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6.2
/10
59 Ratings

THE MYSTERY OF THE LEAPING FISH

Directed by John Emerson, Christy Cabanne
United States, 1916
Comedy, Short, Silent
  • 2626 minutes

Synopsis

In this unusually broad comedy for Fairbanks, the acrobatic leading man plays Coke Ennyday, a cocaine-shooting detective parody of Sherlock Holmes given to injecting himself with cocaine from a bandolier of syringes worn across his chest.
(Also known as The Detective.)

Synopsis

In this unusually broad comedy for Fairbanks, the acrobatic leading man plays Coke Ennyday, a cocaine-shooting detective parody of Sherlock Holmes given to injecting himself with cocaine from a bandolier of syringes worn across his chest.
(Also known as The Detective.)