Danny Kaye - if you don't know him, now you do! What a tour de force - what a powerhouse performance! And the comedy works as fine as it did back then. Sometimes I hoped for a bit more breathing room on some jokes, but that's what you get here: rapid fire dialog and a lot of silliness. Don't be fooled though (no pun intended), because it can and does go dark at times. The "buy flowers for the widows" exchange is both funny and powerful at the same time.
The plot is easy to follow, the dialog sometimes not so much. And not just because of the mentioned breathing room, but with a joke that has wordplay in it ... chastice in the malice .. it's probably something different, but that was quite the tongue twisting thing to watch. I can only imagine how fun that must have been in the rehearsals or maybe even some outtakes? A very fine movie overall that may play in the middle ages, has songs in it (not as too many, so I wouldn't qualify it as a musical) and is overall just mad in all the good ways there are
The plot is easy to follow, the dialog sometimes not so much. And not just because of the mentioned breathing room, but with a joke that has wordplay in it ... chastice in the malice .. it's probably something different, but that was quite the tongue twisting thing to watch. I can only imagine how fun that must have been in the rehearsals or maybe even some outtakes? A very fine movie overall that may play in the middle ages, has songs in it (not as too many, so I wouldn't qualify it as a musical) and is overall just mad in all the good ways there are