And I'm... kinda into Danny Kaye??
He is honestly sexy in this. He's a weirdo, for sure, and his sense of humor actually feels off, but this is a blast and I laughed out loud many times.
Vera-Ellen, who is billed here after Virginia Mayo, for reasons I cannot fathom in the least, is superb in this idiotic movie. Her dancing and singing are both aces, and she does that tap thing where she is able to tap faster than a drum solo with one foot. It's spectacular. She shares a pretty great and totally weird orientalist number with Kaye, but then stars in her own number without him – "So in Love" – and it is the best sequence in the whole film.
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