billed and, in the uncut version of the movie, he does indeed play a significant supporting character. However, in the theatrical cut of the movie, his role was reduced to The Guy Who Gets Attacked By Miss Price's Nightgown, but they still billed him right below Angela Lansbury and David Tomlinson.
* [[Blitz Evacuees]]
* [[Bowdlerization]]: The German dub removed the entire Nazi plot or anything that relates to WWII, effectively cutting out a whopping 29 minutes of the
* [[Calvin Ball]]: Soccer matches on the Island of Naboombu. "Don't they have no rules?" "'Course they do. King makes'em up as he goes along."
* [[Can't Take Anything with You]]: Miss Price goes to the Isle of Naboombu and gets the Star of Astaroth, but once she and her group return home, she realises not only that she couldn't take objects from different worlds, but that she didn't memorize the spell inscribed on the star.
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* [[Crowd Song]]: "Portobello Road," to a rather ridiculous extent.
* [[Cute Witch]]: Miss Price. A bit older than standard, but no less cute.
* [[Cut Song]]: The film originally ran 139 minutes, but was cut by 22 for its initial theatrical release. Three songs -- "A Step in the Right Direction", "With a Flair", and "Nobody's Problems"
** The "story and songs" record had "With a Flair" and a full version of "Portobello Road".
* [[Dancing Pants]]: A whole wardrobe's worth of clothes dance in the "Substitutiary Locomotion" number.
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* [[Tap on the Head]]: Two German commandos are knocked unconscious by the animated suits of armor.
** Also: "WHY! DIDN'T! YOU! SAY! SO?!?!??!!!!"
* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]:
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: The ostrich in the soccer match.
** 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?
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