He is assigned to steal the key to a secret passage into the castle, through which the Black Fox could then attack. They knock him out and Hawkins impersonates him, hoping to gain entry to the King's castle. They encounter the King's new jester, "Giacomo, 'King of Jesters and Jester of Kings'" (John Carradine) on his way to the castle. On the journey, a romance blossoms between Hawkins and Jean.
The Black Fox orders Hawkins to carry the infant-king across the country to safety, accompanied by his captain, the maid Jean. The Griswold marriage plan also displeases Lord Ravenhurst (Basil Rathbone), who fears that Griswold's presence may cost him his privileged position with the king. Princess Gwendolyn refuses, since she dreams of a more handsome, gallant lover, and her personal maid Griselda (Mildred Natwick), who is a witch, has predicted that her true love will arrive at the castle to court her. The usurping King Roderick (Cecil Parker) wishes his daughter, Princess Gwendolyn (Angela Lansbury), to marry his neighbour, Sir Griswold of MacElwain (Robert Middleton), and to enlist Griswold's aid against the band of forest rebels. Danny Kaye plays Hubert Hawkins, an ex-carnival entertainer who becomes minstrel to the Black Fox, a Robin Hood-type character who leads a band of rebels in the forest in support of the true infant-king. Set in medieval England, the plot concerns the struggle to restore to the throne the rightful heir, a baby with a distinguishing birthmark, the purple pimpernel on his posterior. In 2004, The Court Jester was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." The film contains the famous exchanges: "Get it?" "Got it." "Good!" and "The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!" (mainly between Kaye and Mildred Natwick as Griselda). Since then, it has become a television matinee favorite. The motion picture bombed at the box-office on its release, bringing in only $2.2 million in receipts the following winter and spring of 1956. Made for a cost of $4 million in the fall of 1955, it was the most expensive comedy film produced at the time.
The film was released by Paramount Pictures in Technicolor and in the VistaVision widescreen format.ĭanny Kaye received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture Actor – Comedy/Musical.
DANNY KAYE THE COURT JESTER MOVIE
The movie was co-written, co-directed, and co-produced by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama. The Court Jester is a 1956 musical-comedy film starring Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury and Cecil Parker.
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