Now, the King thinks he’s an entertainer, the council thinks he’s an assassin, the Princess thinks he’s her true love, and Maid Jean thinks he still remembers the objectives of their covert operation. The problem is further complicated when a confidante of the Princess’ places the disguised clown under a spell, making him believe he is a suitor to the regal damsel and forgetting every thing else. In a clear case of “what you don’t know can definitely hurt you,” the bashful Hubert Hawkins bumbles into a tangled web of intrigue, murderous plots, and romantic intentions. And the Royal command to round up the kingdom’s most attractive wenches to present at the evening’s banquet has ensnared Maid Jean who still carries the basket concealing her babysitting charge.
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Pouting Princess Gwendolyn (Angela Landsbury) is refusing to help her father strengthen political allegiances by marrying their neighbor, a man she calls the grim and gruesome grisly Griswold (Robert Middleton). Nor is that the only problem at the palace. What the novice spy doesn’t know is that the real Giacomo was also on an undercover mission-as a hired killer for a few power-hungry conspirators planning a coup of their own. With the encouragement of his Captain, the beautiful Maid Jean (Glynis Johns), the timid man hands his childcare responsibilities to his superior, dons the harlequin’s clothes and enters the castle as The Incomparable Giacomo. Then a chance meeting with a traveling jester heading for King Roderick’s court gives Hawkins an opportunity to exchange diaper duty for undercover work. But the child’s everyday needs are attended to by Hubert Hawkins (Danny Kaye), a former carnival worker whose dreams of joining the valiant fight have been squashed by the reality of his nanny duties. Sequestered deep in the forest, the baby is protected by The Black Fox (Edward Ashley) and his band of daring rebels as they try to restore the rightful ruler. Although he and his supporters believed they had completely eliminated the previous monarch and his relatives, rumors persist of a surviving infant heir who bears the purple pimpernel (the family’s distinguished flower-shaped birthmark) on his royal posterior.
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During a black time in the medieval ages, King Roderick I (Cecil Parker) sits uneasily upon his usurped throne.