The King's Jester (1941)
FERRUCIO TAGLIAVINI sings the glorious arias of Guiseppe Verdi's "RIGOLETTO"
Genre : Drama
Runtime : 1H 32M
Director : Mario Bonnard
Writer : Mario Bonnard, Michel Simon, Tomaso Smith, Carlo Salsa
Synopsis
Based on a Victor Hugo play, and scored with music from the later opera by Giuseppe Verdi, the film tells about a hunchbacked clown whose beautiful daughter falls in love with the lecherous king.
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