Glynis Johns is charming as Kaye's sweetheart but the real surprise is seeing a youthful Angela Lansbury looking like a storybook heroine with her flowing blond hair and blue eyes radiant in technicolor. In Twelfth Night, the clown Feste preaches and quotes Latin in. All in all, a thorough delight from beginning to end. been something like that of the later court jester, ' and moreover the attack of. Kaye proves his natural athletic grace and ability while Rathbone makes us yearn for the days when he was dueling Errol Flynn at Nottingham castle. The final duel between Rathbone and Kaye, involving a spell that transforms Kaye into a super-swashbuckler at the snap of a finger, is extremely well staged for both comedy and excitement. The technicolor photography is gorgeous to behold, the sets are jaw-droppingly expensive and thoroughly believable, and the lilting songs performed in clever style by Kaye and others more than compensate for any weaknesses.

The Spanish were clannish, but I wouldn't vanish / and learned every step they had planned. OF ROBIN HOOD) all try to play it straight as Kaye goes into one dizzy sequence after another. Hawkins: I started to travel to try to unravel / my mind and to find a new chance / When I got to Spain it was suddenly plain / that the field that appealed was the dance. Just sit back and enjoy while Angela Lansbury (looking very radiant and beautiful) as Gwendolyn, Mildred Natwick as Griselda and Basil Rathbone as Ravenhurst (reprising his role as Sir Guy of Gisbourne in THE ADV.

So much plotting, I won't begin to describe this medieval romp.

That is, until it switches to 'the flagon with the dragon', at which point everyone is rightfully confused. The highlight for me is the 'vessel with the pestle' tongue-twisting routine that he carries off to perfection in his own inimitable way. If you're a DANNY KAYE fan, you can't afford to miss this one.

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