
He lives for a sigh, he dies for a kiss, he lusts for the laugh, ha! He never walks when he can leap! He never flees when he can fight (thud) oop! He swoons at the beauty of a rose. Hubert Hawkings (Danny Kaye): What manner of man is Giacomo? Ha ha! I shall tell you what manner of man is he. Hubert Hawkings (Danny Kaye): I am Giacomo, a lover of beauty and a beauty of a lover. I … I … hm? What? What’s that? All I heard was that the Duchess had a siege of rheumatism. So the Duke got the Duchess, the Duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke! Now the Duke ducked, the Doge dodged, and the Duchess didn’t. Hubert Hawkings (Danny Kaye): Yes! The Duchess dove at the Duke just when the Duke dove at the Doge. There they were in the dark the Duke with his dagger, the Doge with his dart, Duchess with her dirk. Hubert Hawkings (Danny Kaye): Oh, they all did, sire. When the Doge did his duty and the Duke didn’t, that’s when the Duchess did the dirt to the Duke with the Doge. Hubert Hawkings (Danny Kaye): Oh, it’s very simple, sire.

Eh, uh, when the Doge does his duty to the Duke, that is. Hubert Hawkings (Danny Kaye): Well, uh, the Doge did what the Doge does. Hubert Hawkings (Danny Kaye): The Doge do?

Hubert Hawkings(Danny Kaye): Oh, the Doge! Hubert Hawkings(Danny Kaye): Eh’¦ the Duke do? Hubert Hawkings (Danny Kaye): The pellet with the poison’s in the flagon with the dragon the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true. 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! Hubert Hawkings (Danny Kaye): But did you put the pellet with the poison in the vessel with the pestle? Hubert Hawkings (Danny Kaye): Flagon with a dragon. Hubert Hawkings (Danny Kaye): They broke the chalice from the palace? But there’s been a change: they broke the chalice from the palace! Hubert Hawkings (Danny Kaye): 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? Hubert Hawkings (Danny Kaye): A jester unemployed is nobody’s fool! Hubert Hawkings (Danny Kaye): Gri-who-lda? Hubert Hawkings (Danny Kaye): Whogus the Whatsler? King: You spent some time in the Italian court? 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.įeatures Kaye's famous "Pellet with the Poison" routine.Funny movie quotes from The Court Jester (1956), starring Danny Kaye, Glynnis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansburyįunny movie quotes from ‘ The Court Jester‘, one of Danny Kaye’s best known, and funniest, movies 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.

Maid Jean (Glynis Johns), one of the rebels, meets a man en route to the Castle who is to be Roderick's new jester. 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.
