![]() ![]() Nothing more to be said except - The Court Jester - for those who never have seen it before: its a parody of any swashbuckler / sword and "Knight" movies like "The Adventures of Robin Hood", "Knight of the Round Table", "Ivanhoe" "The Black Shield of Falworth", "The Three Musketeer", - packed into a musical-comedy, with amazing dialogues (written by Danny Kaye's real-life wife Sylvia Fine). Sound: mono - english/german/french (2.0.) PICTURE QUALITY: CLEAN, SHARP with FINE details (on costumes) visibile, free of any damages/dirt deutsches Menu/ + Untertitel)īonus-feature: "Focus" on The Court Jester by Leonard Maltin ![]() The most important Info about this Import/US-Bluray: The Bluray is CODEFREE.įor the german speaking fans: die bluray/der Film enthält deutschen Ton (inkl. Fletcher Dame Angela Lansbury as Princess. Directed by: Jim Henson, Steve Barron, Jon Amiel and Peter Smith. "The Court Jester" starring fast-tongued comedian Danny Kaye and other leading roles / supporting roles: Basil Rathbone (who's spoofing himself) and the future Mrs. Starring: John Hurt, Brian Henson, Sean Bean and Miranda Richardson. Only the Black Fox (Edward Ashley) can restore the true King to the throne and all he needs is the King's key to a secret tunnel. It's been added to my own Flickchart at #1803 (51%), where it comes in as #31 of the 51 musical comedies I've seen.Finally on bluray - life couldn't better be. The Court Jester (1955) Trailer The throne of rightful King of England, the small baby with the purple pimpernel birthmark, has been usurped by the evil King Roderick I (Cecil Parker). The Court Jester is Hannah's 7th favorite musical comedy out of 98, ranking at #43 (98%) out of the 2566 total movies on her Flickchart. The Court Jester was brought to my Potluck Film Fest by Hannah Keefer, who can be found on Flickchart and Letterboxd under the username purplecow17. I may have liked it more than I care to admit. Also like The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Court Jester is colorful with some pleasingly fun swashbuckling action. However, Kaye (or, rather, my likely insane reaction to him) doesn't totally derail The Court Jester, which features clever dialog, an army of midgets, and appealing co-stars like Glynis Johns, Angela Lansbury and Basil Rathbone. Even that can work, if it's dryly delivered (see Bill Murray), but there's a further eagerness and energy to Kaye that results in an uncanny valley of humor. In fact, the basis of the comedy in the Court Jester never exploits a personal failing of Kaye's character he merely has to weather a flurry of mayhem, and is even oblivious to most of it, coasting through with a smirk on his face. Kaye trips the same knee-jerk negative reaction in me that punished Errol Flynn's The Adventures of Robin Hood two years ago: Kaye is smug, and often comes off like the cool rich kid who beat up a scrawny comedian and stole his act, compensating for his lack of vulnerability with cute little faces and dances that practically mock entertainment itself. ![]() While Kaye's character in The Court Jester could fit any of those slots - he's unappreciated and lovestruck - Kaye is too confident and self-satisfied to play weakness, which makes the humor less funny and his character less charming than he thinks he is. There's a yearning behind the comedy, a hopelessly self-sabotaging need to belong, that gives it both edge and pathos. ![]() Allen's persona, however, fits one or more of a few very common comic archetypes - misfit, neurotic, buffoon - all of which are defined by their outsider status. it's an amiable comedy with a few nice laughs, and I appreciated it most when I could detect in Kaye's quips the influence that he undoubtedly had on Woody Allen (the plot of The Court Jester even slightly foreshadows Allen's great 1975 comedy Love and Death). There's something about Danny Kaye that I find off-putting, and that, probably unfairly, put The Court Jester at a disadvantage. ![]()
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