The Court Jester
The Court Jester is a 1956 musicalcomedy film starring Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury and Cecil Parker. The movie was cowritten, codirected, and coproduced by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama. The film was released by Paramount Pictures in Technicolor and in the VistaVision widescreen format.
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. Danny Kaye plays Hubert Hawkins, an excarnival entertainer who becomes minstrel to the Black Fox, a Robin Hoodtype character who leads a band of rebels in the forest in support of the true infantking.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 Griswolds aid against the band of forest rebels. 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 Griswold marriage plan also displeases Lord Ravenhurst Basil Rathbone, who fears that Griswolds presence may cost him his privileged position with the king. ........
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