Saw this as a kid, and never forgot the Vessel with the Pestle, the Chalice with the Palace, and the Flagon with the Dragon - now if I could just remember which one has the pellet with the poison... :)
If you haven't seen this movie, watch it. If anything, find the sword fight between Ravenhurst and Giacomo. Not only is it more comedy, it's one of the best sword fights put to screen. Basil Rathbone is a master.
I had vague memories of watching this movie as a kid. I'm 35 now and just revisited it... I was drenched in my own tears from laughter with this scene. My only regret is the movie came to an end. Danny Kaye was the King. While watching this, life couldn't possibly better be.
It all appears so effortless but the amount of work that went into this scene alone must have been staggering. Still makes us laugh - something for which we should be grateful.. Thank you.
Saw this several times as a kid thanks to 16mm reels we could check out from our metro library. I learned how to thread the reels on the 16mm projector my dad borrowed from work (before anyone had VCR's) and we'd watch this, "The Inspector General", "Knock on Wood", Basil Rathbone /Nigel Bruce "Sherlock Holmes" mysteries (that I always fell asleep to) and Phil Silvers in "1,001 Nights" among many other oldies that my dad checked out from the library on 16mm reels in big canvas bags. Fun times...
Danny Kaye excelled in playing mistaken identity films (government inspector, Walter mitty, wonder man & a lot more). This is a master class in how to play these roles. He was a naturally entertaining man eg: he once took over Russell harty's talk show in the warm up for ages, getting the audience in stitches and delaying the start by about 30 minutes. Immensely talented hilarious and by all accounts genuinely kind. He was also able to pilot multiple types of airplanes and was an expert cook of Japanese food.
Love these old movies, Danny Kaye was priceless. Gene Kelly, Fred Astair, they had such talent. No need for cursing or vulgarity, wit and charm, clever writing made them classics.
I actually wrote a scene in my latest book, where the leads watch this movie and one of them starts to wonder the same thing, only to decide that she's overthinking it.
@@swanpride If that's the case, then Griselda should be grateful that things went the way they did. Otherwise, the princess would likely have killed her.
It was explained to me that the wine was spilled from both containers and the chalice broke. Griselda then had to pour the poison down again, but this time in the flagon.
If I remember correctly this dialogue was written by Sammy Cahn. I always liked his response when asked which came first the words or the music? The cheque.
I was watching an old movie "Never Say Die" (1939) on UA-cam recently. I was surprised that the "Vessel with the pestle" routine was apparently derived from a similar routine in that movie. Although it wasn't poison in a cup, but a bullet in a gun, the similarity is striking. The routine in "Never Say Die" begins at about 1:13:43.
Many years later, in the BBC wartime sitcom " 'Allo 'Allo! ", there was a reference to this scene, albeit referring to "the pill in the till.....and if you put the drug in the jug, then there is no need to light the candle with the handle on the gateau from the château!"
I've been trying to find this film online for years; Danny Kaye's comedic timing is absolute perfection, and damn was Angela Lansbury a smokeshow back in the day. As hilarious as this scene is, I think my favourite has to be shortly after Griselda the witch hypnotizes Hubert, and he transforms from his bumbling, cowardly self to a debonair swashbuckler at a snap of the fingers... from anybody. Cut to a scene of swashbuckler Hubert making a daring entrance through the princess' window to woo her, followed by her father coming to speak with her: "If my father finds you here, he'll have you executed like that! *snap*" and now cowardly Hubert has no idea where he is, why he's there, or what's going on. We're then treated to a few minutes of Gwendolyn and King Roderick arguing back and forth, repeatedly snapping their fingers, while Danny Kaye rapidly transitions between bold and frightened in the background. He does nothing but open and close a set of curtains a few times while changing expressions, but my God is it gold.
The part starting at 3:43, with Danny Kaye constantly clanging into Robert Middleton as they both try to remember the vessel with the pestle, is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
This is a classic, loved by our family as kids and quoted many times over the years. Unfortunately, I made the mistake of rewatching the while film once. Danny Kaye was brilliant but there were silly love songs that spoiled my memory.
That's why God created VCRs, DVRs and streaming: to fast-forward through the romantic songs that brought so many comedies of the era to a screeching halt. The Marx Brothers always had some stiff falling in love and crooning about it, making the only dull parts of their movies.
The one thing I’ve always thought that could have made this scene even funnier would have been, when Danny Kay’s helmet is knocked off and everyone is gasping as if he had just been beheaded, instead of him popping his head out, his helmet should have flown back up unto his armor from the magnetism and made him look utterly invincible. 😅
Oh I get it, the knife in my grasp will end my suffering fast! It's so simple! And! If all else fails, the knight that I fight will put all this right! Couldn't be more obvious; I'm going to go die now.
