Ask a Policeman
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| Ask a Policeman | |
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| Directed by | Marcel Varnel |
| Produced by | Edward Black |
| Written by | Marriott Edgar Sidney Gilliat(story) Val Guest J.O.C. Orton |
| Starring | Will Hay Graham Moffatt Moore Marriott Glennis Lorimer Peter Gawthorne Charles Oliver Herbert Lomas |
| Music by | Louis Levy |
| Cinematography | Derick Williams |
| Editing by | R.E. Dearing |
| Distributed by | Gainsborough Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 28 August 1939 |
| Running time |  83 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
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Ask a Policeman is a 1939 British comedy film starring Will Hay.
[edit] Synopsis
Will Hay plays Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot, an inept policeman, stagnating in the sleepy village of Turnbottom Round, 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.
They also leave a keg of whiskey unattended in order to frame someone as a smuggler - and then accidentally discover a real smuggling ring!
[edit] Cast
- Will Hay - Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot
- Graham Moffatt - Albert Brown
- Moore Marriott - Jerry Harbottle/Harbottle Senior
- Glennis Lorimer - Emily Martin
