Ask a Policeman (1939)
1h 23m
Running Time
April 29, 1939Release Date
Plot.
The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremias Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime-wave to save their jobs---and then find themselves involved in the real thing.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Will Hay
Sergt. Dudfoot
Graham Moffatt
Albert
Moore Marriott
Harbottle
Glennis Lorimer
Emily
Peter Gawthorne
Chief Constable
Charles Oliver
The Squire
Herbert Lomas
Coastguard
Patrick Aherne
Motorist
J.O.C. Orton
Writer
Cyril Chamberlain
Radio Announcer
Noel Dainton
Revenue Officer
Richard Cooper
BBC commentator
Desmond Llewelyn
Headless Coachman
Marcel Varnel
Director
Dave O'Toole
Witness
Brian Worth
Broadcasting Engineer
Sidney Gilliat
Writer
Marriott Edgar
Writer
Louis Levy
Music Director
Val Guest
Writer
Derick Williams
Cinematographer
Sydney Wiles
Sound Recordist
R. E. Dearing
Editor
Clive Richardson
Original Music Composer
Alex Vetchinsky
Settings
Jack Parry
Second Unit Director of Photography
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Ask a Policeman is a 1939 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.
The plot sees Will Hay playing a policeman at the Turnbotham Round police force. The force hasn't arrested anybody in the last ten years five weeks and four days so their Chief Constable arrives to decide whether to keep or disband the force. The characters fabricate crimes in order to look useful. They manufacture some fake smuggling, but then they encounter some real smugglers. The title comes from the popular music hall song "Ask a P'liceman".
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