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Scenting a Terrible Crime
(1913) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel / 549 feet
Directed by (unknown)

Cast: Charles Murray [Frenchy], Tod Browning [the undertaker]

Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by E. Lynn Summers. / © 7 October 1913 by Biograph Company [LU1346]. Released 9 October 1913; in a split-reel with Never Known to Smile (1913). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Browning’s film debut.

Comedy.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Apartments - Food: Sauerkraut - Law: Enforcement: Police: Policemen - Newlyweds - Undertakers

Listing updated: 4 May 2012.

References: Skal-Browning p. 231; Spehr-American p. 3.