Ask a Policeman (1939)

NR04/29/1939Comedy1h 23m
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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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    Will Hay

    Sergt. Dudfoot

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    Graham Moffatt

    Albert

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    Moore Marriott

    Harbottle

  4. Cast 1

    Glennis Lorimer

    Emily

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    Peter Gawthorne

    Chief Constable

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    Charles Oliver

    The Squire

  7. Cast 1

    Herbert Lomas

    Coastguard

  8. Cast 1

    Patrick Aherne

    Motorist

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    Cyril Chamberlain

    Radio Announcer

When the tide runs low in the smugglers cove... Turnbotham Round has no crime, something that becomes common knowledge after a radio programme is broadcast from the village. Upon hearing this broadcast, the top brass at Scotland Yard send word that if there is no crime there, then why employ policemen to police the village? Realising that their good lives are about to come to an end, inept coppers Dudfoot (Will Hay), Brown (Graham Moffatt) and Harbottle (Moore Marriott) set about making some arrests. What they hadn't bargained for was the uncovering of a smuggling ring and the unleashing of...

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Original LanguageEnglish 

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