SMUGGLING "SPICY" FILMS
4* A growing .trade in unoensored films cf & "spicy" character has been ehecked in by the discovery of the ruse employed by smugglers at frontiers to get such films past the cusJonj». - • • * Film agenta showed the first few feefc of the films, which, because they ahowed only objectionable travel scenes, were passed. ■ When Viennese police reported 'that they were seizing increasing numbers of films in shadv private cinemas, -the customs control was tightened. It ivas then revealed that the "spicy" films were attached to the harmless travel films.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 49, 13 March 1937, Page 13
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91SMUGGLING "SPICY" FILMS Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 49, 13 March 1937, Page 13
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