Actor Allusion: When Hawkins says, "Ravenshurst, you rat-catcher," he is not only alluding to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, but to the fact that Basil Rathbone had played Tybalt note whom Mercutio in the play insults by comparing him to "Tybalt, the King of Cats," from the beast-fable of Reynard the Fox in the 1936 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film version.
Action Girl: Maid Jean, especially for the standards of the time.Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: The scene of Hawkins and Jean admitting their feelings for each other in the woodman's hut.Abusive Parents: Roderick gets a moment of this when he tells Gwendolyn that she will marry Griswold no matter what, and that if she makes any false move, he will have her killed, regardless of the fact she is his daughter.This is thanks in no small part to the talents of Danny Kaye, who is about as unlikely an adventure hero as you could get, and the film makes sure to milk every drop of hilarity from that.
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The film flopped when it came out, but was later a hit on TV and has come to be embraced as a Cult Classic. If this were a drama, the odds would be against them. Now they must rely on their wits to keep the child from being discovered and killed. When two of the outlaws, Hubert Hawkins and Maid Jean, try to take the child to safety, they somehow wind up within the walls of the usurper's castle. The Black Fox and his band of outlaws have sworn to protect the true king, but fate conspires to place the child in greater danger than ever before. Roderick the Tyrant has recently usurped the throne as king, and now only an infant boy survives from the true line. The royal family of old England has been wiped out. This 1956 musical-comedy Farce - written and directed by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank and starring Danny Kaye, with a supporting cast that includes Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury, Cecil Parker, Mildred Natwick, and John Carradine - mercilessly spoofs the conventions of medieval Swashbuckler films of the 1930s through the '50s. "King of Jesters, and Jester to the King."
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