@@OzeFlipper I am an ex-filmmaker who has not only watched the movie, but has done so approximately 30 to 40 times. Incidentally, I am (was) a competitive fencer, am qualified to be a fencing tournament director, and have organized and fought choreographed duels in Renaissance faires, _et al._ Believe me, I _know_ this movie -- so much so that my first concern is _not_ if a commenter is humor-challenged.
Huh. They had that word play in Princess Bride too. Hawkins: 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? Griselda: Right, but there’s been a change. They broke the chalice from the palace. Hawkins: They broke the chalice from the palace?! Griselda: And replaced it with a flagon. Hawkins: A flagon? Griselda: With the figure of a dragon. Hawkins: Flagon with a dragon. Griselda: Right. Hawkins: But did you put the pellet with the poison in the vessel with the pestle? 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! Hawkins: The pellet with the poison’s in the flagon with the dragon; the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true. Griselda: Just remember that.
Do a Google search on "mortar and pestle" for pics. The mortar is a small bowl and the pestle is a thick stick. The combo is used to grind spices, such as pepper.
I think TCM would have got to the # of takes i'm sure they rehearsed an entire afternoon or evening but I WANT TO KNOW HOW MANY TAKES & this is a great actors vocabulary speech test one I Loved practicing at & the several times I did it with a couple of girls it took me as many as 50 b 4 we ALL got it.
The vessel/chalice bit even tops "Who's On First?" for this kind of delightful silliness.
Saw this as a kid, and never forgot the Vessel with the Pestle, the Chalice with the Palace, and the Flagon with the Dragon - now if I could just remember which one has the pellet with the poison... :)
the pellet with the poison is in the chasle with the plasly just remember that. get it? got it? good.
@@scottythedawg Kills me every time... :)
They don't make movies like this anymore. Funny, smart and timeless.
Thank you for posting the ENTIRE sequence in one clip - and for actually captioning all the confusion!
SECONDED! Thanks a million for the full post.
Your welcome 😊 have it on DVD. Love the movie ❤️
@@lotje19912 *You're {This is the contraction of the words "You are".}
If you haven't seen this movie, watch it. If anything, find the sword fight between Ravenhurst and Giacomo. Not only is it more comedy, it's one of the best sword fights put to screen. Basil Rathbone is a master.
I WILL watch it, and watch it like that! (snap)
I had vague memories of watching this movie as a kid. I'm 35 now and just revisited it... I was drenched in my own tears from laughter with this scene. My only regret is the movie came to an end.
Danny Kaye was the King. While watching this, life couldn't possibly better be.
Well said.
It all appears so effortless but the amount of work that went into this scene alone must have been staggering. Still makes us laugh - something for which we should be grateful.. Thank you.
Just to keep straight faces should win them an award!
"It's so easy, I can say it"
"Well then you fight him"
Gets me every time
This never gets old 😂😂😂.
Saw this several times as a kid thanks to 16mm reels we could check out from our metro library. I learned how to thread the reels on the 16mm projector my dad borrowed from work (before anyone had VCR's) and we'd watch this, "The Inspector General", "Knock on Wood", Basil Rathbone /Nigel Bruce "Sherlock Holmes" mysteries (that I always fell asleep to) and Phil Silvers in "1,001 Nights" among many other oldies that my dad checked out from the library on 16mm reels in big canvas bags. Fun times...
Danny Kaye excelled in playing mistaken identity films (government inspector, Walter mitty, wonder man & a lot more). This is a master class in how to play these roles. He was a naturally entertaining man eg: he once took over Russell harty's talk show in the warm up for ages, getting the audience in stitches and delaying the start by about 30 minutes. Immensely talented hilarious and by all accounts genuinely kind.
He was also able to pilot multiple types of airplanes and was an expert cook of Japanese food.
Truly a Renaissance Man.
His specialty was Chinese food, having a specially built stove and kitchen at his home.
Thank you, very interesting, I did not kow that.
In fact, I come to think thatI do not really know much about this brilliant man.... hmmm....
Danny Kaye was a comic genius! ❤️
Danny Kaye....impeccable timing....one of my favourite ❤ films xx
😂😂😂This was gold. Used to love Danny Kaye's movies as a kid. And he's still funny today. RIP Maestro.
One of the funniest scenes in the movie, especially when his armor gets magnetized & he gets stuck on the hook when his horse runs away.
Thanks for the complete scene, this is still hilarious!!!
