
GB
1960
1hr 04mins
Dir: John Haggerty
Starring: Jeremy Bulloch and Joanna Horlock
A boy and his pals help catch criminals who are poaching salmon from a river near a fisheries research centre
This adventure film from the Children’s Film Foundation is based on an original story called The Lazy Salmon Mystery by Sutherland Ross. It has a scene filmed outside Buckfastleigh station in the good old days before it became part of the Dart Valley Railway (and later still the South Devon Railway). A former GWR 45xx series 2-6-2T can be seen standing in the platform in the background and some wagons are also visible in the goods yard. The film was subsequently edited in 1972 into a revised version 55 minutes in length, presumably to remove damaged sections of the original production.


