10. Come on. You know it’s a guilty pleasure. You keep one eye on the screen and another on the door in case someone should come into the room and catch you. Bu-Bu-Bu-Bing crooning those tunes as Sir Boss with his faithful companion Sir Sagramore as played by William Bendix in a bad wig, with the rouge-lipped Rhonda Fleming as the buxom Alisande.

8. Here is a situation where the cast really keeps it afloat. The extremely watchable Heath Ledger and the brilliance of Paul Bettany, Alan Tudyk, and Mark Addy save this farce from complete extinction. “Inspired by the Canterbury Tales” insomuch as Geoffrey Chaucer is a character in it. Anachronistic music and horrible costumes.

6. Dark, twisted, and freakish turn at an abbey with a secret. Has two things going for it: Sean Connery and a naked Christian Slater (you were thinking it too). Also has the added benefit of omitting the first hundred pages of the novel, so everybody wins.

4. The battle scenes are wonderfully realistic. You are right there in the action. Watch that long, long shot of Branagh striding through the battleground. And, of course, his delivery of the St. Crispin’s Day speech. Makes me want to take up arms against France, too (but what doesn’t?) I listen to the soundtrack over and over while I write.

2. Danny Kaye at his very best. Basil Rathbone is back in a parody of his role in Robin Hood, and playing it straight. More great lines to recite in this movie (“the chalice with the palace has the pellet with the poison but the flagon with the dragon has the brew that is true.”)