Connection
The Boys in Blue is a film of genre Comedy directed by Val Guest with Tommy Cannon
The Boys in Blue (1982)
If you like this film, let us know!
Add to a movie listThe Boys in Blue is a 1982 British comedy film directed by Val Guest and starring Tommy Cannon, Bobby Ball, Suzanne Danielle and Roy Kinnear. It is loosely based on the 1938 Will Hay film Ask a Policeman, which Guest co-wrote. Some policeman who have failed to make any arrests are threatened with dismissal, and begin to invent crime to justify their existence. It was the final feature film that Guest directed.
^ Waterston, Caroline. "Rock on Cannon and Ball". People. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
Synopsis
Sgt. Cannon (Tommy Cannon) and PC Ball (Bobby Ball) run the police station in the quiet town of Little Botham. When the station is threatened with closure due to a lack of crime, they decide to invent some crimes to justify their existence. When they try to steal a painting from a local rich businessman (Roy Kinnear), they accidentally stumble across a gang of real art thieves who have just stolen £1 million worth of paintings. It is up to the two bungling cops to stop them escaping with their haul.Actors
Tommy Cannon
(Sergeant Tommy Cannon)
Bobby Ball
(P.C. Bobby Ball)
Suzanne Danielle
(Kim)
Roy Kinnear
(Mr. Lloyd)
Eric Sykes
(Chief Constable)
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to The Boys in Blue
There are 31 films with the same actors, 46 films with the same director, 37123 with the same cinematographic genres, to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked The Boys in Blue, you will probably like those similar films :
The Beauty Jungle (1964)
, 1h50Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Ian Hendry, Janette Scott, Edmund Purdom, Ronald Fraser, Jean Claudio, Kay Walsh
Rating59%
While on a seaside holiday a young typist is persuaded by a local journalist to enter a beauty contest. When she wins, she decides to give up her previous career and life and take up entering the contests full-time.
Au Pair Girls (1972)
, 1h26Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Johnny Briggs, Gabrielle Drake, Elizabeth Joyce Heron, Daphne Anderson, Geoffrey Bayldon, Roger Avon
Rating49%
The film opens with four girls arriving at London Heathrow Airport. They are taken to the offices of Overseas Employment Agency which has arranged placements for them. The film then plays out the adventures of each of the four girls.
Toomorrow (1970)
, 1h35Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Olivia Newton-John, Roy Dotrice, Imogen Hassall, Margaret Nolan, Roy Marsden, Shakira Caine
Rating52%
A group of students pay their way through school by forming a pop band called Toomorrow; sonic vibrations from a special instrument called a "tonaliser" cause an extraterrestrial to abduct the group, and have them entertain the Alphoid population. According to the Internet Movie Database (IMDB.com) this movie is based on the 1967 film The Gang.
Where the Spies Are (1966)
, 1h50Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors David Niven, Françoise Dorléac, John Le Mesurier, Cyril Cusack, Eric Pohlmann, Richard Marner
Rating56%
Après qu'un agent secret britannique a été tué à Beyrouth par des communistes, le Colonel MacGillivray persuade le docteur Jason Love d'aller au Moyen-Orient pour trouver ce que cet agent avait découvert. Parce qu'il a fait un peu de renseignements pendant la guerre, Jason accepte en s'attendant à un peu d'aventure au soleil. En route pour le Liban, il rencontre un mannequin, Vikki, et décide de prendre l'avion suivant pour rester avec elle. En voyant l'avion qu'il aurait dû prendre exploser peu après le décollage, Jason se rend compte que cette mission est plus sérieuse qu'il ne le pensait. À Beyrouth, il apprend que les communistes prévoient d'assassiner le Prince Zahlouf, proche des Britanniques, dans le but de compromettre des accords sur le pétrole. Bien qu'il fasse échouer la tentative d'attentat, il est obligé de se réfugier sur le toit d'un château pour échapper à la foule en colère. Il y est secouru par un hélicoptère russe, la "colombe de la paix". Jason y retrouve Vikki. Elle essaye de le sauver mais est abattue. Jason arrive néanmoins à sauter de l'hélicoptère. Un message de MacGillivray lui propose une autre mission, mais il décline l'offre.
