AFED #6: Seven Green Bottles (UK, 1975); Dir. Eric Marquis
One morning when I was at school in Epsom, circa 1989, we had a visit from an avuncular community support policeman who lectured us about the perils of delinquency. I say 'lecture', to be honest it was more of a relaxed chat and by and large we were such straight, middle-class kids there was little danger of us going astray. For my part a shoplifting incident shortly before moving to the area a few months earlier had pretty much made up my mind a criminal career didn't suit me, so he was preaching to the converted. The centrepiece of the officer's talk was a short drama produced for the Metropolitan Police some years earlier for just such educational purposes. He apologised that it was a little dated but I recall thinking even then that it was precisely that which appealed to me. A few years back I appealed on a British cinema website if anybody might help me obtain a copy, to no avail. You can imagine my delight, reader, when I discovered it was being included as ...