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Lord Liaden Posted July 16, 2023 Report Share Posted July 16, 2023 (edited) Basil Rathbone vs Tyrone Power A double was used for Power for the most difficult passes. Rathbone needed no double, he was a world-class fencer. Edited July 16, 2023 by Lord Liaden Cancer and tkdguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted July 16, 2023 Report Share Posted July 16, 2023 As LL mentioned, Basil is a world-class fencer. Danny Kaye isn't -- but was such a quick study at fencing (and incredibly skilled at mimicking others in general) that, in any shot where you don't see Basil Rathbone's face, Kaye is actually fighting a fencing master who was hired to be Rathbone's double. Rathbone had been an expert fencer since childhood, but he was twenty years Kaye's senior and couldn't keep up in a couple of the scenes. The fencing master himself, Ralph Faulkner, is said to have told Kaye to take it easy on him! Lord Liaden and mattingly 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted July 16, 2023 Report Share Posted July 16, 2023 (edited) At the time The Court Jester was filmed Rathbone would have been 62 or 63. But he did help train Kaye for the fencing scenes, and praised him as a better natural fencer than Tyrone Power or Errol Flynn. BTW Basil was already in his late forties when he shot The Mark of Zorro. Edited July 16, 2023 by Lord Liaden Cygnia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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