In this film are illustrated the artifices used by frontier smugglers in their attempt to get goods over the frontier. In order to smuggle petroleum over they place the liquid in bottles ... See full summary
Comment on fraude à la frontière (1908) Online
In this film are illustrated the artifices used by frontier smugglers in their attempt to get goods over the frontier. In order to smuggle petroleum over they place the liquid in bottles carried by school children with lunch, but the customs officers catch on just in tune. The manner of training a dog is shown, the canine being whipped by a man in uniform, so that with a bag of smuggling goods on his back he runs away in terror at the sight of a real customs officer. The last scene shows to what extremes smugglers will go. They rig up an entire funeral cortège, with priests, pallbearers and mourners, but instead of a corpse being in the coffin, it is full of merchandise. They march slowly toward the frontier, and all goes well until they come to the post. here the alarm is given to the soldiers, and when the cortège arrives they order the coffin opened. In a moment one of the bogus priests draws a pistol and shots are swiftly exchanged. The coffin is dropped, the bogus mourners run ...