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Ask a Policeman

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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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EN
  • countryside
  • bumbling cops

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United Kingdom

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  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR29 Aug 1939
  • United KingdomGB

    • TheatricalU29 Apr 1939

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Ask a Policeman was released on 29 April 1939.

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    John Chard

    9/29/2015

    10/10

    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 Ha…

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    CinemaSerf

    11/14/2022

    7/10

    This is possibly my favourite outing for Will Hay, with this time a strong supporting cast to help him along with this daft adventure caper. He is "Sgt. Dudfoot" who along with "Albert" (Graham Moffatt) and "Harbottle" (Moore Marriot) have recently been on the radio from their crime-free village. They didn't quite think it through, though, as soon they realise that they might well have talked themselves out of a job.…

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