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Friday, July 4th, 2008
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish
In 1916 Tod Browning (Freaks, Dracula, …) wrote a weird little movie, “Mystery of the Leaping Fish”. Douglas Fairbanks starred as Coke Ennyday, a parody of Sherlock Holmes. The story is so wacky I won’t even try and describe it.
Just go with it (unless you’ve never seen a silent movie before).
Put on YouTube by MaidMarian, [...]
