ABSTRACT
Towards the end of the Robert Paul era two new directors attracted some notice. One, Walter Haggar, was a former fairground showman whose The Salmon Poachers became the best seller (480 prints) of the period. It was a chance success and its popularity was partly due to an unorthodox twist in its plot. Two poachers are caught by the police and the story is sympathetically concerned with their escape from justice.
