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it's an amiable comedy with a few nice laughs, and I appreciated it most when I could detect in Kaye's quips the influence that he undoubtedly had on Woody Allen (the plot of The Court Jester even slightly foreshadows Allen's great 1975 comedy Love and Death). There's something about Danny Kaye that I find off-putting, and that, probably unfairly, put The Court Jester at a disadvantage.
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