News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

589

Date Released

7 Apr 1966

Date recorded

4 Mar 1966

Length of issue (in feet)

713

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Customs School
• 2. Caravan Concourse

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 2

Summary

Pathe synopsis: At the Southend Waterguard Training School officers of the anti-smuggling branch of HM Customs are learning the tricks of a forbidden trade. See how they foil the smugglers’ ploys - suitcases with false bottoms, shoes with secrets in the sole and tennis racquets with diamond caches in the handles. Customs officers also have to have a keen nose when it comes to sniffing out hidden drugs and they need their sea legs when they board ships and search coal bunkers that hide more than black diamonds and in the galleys where innocent looking potatoes can conceal hoards of treasure. You’d be lucky to get away with it...

Keywords

Crime

Locations

Southend-on-Sea; England; Essex

Written sources

Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Commentator

Wilfrid Thomas

Length of story (in feet)

269

Story extras:

Film clip

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