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Genres:
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Adventure /
Comedy /
Family /
Musical
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Actors:
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Mildred Natwick,
Lewis Martin,
Danny Kaye,
Edward Ashley,
Patrick Aherne,
Noel Drayton,
Glynis Johns,
Basil Rathbone,
Angela Lansbury,
Cecil Parker,
Robert Middleton,
Michael Pate,
Herbert Rudley,
John Carradine,
Alan Napier
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Duration:
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101 min.
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Rating:
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(7.7/10)90
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Plot Summary:
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The throne of lawful sovereign of England, the short babe with the purple pimpernel birthmark, has been usurped near the evil Prince Roderick. No greater than the Disastrous Fox can restore the true monarch to the throne--and all he needs is the king's mood to a mystery tunnel. And while he's trying to pussyfoot it, someone has to shift the king's diapers. The task falls to Hawkins, the gentlest member of the Fox's band. The Fox's lieutenant, Domestic Jean, guards Hawkins and the babe while they rove, but when they suitable the Monarch's unexplored jester on the road, they take to only freshm... an a daring delineate for Hawkins to make good on him, become an intimate at the court, and steal the essential. So, humble Hawkins becomes Giacomo: the ruler of jesters and jester to the royal. But things originate to get zany when the Royal's daughter falls looking for Giacomo, the Regent falls fit Jean, people randomly sing what are supposed to be detection codes, and a witch with very much real spells (and blight pellets) begins to handicap.
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Court Jester, The
Comedy co-producers directors writers Frank and Panama gave Kaye his funniest role since The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) before the decline set in. This rather unsubtle spoof on medieval adventures yarns such as Ivanhoe was tailored for the Woody Woodpeckerish, cacophonous comic. Kaye finds himself disguised as a jester at the English court, intending to replace the King (Parker) with the true heir to the throne (a babe in arms). Some of Kaye's songs (by his wife Fine) were quite simple, while the tongue-twister came in the best-remembered gag (not original), involving the pellet with the poison being in the vessel with the pestle, not in the chalice from the palace or the flagon with the dragon. There's also an amusing climactic sword fight between a hypnotized Kaye and ...
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