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The Mystery Of The Leaping Fish 1916

Douglas Fairbanks. Tod Browning. B&W silent film with music score - full feature.


From imdb:
Coke Ennyday, the scientific detective, divides his own time in periods for "Sleep", "Eat", "Dope" and "Drink"...


"What an amazing piece of history! Most people don't know that, yes, cocaine was in extremely wide recreational use in the years between 1900-1925. In fact it was something of an epidemic in the latter years of that period. The facts that hospitals were swamped with cocaine addicts and that as much as a 1/5 of some city populations were registered as addicted are lost to common historical knowledge."

Douglas Fairbanks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Fairbanks
bluecliffsays...

Again from imdb

Fairbanks, who was a coke addict in real life, stars in this film. It's funny simply for the fact that it's an unapologetic pro-drug comedy, though if you don't find that kind of thing funny, you won't find this movie interesting at all. In fact it seems like the movie was made on drugs, the titles go by so quickly that you'd have to be a member of Mensa just to read them without pausing. The plot is nonexistent, it's just a series of cheap drug gags, in the vein of Cheech & Chong had they lived in 1915.

ravensays...

Coke was not only a prevalent recreational drug... it was used in tons and tons of products anyone could buy at the store... tonics, health syrups, etc... Coca Cola... people were giving it to their kids, or taking it for headaches... of course, laudanum, and heroin were also widely available for the same reasons... Bayer, the company that makes aspirin today, made its first big money by selling heroin... in post WWI Europe, you can imagine there was a big demand for this.

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