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Mr. Spriggs Buys a Dog
(1913) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel / 448 feet
Directed by Dell Henderson

Cast: Clarence L. Barr (Clarence Barr) [Mr. Spriggs], Edward Dillon [in the police station], Kate Toncray [a woman in the police station], John T. Dillon [a man on the street], Gertrude Bambrick [a woman on the street]

Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / From a screen story by Frank B. Griffin. / Released 31 July 1913; in a split-reel with Those Little Flowers (1913). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy.

Survival status: [?] Print exists in the Museum of Modern Art film archive?

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 3 June 2010.

References: Spehr-American p. 3 : Website-IMDb.