Catching the Milk Thief

A tramp helps himself to a farmer's milk in this knockabout Victorian comedy

A tramp helps himself to a farmer's milk in this knockabout Victorian comedy from the Yorkshire-based Bamforth stable. As is usual in early films of this kind, the thief gets his comeuppance - though the violence of the retribution seems out of all proportion to the crime. Unruly tramps were something of a staple of Victorian film comedies - not least in Bamforth's films.