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The Mystery of Leaping Fish
The Mystery of Leaping Fish
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57 Ratings

THE MYSTERY OF LEAPING FISH

Directed by Christy Cabanne, John Emerson
United States, 1916
Comedy, Short

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.

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.