Undercover Jester

Earliest known poster for Undercover Jeseter.

Undercover Jester is a 1955 medieval police procedural training film starring Danny Kaye as a police forensic dramatist working undercover as a court jester.

Plot

While working undercover as a court jester, police forensic dramatist discovers that stunt man and swordmaster Crispin Glover has secretly re-written the prescription for the pellet with the poison.

But is Glover a thespian genius or a one-man neurochemistry experiment?

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Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Levity's Rainbow
• Peer Puck, Dansk Detektiv
• The Pied Piper of Mad Men
• The Secret Life of Walter Cronkite
• Why So Raw?

External links

• The Court Jester @ Wikipedia
• The Court Jester - Trailer @ YouTube
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzmnSyqv37A "The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle" @ YouTube

• Jester @ YouTube
• How dangerous was it to be a jester? - Beatrice K. Otto @ YouTube

Social media

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• Post @ Twitter (30 April 2021)