A kind young boy is conned into giving away his mother’s money on the way to the shops. This touching amateur fiction was a Newcastle & District Amateur Cinematographers Association (ACA) production, directed by Joe Clark. Credits: Joe Clark, Brenda Clark and 3 children Credit: Pennyfine Films Present Title: The Sucker Credit: with Christopher Lesley Sandra Colum And Liam A young lad sprawls in the front garden of a suburban garden reading a comic. His mother calls him over from...

A kind young boy is conned into giving away his mother’s money on the way to the shops. This touching amateur fiction was a Newcastle & District Amateur Cinematographers Association (ACA) production, directed by Joe Clark. Credits: Joe Clark, Brenda Clark and 3 children Credit: Pennyfine Films Present Title: The Sucker Credit: with Christopher Lesley Sandra Colum And Liam A young lad sprawls in the front garden of a suburban garden reading a comic. His mother calls him over from the house and asks him to go to the shops for her, handing him some money and a shopping bag. The boy skips down his street. He comes across a little girl he knows down his street and offers her a coin. The boy runs off with his shopping bag and kicks a can in the gutter as he runs along the pavement next to a main road. He finds a discarded toy car on the grass verge and puts it in his bag. A teenage girl is sitting beside the road crying, a straw basket beside her. The boy asks her what’s wrong. She wipes her tears and explains that she’s dropped her money down a drain. He looks through the drain cover and can’t see anything. He feels sorry for her and hands her his money. Three of the girl’s friends are hiding behind a hedge further up the road. They peer out. The girl walks off in the direction of her friends, whilst he makes his way back towards his home in the opposite direction, with no money left. The girl is greeted gleefully by her friends. They walk to the local newsagent S. H. Kendal. Meanwhile, the boy comes across the old can he had been kicking and doesn’t feel like kicking it anymore. The girl and her friends emerge from the shop. The boy makes his way home alone. His mother comes out onto the street as he approaches home and gestures to him to hurry up. The poor lad hands his mother a shopping bag, empty but for the toy he found. He explains but is told off by his angry mother who pushes him inside the house. Outside the newsagent, the girl and her friends are happily gorging on ice creams they bought with the boy’s money. The scam had worked. The boy is now over his mother’s knee, being smacked with a slipper for giving away the shopping money. A double exposure shows both the poor boy’s punishment and the children happily eating their ice creams. Title: The End