Court Jester features Kaye's famous Pellet with the Poison routine. Hawkins is able to persuade Roderick and his men that he is indeed a jester, but his espionage work gets complicated when Princess Gwendolyn (Angela Lansbury) falls in love with him, and he runs afoul of Sir Ravenhurst (Basil Rathbone), the evil genius behind Roderick. Former carnival performer Hubert Hawkins (Danny Kaye) and maid Jean (Glynis Johns) are assigned to protect the infant royal heir from tyrannical King Roderick I. The rebels quickly hatch a plan: detain the jester and send Hawkins in his place the king can then find the key and initiate the overthrow.
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An anthology of his humorous writing for The Lawyers magazine was published in 2017 as Court Jester and the series of 60 poems he penned during the 2020 Lockdown for The Leaflet has been published in December 2020 as The.
Maid Jean (Glynis Johns), one of the rebels, meets a man en route to the Castle who is to be Roderick's new jester. For more than 20 years he has been a contributor of articles and poems to publications of the Lawyers Collective. The Black Fox travels with the little king and his rebels as they search for the key to a secret tunnel that will allow them passage into the castle.
Brave rebel leader The Black Fox (Edward Ashley) intends to remove Roderick from the palace and bring the crown back to its true owner, but in the meantime the baby king needs to be looked after, which is the job of a man named Hawkins (Kaye). While the infant King of England awaits his rightful place as leader of the British Empire, his rule is usurped by Roderick (Cecil Parker), an evil pretender to the throne. Danny Kaye spoofs medieval swashbucklers in this classic musical comedy.
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