![]() ![]() ![]() Writer-directors Norman Panama and Melvin Frank have collected just about every possible trope from the Douglas Fairbanks/Errol Flynn/Tyrone Power swashbucklers and turned them on their ears highlighting their verbal comedy with lots of alliterative word play (“Get It-Got It-Good,” the brilliant “vessel with a pestle” sequence) and letting slapstick rule the roost with clown Danny Kaye at the center of it all. But fate takes a hand when the king’s daughter Gwendolyn (Angela Lansbury) becomes smitten with the jovial jester, and it’s revealed that the real Giacomo was in reality a hired assassin brought in by the evil Sir Ravenhurst (Basil Rathbone) so he could take over the kingdom and have the beauteous Gwendolyn for himself. Thus former circus performer Hubert Hawkins (Danny Kaye) is tasked with impersonating incoming Italian jester Giacomo (John Carradine) long enough to steal the key. With a usurper king (Cecil Parker) claiming the throne from the infant who’s the true next king of England, the bandit The Black Fox (Edward Ashley), his captain Jean (Glynis Johns), and his Merrie Men have a plan of invading the palace and tossing out the faux monarch, but to gain entrance to the castle, they must get the key to the vault tunnel door which is always on the king’s person. ![]()
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