They can't do comedy this effortlessly anymore...
Yea, love the movie. Got it on DVD and watcht it many times
Oh, trust me, it was far from effortless.
@@AdamThorton True - it takes a great deal of work to make something look easy! :)
Thirty years or more since i saw this with my Mom & Dad... I've always wondered EXACTLY how the routine went... Thank God for the subtitles.
Love these old movies, Danny Kaye was priceless.
Gene Kelly, Fred Astair, they had such talent.
No need for cursing or vulgarity, wit and charm, clever writing made them classics.
great cast too 🙂
Rest Easy, Angela Lansbury 💔
thankyou! i was trying to remember her name..
can i say, she's looking good..
Great scene. Thanks for posting the entire scene and adding the subtitles. Brings back fond childhood memories.
How did breaking the Chalice from the Palace cause the poison to vanish from the Vessel with the Pestle?
You are thinking about this way too much. Just laugh and enjoy !!!
I actually wrote a scene in my latest book, where the leads watch this movie and one of them starts to wonder the same thing, only to decide that she's overthinking it.
It most likely didn't...which is the hidden joke in this. They are both brabbling to no end, but in reality, both are poisoned.
@@swanpride If that's the case, then Griselda should be grateful that things went the way they did. Otherwise, the princess would likely have killed her.
It was explained to me that the wine was spilled from both containers and the chalice broke. Griselda then had to pour the poison down again, but this time in the flagon.
One of my all-time favorite movies
I was getting into the film again, after all these years! I first saw this in the early 60s on TV.
RIP all concerned.
Always loved this movie and especially this scene. The second-best comedy routine ever, behind only "who's on first?"
If I remember correctly this dialogue was written by Sammy Cahn. I always liked his response when asked which came first the words or the music? The cheque.
Unforgettable comedic moment for the great Danny boy Kaye ❗🎶💎🎶
just terrific. Danny Kaye was a wonderful talent
Well then you fight him
Great line!
@@jimjimmyjames59 so good 😄
Excellent movie and one of my favorites when I was a child!
Classic. More talent then all the stars of today's generation.
I love this movie so much.
I love the barely restrained frustration when she tells him they broke the Chalice from the Palace.
A classic!!!hahaha
"Take that horse and put it back under that idiot!"
Beyond brilliant!!!
I love this movie and this season.the court Jester is classic!
I always found Hollywood's idea of medieval knights hilarious in old movies.
"...now out on your armor!"
What, by myself?
🤣
This scene has such a Bugs Bunny feel to it!
This was one hell of a comedy...😂😂🤣🤪🤗👍
this movie is a unique masterpiece.
Love this movie
Great scene! The knighting ceremony is amazing too!
Yea, verily yea!
@@samhopper Haha, yes!!!
Honestly, the funniest scene of all times, change my mind.
Perfect example on how not to memorise properly.
Always just focus on one option and forget the other one.
I think I caught rhis movie the first time around this scene on AMC and spent two weeks looking for a replay and watched it. It's pretty hilarious
Those were ALWAYS the COOLEST suits of armor that I've ever seen
Star trek Enterprise brought me there
...@1:51...
...The Force is strong in this one...
😮 O Jiminy ! Hilarious! Thank you so much😂
thankyou!
so great to see this long sequence 🙂 x
I was watching an old movie "Never Say Die" (1939) on UA-cam recently. I was surprised that the "Vessel with the pestle" routine was apparently derived from a similar routine in that movie. Although it wasn't poison in a cup, but a bullet in a gun, the similarity is striking. The routine in "Never Say Die" begins at about 1:13:43.
Nobody did patter better than Danny Kaye.
"...uhhhhh...just remember that." HAHAHA!
Well nice to know he survived the hustle and the bustle, getting away from this Knight with a Mace he thought he him in the Face!
No one makes real movies anymore.
Many years later, in the BBC wartime sitcom " 'Allo 'Allo! ", there was a reference to this scene, albeit referring to "the pill in the till.....and if you put the drug in the jug, then there is no need to light the candle with the handle on the gateau from the château!"
Great movie very funny
I've been trying to find this film online for years; Danny Kaye's comedic timing is absolute perfection, and damn was Angela Lansbury a smokeshow back in the day. As hilarious as this scene is, I think my favourite has to be shortly after Griselda the witch hypnotizes Hubert, and he transforms from his bumbling, cowardly self to a debonair swashbuckler at a snap of the fingers... from anybody. Cut to a scene of swashbuckler Hubert making a daring entrance through the princess' window to woo her, followed by her father coming to speak with her: "If my father finds you here, he'll have you executed like that! *snap*" and now cowardly Hubert has no idea where he is, why he's there, or what's going on. We're then treated to a few minutes of Gwendolyn and King Roderick arguing back and forth, repeatedly snapping their fingers, while Danny Kaye rapidly transitions between bold and frightened in the background. He does nothing but open and close a set of curtains a few times while changing expressions, but my God is it gold.
