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Spying the Spy

Comedies • 22-Apr-1918

Amateur detective Sambo Sam sets out to round up German spies, but his bungling leads him to the Coffin Club, a fraternal organization with a morbid sense of humor just itching to have some fun at the would-be sleuth’s expense.

Tags
beheading, comedy, crime, dream sequence, ethnic stereotype, ghost, gun, mistaken identity, police, race film, short, slapstick, spy, suicide
Cast
Samuel Jacks Sambo Sam
Sam Robinson William Day
Yvonne Junior Molly Clark
Crew
Charles N. David director
J. Luther Pollard producer

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