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 Posted:   Jun 25, 2017 - 6:22 PM   
 By:   Score Whore   (Member)

I watched this film again over the weekend. Please, can one of the soundtrack labels release a soundtrack.

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 25, 2017 - 7:55 PM   
 By:   Great Escape   (Member)

I always wondered why the Pass the Basket number never wound up in the film. My wife swears she saw it with that song in the movie as a kid but my understanding is that they never shot the sequence.

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 28, 2017 - 4:07 AM   
 By:   pp312   (Member)

Trivia: I would have to watch the film again, but I remember a Rozsa cue being tracked in early in the film (a scene in a barn, as I recall).

A scene in a tavern, I think, where the genuine jester is knocked out.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 1, 2017 - 7:05 PM   
 By:   Giacomo, KoJaJtK   (Member)

Trivia: I would have to watch the film again, but I remember a Rozsa cue being tracked in early in the film (a scene in a barn, as I recall).

A scene in a tavern, I think, where the genuine jester is knocked out.


There's no tavern scene in the movie. The moment you're thinking of is in a crofter's cottage, at the point that Maid Jean describes to Hawkins the dreadful, dark and dire consequences if he's caught impersonating the real Giacomo, the Jester.

And the cue tracked into that scene is from Rozsa's THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS, a score from which Paramount frequently culled music to patch up other composers' work (as in A PLACE IN THE SUN. Maybe Franz Waxman should've shared his Oscar with Rozsa, though it was, again, less than a minute's worth of music).

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 11, 2019 - 3:44 PM   
 By:   dave.yazbek   (Member)

The film's 60th anniversary in 2015 would have been a perfect opportunity to release a complete soundtrack. I keep my fingers crossed....

 
 Posted:   Feb 11, 2019 - 3:48 PM   
 By:   Yavar Moradi   (Member)

I would still totally buy this if someone produced it...I adore this film and its music.

Yavar

 
 Posted:   Feb 11, 2019 - 3:51 PM   
 By:   RR   (Member)

The Turner Classic Movies Film Festival showed a world premiere restoration of "The Court Jester" two or three years ago, if memory serves. I've been waiting for a Blu-Ray release ever since.

The "Hans Christian Anderson/The Court Jester" CD is one of the favorites in my collection. Nice job with it, Mr. Kimmel.

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 9, 2020 - 8:37 AM   
 By:   Rameau   (Member)

Well The Court Jester is finally getting a Blu-ray release on January 26th as part of the Paramount Presents line.

Celebrating its 65th Anniversary, Paramount’s beloved madcap musical debuts on Blu-ray, beautifully remastered from a 6K film transfer of the original VistaVision negative. In this swashbuckling comic farce, star Danny Kaye is kind-hearted entertainer Hawkins who disguises himself as the legendary king of jesters, Giacomo

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 10, 2020 - 5:26 AM   
 By:   mulan98   (Member)

Thank you for all the comments and info above.

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 10, 2020 - 8:36 AM   
 By:   John B. Archibald   (Member)

Any bonus material!
Like, pray tell, an isolated music score?

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 10, 2020 - 5:12 PM   
 By:   Panavision70   (Member)

Overture can be found on YouTube at. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB_kQfvDqqY

And, the album is on Apple Music for $7.99.

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 12, 2020 - 2:13 AM   
 By:   George Flaxman   (Member)

I prefer the "brew that is true".

 
 Posted:   Nov 12, 2020 - 4:09 PM   
 By:   Mark Mostel   (Member)

I would very much welcome a release of this score (or whatever original music was written for it).
My personal favorite of the Scharf/Kaye scores though is Hans Christian Andersen.

 
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