Ask a Policeman

1939
Not Rated
1h 23min

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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaThe mirthful adventures of Police Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremiah Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime wave to save their jobs - then find themse... Leggi tuttoThe mirthful adventures of Police Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremiah Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime wave to save their jobs - then find themselves involved in the real thing.The mirthful adventures of Police Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremiah Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime wave to save their jobs - then find themselves involved in the real thing.

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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
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Cyril Chamberlain

Radio Announcer
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Richard Cooper

BBC commentator
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Noel Dainton

Revenue Officer
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Desmond Llewelyn

Headless Coachman
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Dave O'Toole

Witness
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Brian Worth

Broadcasting Engineer
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The first section of the film contains an in-joke about Will Hay's real-life career. In 1937 his radio show was faded out to make time for a broadcast by the Prime Minister. Hay was furious and vowed never to broadcast again. A popular outcry led by the Daily Express forced the BBC to apologize before Hay would go back on the air. When Dudfoot's broadcast ends the same way, he says, "The BBC always fade out the best items", and when threatened with dismissal he says, "If only we could get the Daily Express behind us . . . "

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When the garage door opens 'spontaneously' the wire used to pull it open is visible.

Citazioni
Constable Jeremiah 'Jerry' Harbottle: [as Harbottle senior] When the tide runs low in the smugglers' cove, / And the 'eadless 'orseman rides above, / He drives along with his wild hallo, / And that's the time when the smugglers go in their little boats to the schooner and bring back the kegs of brandy and rum and put them all in the Devil's Cove below.

Connessioni
Referenced in James Bond: Licence to Kill - The Royal Premiere (1989)

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Polieceman's Holiday
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Music by Montague Ewing

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A comic gem

Will Hay's best-known film is the classic "Oh, Mr Porter" but this one isn't far behind. Hay is cast in his favourite role ; a seedily incompetent authority figure who conceals his uncertainty behind bluster and bombast.

This is one of those rare films where the plot is almost an intrusion ; who cares about a smuggling ring in rural England, when we can instead enjoy the antics of Hay and his cohorts, playing possibly the most inept police team in the history of law enforcement. Their attempts to set a speed trap, and then to justify their results to an irate motorist, may be the high spot of the film.