Le bouffon du roi

Titre original : The Court Jester

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Adventure Comedy Family Musical

Un infortuné artiste de carnaval se fait passer pour le bouffon de la cour dans le cadre d'un complot contre un dirigeant tyrannique qui a renversé le roi légitime.Un infortuné artiste de carnaval se fait passer pour le bouffon de la cour dans le cadre d'un complot contre un dirigeant tyrannique qui a renversé le roi légitime.Un infortuné artiste de carnaval se fait passer pour le bouffon de la cour dans le cadre d'un complot contre un dirigeant tyrannique qui a renversé le roi légitime.

Réalisation
- Melvin Frank
- Norman Panama
Scénario
- Norman Panama
- Melvin Frank
Casting principal

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NOTE IMDb

7,8/10

14 k

MA NOTE

Réalisation
- Melvin Frank
- Norman Panama
Scénario
- Norman Panama
- Melvin Frank
Casting principal

Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro

Récompenses
- 1 victoire et 1 nomination au total

Anecdotes
Features Basil Rathbone's final sword fight on film.

Gaffes
When Hubert and Maid Jean are nearing King Roderick's castle, Sir Ravenhurst and Sir Locksley watch their arrival through telescopes, an invention of the 17th century.

Citations
Hawkins: I've got it! I've got it! The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! Right?
Griselda: Right. But there's been a change: they broke the chalice from the palace!
Hawkins: They *broke* the chalice from the palace?
Griselda: And replaced it with a flagon.
Hawkins: A flagon...?
Griselda: With the figure of a dragon.
Hawkins: Flagon with a dragon.
Griselda: Right.
Hawkins: But did you put the pellet with the poison in the vessel with the pestle?
Griselda: No! The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon! The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true!
Hawkins: The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon; the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.
Griselda: Just remember that.

Crédits fous
The opening credits are a musical number where Hawkins dances around the credits as they appear. This is also the manner of a medieval theatre where an actor serves as a prologue to introduce the story.

Connexions
Featured in The Dick Cavett Show: Danny Kaye (1971)

Bandes originales
The Maladjusted Jester
Written by Sylvia Fine
Performed by Danny Kaye

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7/10

Danny Kaye Jests and Jousts

A supremely wacky and delightful Danny Kaye comedy.

Kaye plays a court jester impostor who infiltrates a king's court in order to put in motion a plan hatched by a scrappy band of Robin Hoodesque rebels who want to depose the tyrant and put the rightful heir on the throne. Unfortunately for Kaye, but fortunately for us, the plot is not as simple as it sounds, not when a traitor in the king's court (Basil Rathbone) has formulated his own plan to have the jester assassinate the king, and especially not when the king's saucy daughter (Angela Lansbury) has set her sights on marrying the jester as a way to avoid having to marry a rival king with whom her father wants to forge an alliance.

Kaye is absolutely hysterical, whether he's singing and dancing a big production number with a band of midgets or jousting with a rival knight while wearing a magnetized suit of armor. Glynis Johns plays a member of Kaye's merry band with whom Kaye has fallen in love, and Mildred Natwick plays the witch Griselda, who at one point tries to help Kaye poison a rival by explaining that the pellet with the poison is in the vessel with the pestle while the chalice with the palace has the brew that is true.

Grade: A-