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Dirty Work in a Laundry
Also known as A Desperate Scoundrel in the USA : {The Desperate Scoundrel}
(1915) American
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Charles Parrott (Charley Chase)

Cast: Minta Durfee, Harry McCoy, James T. Kelly, Ford Sterling, Alice Davenport, Harry Bernard, Al St. John, Joe Swickard (Josef Swickard), the Keystone Kops

The Keystone Film Company production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation. / Produced by Mack Sennett. Scenario by [?] Mack Sennett? / © 19 July 1915 by The Keystone Film Company [LP5901]. Released 19 July 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Working title: Laundry Story. Durfee injured her wrist during the filming and didn’t work for some time. [?] Completed or shipped? on 7 July 1915. The film was reedited and rereleased in the USA as A Desperate Scoundrel by W.H. Productions Company in 1918.

Comedy.

Survival Status: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive (paper print collection) [35mm paper positive], and in private film collections [8mm reduction positives (1918 A Desperate Scoundrel version)].

Keywords: Laundries - Police: Keystone Kops, Policemen

Listing updated: 17 July 2009.

References: Lahue-Kops pp. 58f, 105, 154; Lahue-Mack p. 300; Niver-Early p. 78 : ClasIm-221 p. 43.

Home video: DVD.