The Mystery of the Leaping Fish:

Douglas Fairbanks successfully starred in modern comedies before embarking on his better-remembered career of historical swashbucklers in the 1920s. "The Mystery of the Leaping Fish", however, isn't like his other comedies. It's his only two-reel short film, as he otherwise made...

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1. Verfasser: Israel, Robert (KomponistIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Emerson, John (RegisseurIn), Leezer, John W. (Kameramann/frau), Fairbanks, Douglas (SchauspielerIn), Love, Bessie (SchauspielerIn), Rubens, Alma (SchauspielerIn)
Format: Video Software
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Los Angeles Flicker Alley [2008]
Schriftenreihe:Douglas Fairbanks: A Modern Musketeer 1
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Zusammenfassung:Douglas Fairbanks successfully starred in modern comedies before embarking on his better-remembered career of historical swashbucklers in the 1920s. "The Mystery of the Leaping Fish", however, isn't like his other comedies. It's his only two-reel short film, as he otherwise made feature-length productions of five reels or more. It's most outrageously different, however, for its humorous portrayal of drug use. In it, Fairbanks plays a detective with a drug habit, or rather a life of drugs - a Sherlock Holmes parody; throughout the picture, he pokes himself with syringes he carries in a bandolier, when not snorting cocaine by the handful, drinking concocted cocktails, or eating gobs of opium. It gives a completely new meaning to Fairbanks' usual exuberance. Appropriately, his character's name is Coke Ennyday. Ironically, this drug-fiend detective foils a plot by smugglers to import drugs. [wlosstrk.com]
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