The part starting at 3:43, with Danny Kaye constantly clanging into Robert Middleton as they both try to remember the vessel with the pestle, is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
Rand Paul was a great actor
This is a classic, loved by our family as kids and quoted many times over the years. Unfortunately, I made the mistake of rewatching the while film once. Danny Kaye was brilliant but there were silly love songs that spoiled my memory.
That's why God created VCRs, DVRs and streaming: to fast-forward through the romantic songs that brought so many comedies of the era to a screeching halt. The Marx Brothers always had some stiff falling in love and crooning about it, making the only dull parts of their movies.
Those medieval English accents are really believable.
I still quote this hilarious passage.
👏 To the person who typed the subtitles.
Scriptwriting 101: When it's harder to say the line wrong deliberately, than it is to remember the correct way of saying it XD
The one thing I’ve always thought that could have made this scene even funnier would have been, when Danny Kay’s helmet is knocked off and everyone is gasping as if he had just been beheaded, instead of him popping his head out, his helmet should have flown back up unto his armor from the magnetism and made him look utterly invincible. 😅
5:52 Lou Bloom was here
funny danny kaye
Ha ha ha 😆 love this scene
Classic lines 😅😅😅
Awesome sauce...
4.56 reminds me of Boris Johnson - another clown left hanging.
Very good
The king seems to be suffering from a massive hangover.
Oh I get it, the knife in my grasp will end my suffering fast! It's so simple! And! If all else fails, the knight that I fight will put all this right! Couldn't be more obvious; I'm going to go die now.
Con-fus-ing!
THE MOTION IS SCEWED UP
Classic!
Was that a younger angela lansbury i saw there?
Yes it was.
EINFACH TRAUMHAFT
Ah...when movies were actually worth watching...
Danny's wife, Sylvia Fine, wrote all his songs.
4:20 How much damage did that Mark Twain story cause!🙂
😂😂😂😂❤️❤️❤️❤️😘
funny
The vessel with the pestle has the pellet with the poison, the chalice with the palace has the brew that is true. 😆
How long do you think it took to actually shoot this scene in whole without one or more of the actors cracking up? Lol
admit it, jill bearup sent you here!
Just found out there was an earlier version of this routine in an old Bob Hope movie: ua-cam.com/video/ggJHYNsFS30/v-deo.html
Love this, but why would you fail to credit the actor and the movie's name?
I know and you know, but help out the kid who doesn't and wants to.
Chalice good, vessel bad, duuh.
Wait! Oh no! You ended the sequence before we could find out if there is proof of his treachery!
All the more reason to watch the whole movie 😁
@@OzeFlipper I am an ex-filmmaker who has not only watched the movie, but has done so approximately 30 to 40 times.
Incidentally, I am (was) a competitive fencer, am qualified to be a fencing tournament director, and have organized and fought choreographed duels in Renaissance faires, _et al._
Believe me, I _know_ this movie -- so much so that my first concern is _not_ if a commenter is humor-challenged.
Okay. Try this then.
All the more reason to watch the whole movie again 😁
What about the Flagon with the Dragon?
Never mind.
lol 😂
Lou bloom
Huh. They had that word play in Princess Bride too.
Hawkins: 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?
Griselda: Right, but there’s been a change. They broke the chalice from the palace.
Hawkins: They broke the chalice from the palace?!
Griselda: And replaced it with a flagon.
Hawkins: A flagon?
Griselda: With the figure of a dragon.
Hawkins: Flagon with a dragon.
Griselda: Right.
Hawkins: But did you put the pellet with the poison in the vessel with the pestle?
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!
Hawkins: The pellet with the poison’s in the flagon with the dragon; the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.
Griselda: Just remember that.
The vessel with what? What's a pestle?
Do a Google search on "mortar and pestle" for pics. The mortar is a small bowl and the pestle is a thick stick. The combo is used to grind spices, such as pepper.
we have a mortar and pestle in the kitchen
I think TCM would have got to the # of takes i'm sure they rehearsed an entire afternoon or evening but I WANT TO KNOW HOW MANY TAKES & this is a great actors vocabulary speech test one I Loved practicing at & the several times I did it with a couple of girls it took me as many as 50 b 4 we ALL got it.