The Runaway Bus (1953)
, 1h18Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Comedy
Actors Frankie Howerd, Margaret Rutherford, Petula Clark, George Coulouris, Toke Townley, Terence Alexander
Rating60%
When heavy fog wreaks havoc among air travelers throughout England, outspoken Cynthia Beeston (Margaret Rutherford) - a forceful proponent of "Positive Thought" - insists on being taken from London Airport to Blackbushe Airport, where she might be able to fly to Dublin. Harassed airline employees find emergency relief coach 13 and reserve driver Percy Lamb (Frankie Howerd) - so hapless he cannot find his way around the airport, much less the roads - to transport her. She is joined by mild-mannered Henry Waterman (Toke Townley), pulp-thriller addict Janie Grey (Belinda Lee) and Ernest Schroeder (George Coulouris). To satisfy a regulation, stewardess "Nikki" Nicholls (Petula Clark) is assigned to shepherd them. Rounding out the party is airline first officer Peter Jones (Terence Alexander), who hitches a ride. Unbeknownst to most of them, robbers have stolen £200,000 worth of gold bullion from the airport bonded store and hidden the proceeds in the boot of the coach.
Life Is a Circus (1960)
, 1h24Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Circus films
Actors Oliver Reed, Shirley Eaton, Lionel Jeffries, Joseph Tomelty, Eric Pohlmann, Edwin Richfield
Rating77%
Expresso Bongo (1959)
, 1h51Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Laurence Harvey, Cliff Richard, Sylvia Syms, Yolande Donlan, Eric Pohlmann, Hermione Baddeley
Rating61%
Paul Scofield plays Johnny, a slimy, small-time music promoter and talent scout who notices teenage girls going crazy for the singing and bongo playing of talentless and seemingly idiotic Herbert Rudge (played by James Kenny). Johnny rechristens Rudge as "Bongo Herbert" and signs him to a contract that gives Johnny a 50% share of the profits. With Johnny's help, Bongo rockets to stardom. Bongo's success attracts a host of sleazy music industry types intent on exploiting him. Johnny quickly finds himself outclassed in the sleaze department as Bongo turns out to be the slipperiest slime of them all.
, 1h30Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Robin Askwith, Anthony Booth, Linda Hayden, Sheila White, Dandy Nichols, Bill Maynard
Rating48%
Like many British sex comedies of the 1970s the narrative involves a male protagonist who gets into compromising situations with a succession of women. The optimistic and inept Timothy Lea is freshly employed by his brother-in-law Sid as a window cleaner. With Sid an impending father to be, he looks to Timmy to fully 'satisfy' his customers, little realising that Timmy's accident prone ways often stretch to his sex life with his clients. Timmy bed hops from unsatisfied housewives to even a lesbian love tryst, all the while with his main eye on successful police woman, Elizabeth Radlett, who will have none of Timmy's sexual advances. He proposes as a result, much to his family's upset, unaware that Timmy's usual run of luck will affect the outcome!
Carry on Admiral (1957)
Directed by Val Guest
Genres Comedy
Actors David Tomlinson, Peggy Cummins, Joan Sims, Eunyce Gayson, A. E. Matthews, Reginald Beckwith
Rating53%
In the course of a drunken reunion, two old friends (one a junior Government minister, the other a Royal Navy officer in uniform about to take command for the first time) switch clothes before passing out. Next morning, their changed clothes result in a series of cases of mistaken identity. The film follows the efforts of each to reunite himself with his own destiny.
Miss London Ltd. (1943)
, 1h39Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Comedy, Musical
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Musical films, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Arthur Askey, Anne Shelton, Richard Hearne, Jean Kent, Ronald Shiner, Patricia Owens
Rating57%
This musical comedy pöaying in wartime London, stars Arthur Askey as Arthur Bowman alias Miss London, the name of the escort agency, he inherited from his mother. Soon he is joined by his new American partner Terry Arden (Evelyn Dall), as she inherited the other half of the Agency from her parents, who just arrived from abroad. T first thing she accomplishes is to clean up the office together with her partner.