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Ask a Policeman is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Marcel Varnel released in USA on 29 august 1939 with Will Hay

Ask a Policeman (1939)

Ask a Policeman
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Released in USA 29 august 1939
Length 1h23
Directed by
Genres Comedy,    Adventure,    Crime
Rating73% 3.6892253.6892253.6892253.6892253.689225

Ask a Policeman is a 1939 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel which stars Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt. The title comes from the popular music hall song Ask a Policeman. The Turnbotham Round police force are threatened with dismissal by their Chief Constable and decide to manufacture some smugglers to keep their jobs. When they encounter real smugglers, their plans begins to fall apart.

Synopsis

Will Hay plays Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot, an inept policeman, stagnating in the sleepy village of Turnbotham Round (pronounced Turnbottom), where there has been no crime for a decade. After the Chief Constable tells them that there is not enough local criminal activity to justify their station's existence, three incompetent policemen decide to start manufacturing crimes to "fiddle the figures". Dudfoot, together with Albert Brown (Graham Moffatt) and Jerry Harbottle (Moore Marriott) create a crime wave by framing motorists in a speed trap and concocting false evidence.

Actors

Will Hay

(Sergt. Dudfoot)Graham Moffatt

(Albert)Moore Marriott

(Harbottle)Peter Gawthorne

(Chief Constable)Herbert Lomas

(Coastguard)
And :
Cyril Chamberlain
Brian Worth
Patrick Aherne
Desmond Llewelyn
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